Enjoy a great selection of America’s finest
writers in this powerful curriculum designed with critical thinking
skills and biblical worldview. Students will enjoy beloved classics
while developing vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills.
A well-crafted presentation of whole-book or whole-work selections
from the major genres of classic literature (prose, poetry, and drama),
this course has 34 chapters representing 34 weeks of study, with an
overview of narrative background material on the writers, their
historical settings, and worldview.
The rich curriculum’s content is infused with critical thinking
skills, and an easy-to-use teacher’s guide outlines student objectives
with each chapter and provides a course calendar and the answers to the
assignments and weekly exercises. Each chapter has five lessons with
daily concept-building exercises, warm-up questions, and guided readings
The final lesson of the week includes the weekly exam, as well as
essays developed through the course of that week’s study, chosen by the
educator and student to personalize the coursework for the individual
learner.
Part of a series of 1-year, high school-level literature courses,
this curriculum can be taught independently of the series or in sequence
with author James Stobaugh’s other literature classes. It is also
designed to work in conjunction with Stobaugh’s high school history
curriculum and can be taught alongside his American history course.