Welcome to your AP Lit blog for 2013-14. This year your blog will focus on your responses to narratives from the Bible
and classical mythology.
In order to enhance your familiarity with classical and
Biblical stories to which literature often alludes, you will read the assigned
stories using the links provided on the HCHS Media Center website or your own
copy of the Bible and Edith Hamilton’s Mythology. After reading each story, submit a blog post
of 150-300 words every week by 11:00 Tuesday evening. Your post will include a summary of the story,
any analysis you care to make, and a response to the story that may be spurred
by the personal connections listed below. You may also want to describe other
versions of this story you have encountered.
Your post will receive bonus points for including unique
visuals to enhance our experience of your post.
If you copy an image, be sure to cite it.
Blog post due dates
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Sources for Allusions
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Personal Connection
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9/3/13
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The Garden of Eden (Genesis Chapters 1-3)
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Your origins
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9/10/13
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Pandora’s box
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Evil you’d like to squelch
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9/17/13
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Cain and Abel
(Genesis Chapter 4)
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Conflict with siblings
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9//24/13
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Odysseus and the Trojan Horse
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Your dream journey
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10/1/13
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Noah and the Flood (Genesis Chapters 6-9)
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An animal that fascinates you/Will the world end in fire
or ice?
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10/8/13
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Pygmalian and Galatea
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A character you would like “brought to life”
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10/15/13
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Tower of Babel
(Genesis 11)
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Your next language or
your stairway to heaven
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10/22/13
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Daphne and the Laurel Wreath
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Attitudes toward eternal youth
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10/29/13
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Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18-19)
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Unfair punishment/impenitence
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11/5/13
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Echo and Narcissus
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A narcissist you abhor v. an altruistic person you
admire
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11/12/13
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Abraham and Isaac
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True sacrifice
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11/19/13
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Jason and the Golden Fleece
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Stories of love and revenge
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12/3/13
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Jacob and Esau
(Genesis 25)
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What is your birthright?
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12/10/13
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Cupid and Psyche
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The best love story ever
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1/7/14
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Joseph, his Brothers, and the Coat of Many Colors
(Genesis 37)
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Your best loved garment
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1/14/14
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The Birth of Christ
(Luke 1-2)
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Your birth narrative/best birthday
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1/21/14
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Rescue of the Child Moses
(Exodus 1-2)
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Adoption
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1/28/14
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The Burning Bush
(Exodus 3)
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Fire/hallucination
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2/4/14
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The Passover (Exodus 12)
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Liberation
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2/11/14
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The Red Sea (Exodus 14)
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Miracles
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2/18/14
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Midas and the Golden Touch
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The allure of gold
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2/25/14
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Arachne and Athene
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Spiders/the webs we weave
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3/4/14
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Daedalus and Icarus
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Obedience/risk
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3/11/14
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Orpheus and Eurydice
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Your music
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3/18/14
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Paris and the Golden Apple
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Divine food
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3/25/14
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Book of Ruth (Bible)
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Interracial/cultural relationships
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4/8/14
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Perseus and Medusa
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Hair
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4/15/14
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Jesus and Lazarus
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Resurrection
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4/22/14
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Pilate and Jesus
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Judgment
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4/29/14
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The Agony of Christ
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Agonizing moments at HCHS you have survived
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