We Are Family: The Bonds of Humanity

• What makes us who we are?

• Why should we read about characters from other places and other times?

• What can we learn about ourselves from others?

• What is necessary to create a bond between people?

• What is our responsibility to others?

• When, if ever, should we put our own needs above the needs of others?

• Why is human connection important?

• Is it important to be remembered?

• What role does faith play in our humanity?

POETRY:

• • Arnold, Matthew - "Dover Beach"

  • Auden, W. H. - "Musée des Beaux Arts"

  • Byron, Lord - "She Walks in Beauty" 

  • Donne, John - "Meditation 17"

  • Donne, John - "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

  • Gray, Thomas - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"

  • Heaney, Seamus - "Digging"

  • Herrick, Robert - "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" 

  • Keats, John - "Bright Star"

  • Keats, John - "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

  • Shakespeare - Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage...")

  • Tennyson - "Ulysses"

  • Thomas, Dylan - "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"