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	Sources for Allusions	Personal Connection
9/3/13	The Garden of Eden (Genesis Chapters 1-3)	Your origins
9/10/13	Pandora’s box	Evil you’d like to squelch
9/17/13	Cain and Abel (Genesis Chapter 4)	Conflict with siblings
9//24/13	Odysseus and the Trojan Horse	Your dream journey
10/1/13	Noah and the Flood (Genesis Chapters 6-9)	An animal that fascinates you/Will the world end in fire or ice?
10/8/13	Pygmalian and Galatea	A character you would like “brought to life”
10/15/13	Tower of Babel (Genesis 11)	Your next language or  your stairway to heaven
10/22/13	Daphne and the Laurel Wreath	Attitudes toward eternal youth
10/29/13	Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Genesis 18-19)	Unfair punishment/impenitence
11/5/13	Echo and Narcissus	A narcissist you abhor v. an altruistic person you admire
11/12/13	Abraham and Isaac	True sacrifice
11/19/13	Jason and the Golden Fleece	Stories of love and revenge
12/3/13	Jacob and Esau (Genesis 25)	What is your birthright?
12/10/13	Cupid and Psyche	The best love story ever
1/7/14	Joseph, his Brothers, and the Coat of Many Colors (Genesis 37)	Your best loved garment
1/14/14	The Birth of Christ (Luke 1-2)	Your birth narrative/best birthday
1/21/14	Rescue of the Child Moses (Exodus 1-2)	Adoption
1/28/14	The Burning Bush (Exodus 3)	Fire/hallucination
2/4/14	The Passover (Exodus 12)	Liberation
2/11/14	The Red Sea (Exodus 14)	Miracles
2/18/14	Midas and the Golden Touch	The allure of gold
2/25/14	Arachne and Athene	Spiders/the webs we weave
3/4/14	Daedalus and Icarus	Obedience/risk
3/11/14	Orpheus and Eurydice	Your music
3/18/14	Paris and the Golden Apple	Divine food
3/25/14	Book of Ruth (Bible)	Interracial/cultural relationships
4/8/14	Perseus and Medusa	Hair
4/15/14	Jesus and Lazarus	Resurrection
4/22/14	Pilate and Jesus	Judgment
4/29/14	The Agony of Christ	Agonizing moments at HCHS you have survived