Description: A literature course designed to teach students how to read and write about literature by gaining a basic understanding of plot, character, and setting, with an emphasis on the short novel. Basic analysis of poetry is also included in this course. The first semester of a two-semester course.
Recommended Age: Ideal for 9th - 11th grade but also appropriate for older students.
Content Covered: A representative sampling of classic novels by great authors such as Steinbeck's The Pearl, Melville's Billy Budd, Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, Gogol's Overcoat, Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Desinovich, Faulkner's The Bear, Joyce's The Dead, Checkhov's Ward No. 6, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Katherine Ann Porter's Old Mortality, Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, and others.
Course Material: Most of the books for this course are available online in inexpensive paperback editions. Any material costs to the course are not included in the course price.
Instructor: Dr. James Taylor
Class Chat Time: Thurs. 2:00 pm EST
High School Course Credit: Full semester high school credit. Taking the Fall and Spring semester courses would constitute a full year credit.

Enroll in English I/II (The Novel), Fall 2010-Spring 2011 ($449.95 for the year)