The Class I Wish I Could Take, Then Teach (A Personal Odyssey, etc.)
It would take one school year, perhaps, beginning in September and ending Bloomsday, June 16. It would include but four works, ending with a fifth, composed by the students, for the students. And the reading list would encompass an odyssey–literally–through literature and the various takes authors have had on the Greek story since Homer.
The Odyssey (Homer)
Ulysses (Alfred Lord Tennyson)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Cold Mountain (Charles Frazier)
…and perhaps, at the end, the fantasy-like quest with a Wagner-like and Scandinavian spin: The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkein). With or without it, I think it’s a win-win.