2-Semester Course
Course Content Provided by Edmentum
This course immerses students in novels, plays, poems, and short stories from various periods. Read and write daily, using a variety of multimedia and interactive activities, interpretive writing assignments, and class discussions to assess and improve skills and knowledge. The course places special emphasis on reading comprehension, structural and critical analysis of written works, literary vocabulary, and recognizing and understanding literary devices. The equivalent of an introductory college-level survey class, this course prepares students for the AP exam and for further study in creative writing, communications, journalism, literature, and composition.
Semesters 1 and 2: Required materials
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 6th ed. Margaret Ferguson et al, eds. (W.W. Norton, 2018).
ISBN-10: 0393679020 / ISBN-13: 97803936790210
Acceptable alternate: 5th ed. (2005). ISBN 10: 0393979202
Acceptable alternate: 4th ed. (1996). ISBN-10: 0393968200
The Story and Its Writer, 10th ed. Ann Charters (Bedford/St. Martins, 2018).
ISBN-10: 1319105602 / ISBN-13: 9781319105600
Acceptable alternate: 9th ed. (2014). ISBN-10: 1457665557
Acceptable alternate: 8th ed. (2010). ISBN-10: 0312596231
Semester 1: Required materials
Hedda Gabler. Henrik Ibsen (Dover, 1990).
ISBN-10: 0486264696 / ISBN-13: 9780486264691
Other editions acceptable.
A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2004).
ISBN-10: 0811216020 / ISBN-13: 9780811216029
Other editions acceptable.
Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston (Harper, 2006).
ISBN-10: 0060838671 / ISBN-13: 9780060838676
Other editions acceptable.
Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare. Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine, eds.
(Washington Square Press, 1993).
ISBN-10: 0743482778 / ISBN-13: 9780743482776
Other editions acceptable
Semester 2: Required materials
The Great Gatsby. F. Scott Fitzgerald (Scribner, 1994).
ISBN-10: 0743273567 / ISBN-13: 9780743273565
Other editions acceptable.
Ebook available online: https://www.openrightslibrary.com/the-great-gatsby-ebook/
Annie John. Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1985).
ISBN-10: 0374525102 / ISBN-13: 9780374525101
Other editions acceptable.
Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte. Michael Mason, ed. (Penguin, 2006).
ISBN-10: 0141441143 / ISBN-13: 9780141441146
Other editions acceptable.