World History: Journey Across Time

Unit 1: Early Civilizations

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Hollywood and the Pits by Cherylene Lee
To the Foot from Its Child by Pablo Neruda
A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury
The Tucson Zoo by Lewis Thomas
from Gilgamesh: The Death of Humbaba by Anonymous
The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe from the Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Death of Enkidu: from the Epic of Gilgamesh translated by N. K. Sandars
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
Ozymandias / Ode to the West Wind / To a Skylark by Percy Bysshe Shelley
from The Immortality of Writers / So small are the flowers of Seamu translated by Ezra Pound and Noel Stock
Half a Day by Naguib Mahfouz
The Boy Who Lived with the Bears by Joseph Bruchac
The Force of Luck by Rudolfo A. Anaya
from Genesis / Psalm 23 from the King James Bible
A House for Us by Etidal Osman
Genesis 6-9: The Flood: from the Tanakh
The Sound of Birds at Noon by Dahlia Ravikovitch translated by Chana Bloch and Ariel Bloch