World Literature and Language
High School Course
From the foundations of words to the basis for our greatest stories, this course is built on literature and language that reflect a shared human experience. Explore how our ideas and values are expressed through myths, figurative language, grammatical usage, and the literary works of well-known poets and story-tellers from early civilizations through the 20th century.
This High School Course is also offered as part of the General Online Diploma program.
Credits: 1 Units
Course ID: ENG04
Course Area: English
Course Type: General
Study Method: Online
Course Outline:
- Unit 1:
- Lesson 1: Building words from their Greek roots
- Lesson 2: Building words from their Latin roots
- Lesson 3: World mythology and the epic
- Lesson 4: The hero's journey
- Lesson 5: The king arrives
- Lesson 6: Beowulf and Grendel
- Lesson 7: Beowulf and Grendel's mother
- Lesson 8: Beowulf and the dragon
- Lesson 9: Essay writing strategies
- Lesson 10: Writing about literature
- Unit 2:
- Lesson 11: Understanding poetry: the Elizabethan sonnet
- Lesson 12: Writing about poetry
- Lesson 13: Life of Shakespeare
- Lesson 14: Famous quotations
- Lesson 15: Hamlet, Act I
- Lesson 16: Hamlet, Act II
- Lesson 17: Hamlet, Act III
- Lesson 18: Hamlet, Act IV
- Lesson 19: Hamlet, Act V
- Lesson 20: Hamlet film analysis
- Unit 3:
- Lesson 21: Poetry around the world
- Lesson 22: The short story
- Lesson 23: Guy de Maupassant
- Lesson 24: Franz Kafka
- Lesson 25: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Lesson 26: Haruki Murakami
- Lesson 27: Yusuf Idris
- Lesson 28: The Americans
- Lesson 29: Edgar Allan Poe
- Lesson 30: Ernest Hemingway
- Unit 4:
- Lesson 31: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Lesson 32: Amy Tan
- Lesson 33: Sandra Cisneros
- Lesson 34: Dystopian literature
- Lesson 35: Brave New World Chapters 1-3
- Lesson 36: Brave New World Chapters 4-6
- Lesson 37: Brave New World Chapters 7-9
- Lesson 38: Brave New World Chapters 10-12
- Lesson 39: Brave New World Chapters 13-15
- Lesson 40: Brave New World Chapters 16-18
Items Provided by Students:
Books
- 40 Short Stories : A Portable Anthology, 2nd edition
(Beverly Lawn)
