HIGH SCHOOL AMERICAN LITERATURE

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In American Literature, the student continues to analyze literature based upon the five elements of plot, setting, theme, character, and style. The student studies great classic works from each period as well as the authors that have most shaped our literary heritage. Class papers and discussion focus on learning to evaluate the characters and themes of each work, with a special emphasis on comparing the work with biblical ideas and principles. We also gain insight into the specific characteristics of the national American identity including what Americans value, their strengths, and their weaknesses. As in every year of the RGES literature program from grades 6 through 12, we also include a play from Shakespeare.

Zoom meetings/discussions for American Literature will be odd weeks.

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In American Literature, the student continues to analyze literature based upon the five elements of plot, setting, theme, character, and style. The student studies great classic works from each period as well as the authors that have most shaped our literary heritage. Class papers and discussion focus on learning to evaluate the characters and themes of each work, with a special emphasis on comparing the work with biblical ideas and principles. We also gain insight into the specific characteristics of the national American identity including what Americans value, their strengths, and their weaknesses. As in every year of the RGES literature program from grades 6 through 12, we also include a play from Shakespeare.

Zoom meetings/discussions for American Literature will be odd weeks.

In American Literature, the student continues to analyze literature based upon the five elements of plot, setting, theme, character, and style. The student studies great classic works from each period as well as the authors that have most shaped our literary heritage. Class papers and discussion focus on learning to evaluate the characters and themes of each work, with a special emphasis on comparing the work with biblical ideas and principles. We also gain insight into the specific characteristics of the national American identity including what Americans value, their strengths, and their weaknesses. As in every year of the RGES literature program from grades 6 through 12, we also include a play from Shakespeare.

Zoom meetings/discussions for American Literature will be odd weeks.

Required Course Materials:

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings