Sally forth! There’s more GOTHTOBER on the horizon!

We’ve already gone mad with Poe and paid tribute with Bradbury! Now it’s time to see what the Southern Gothic has to offer!

Click here to access “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner!

We’ve once again stumbled upon the most wondrously terrifying and literary time of the year – GOTHTOBER!

Let’s get things started by acquainting ourselves with Edgar Allan Poe, a figure some see as a founding father of American horror! To do this, we will read Jess Nevins’ “Reality as a Gross Deception,” and Poe’s classic “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

[Reality as a Gross Deception]
[The Fall of the House of Usher]

AP Literature students — now that we’ve read Brave New World, it’s time to consider just how prophetic the novel is or isn’t!

To jump-start this examination, we are going to read a chapter from Brave New World Revisited, Huxley’s own reflection on how much the world had moved towards his dark vision of the future during the twenty-seven years since his novel’s publication. Please read/annotate this book’s final entry — “What Can Be Done?” — and consider how Huxley’s original novel and self-reflective companion can be used to analyze our society in 2015.

AP Language students – let’s continue our examination of “The Individual v. Society” by reading about a contemporary example!

Over the course of this glorious long weekend, please read Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets!