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"