Covers Puritanism to Realism (1630 – Present) and includes The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, The Scarlet Letter, Walden, Billy Budd, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Red Badge of Courage, Ethan Frome, A Farewell to Arms, Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Unvanquished, The Pearl, The Emperor Jones, The Little Foxes, The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible, A Separate Peace, Cold Sassy Tree, andThe Chosen.

Customer Reviews

 
Susan C. from Indiana wrote the following on 08/12/2007:
What follows is the reading list for the senior high level of James Stobaugh's American Literature course. These additional texts are needed for the course and must be obtained separately: Religious Affections (Jonathan Edwards), The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Benjamin Franklin), Walden (Henry David Thoreau), Billy Budd (Herman Melville), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Frederick Douglass), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain), Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane), Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton), A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston), The Unvanquished (William Faulkner), The Pearl (John Steinbeck), The Emperor Jones (Eugene Gladstone O'Neill), The Little Foxes (Lillian Hellman), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), The Crucible (Arthur Miller), Cold Sassy Tree (Olive Ann Burns), The Chosen (Chaim Potok). It is also "strongly suggested" that students complete additional reading during the summer before beginning this American Lit. course: Confessions (Augustine), Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), Tragedy of Faust (Goethe), Iliad (Homer), Odyssey (Homer), Cry the Beloved Country (Paton,) War and Peace (Tolstoy), Aeneid (Virgil). Happy Reading!

 
Kara S. from Fort Smith, AR wrote the following on 12/20/2006:
Meaty, meaty, meaty! The Skills for Literary Analysis course, just like the others in the Literature Critical Thinking series, is a full serving of reading, discussing, thinking, and writing. This is one of the best sources I’ve found for emphasizing the process of digging in deeply to understand the literature. Adding to that the regular task of writing, there is no way that a student can fail to improve their ability to compose a thoughtful essay. I would suggest that this would be especially successful for a student who already enjoys reading. Teacher prep is limited mostly to reviewing the literature selections. However, be prepared for plenty of discussion time concerning Christian worldview and literary themes. I also had the dreaded chore of being held accountable for editing and grading compositions promptly, not something I’ve ever done before. (A growth process for both mom and student, hmmm?) The teacher’s manual contains all the info you need, plus examples of good compositions on the topics suggested. That alone gave me the courage to tackle writing when it had been neglected for too long. The author suggests this curriculum is suitable for seventh grade and up, and I think it would be easy to adapt for use by several children of differing ages/abilities. Each lesson (about a week’s worth) offers essays for analyzing the literary piece, Biblical application, and a challenge essay. Younger students may only write one of those per week, while an older sibling might do two and outline the third. I think there is plenty of flexibility to go around. The books are non-consumable - practically a requirement at our home! Have on hand a good thesaurus and a grammar handbook for those editing days. All in all, for about forty dollars and a library card for the classic literature, you get a full year of high quality English. Not bad!