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HIGH SCHOOL LITERATURE |
Listed
below are the courses that are available for high school literature with the
content material that will be studied.
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INTRO TO LITERATURE |
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AMERICAN LITERATURE |
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5 CREDITS |
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5 CREDITS |
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--Beginnings
of the American Tradition To 1776 |
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--Plot
and Structure: |
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John Smith; William Bradford |
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Development and Organization of Stories |
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--The
Revolutionary Period (1760-1800) |
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--Characters:
The People in Fiction |
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Thomas Paine; Benjamin Franklin |
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--Point
of View: The Position or Stance |
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--First
Harvest (1800-1849) |
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of the Narrator or Speaker |
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--Setting:
The Background of Place, Objects, |
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--The
Flowering of |
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and Culture in Stories |
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Ralph W. Emerson; Herman Melville |
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--Style:
The Words that Tell the Story |
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--A
House Divided and Restored (1860-1900) |
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--Tone:
The Expression of Attitudes in Fiction |
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Walt Whitman; Chief Joseph |
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--Symbolism
and Allegory: |
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--Realism
and Naturalism 1890-1914) |
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Keys to Extended Meaning |
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Stephen Crane; Willa Cather |
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--Theme:
The Meaning and the Message |
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--Literature
in Modern |
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in Fiction |
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Katherine A. Porter; William Faulkner |
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II.
Reading and Writing About Poetry |
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--Modern
Poetry |
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--Character
and Setting: Who, What, Where, |
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Robert Frost; Langston Hughes |
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and When in Poetry |
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--Modern
Nonfiction |
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--Words:
The Building Blocks of Poetry |
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Amy Tan; Richard Wright |
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--Imagery:
The Poem’s Link to the Senses |
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--Drama |
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--Rhetorical
Figures: Metaphor and Simile |
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William Shakespeare |
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--Tone:
The Creation of Attitude in Poetry |
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--Prosody:
Sound, Rhythm, and Rhyme in |
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Poetry |
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--Form:
The Shape of the Poem |
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--Symbolism
and Allusion: Windows to a |
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Wide Expanse of Meaning |
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--Myth:
Systems of Symbolic Allusion |
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-- in
Poetry |
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--Meaning:
Idea and Theme in Poetry |
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III.
Drama |
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--William
Shakespeare |
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BRITISH LITERATURE |
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WORLD LITERATURE |
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5 CREDITS |
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5 CREDITS |
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--The
Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066) |
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--The
Ancient East |
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Beowulf;
Bede |
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Genesis Creation |
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--The
Medieval Period (1066-1485) |
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Akhenaton’s "Hymn to the Sun" ; Psalms |
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Geoffrey Chaucer; Everyman |
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--The
Classical World |
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--The
Renaissance (1485-1660) |
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Plato; Thucydides; Ovid |
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Francis
Bacon; Edward Spenser; John Milton |
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--The
Middle Ages |
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--The
Restoration and Eighteenth Century |
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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(1660-1798) |
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--The
Renaissance |
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Samuel Johnson; William Blake |
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Petrarch; Machiavelli |
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--The
Romantic Age (1798-1832) |
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--Neoclassicism |
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William
Wordsworth; Lord Bryon; John Keats |
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Voltaire; La Fontaine |
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--The
Victorian Age (1832-1900) |
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--Romanticism
and Realism |
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Alfred Tennyson; Robert Browning |
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Faust; Hugo;
Maupassant |
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Elizabeth Browning; Charles Dickens |
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--Modernism |
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--The
Modern Age |
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Chekhov; Joyce; Kafka |
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Katherine Mansfield; George Orwell |
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--Poetry |
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--Poetry |
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--Drama |
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Wilfred Owen; William B. Yeats; T. S. Eliot |
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William Shakespeare |
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--Drama |
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William Shakespeare |
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