High School American Literature Courses
A Beka American Literature - $25.50 (Teacher Guide not
included)
The highlights of American literature that have thrilled readers
through the years are included in this enjoyable text for eleventh
grade. The broad study of various types of literature helps students
to love and appreciate the literature of our country. Authors include
Irving, Cooper, Whittier, Clemens, Frost, Thurber, and many others.
Transcendentalism and the literary trends of the twentieth century are
not simply accepted as "art" but are evaluated in light of the
Scriptures for the students' edification. America's great preachers,
hymn writers, statesmen, and Bible scholars are given their rightful
place in American literature.
American Literature Since 1865
- Free
Online syllabus by University of Virginia professor Stephen Railton.
Includes a listing of text, weekly assignments, and online references.
American Passages: A Literary Survey -
Free
A 16-part American literature course. The video programs, print
guides, and Web site place literary movements and authors within the
context of history and culture. The course takes an expanded view of
American literary movements, bringing in a diversity of voices and
tracing the continuity among them. The materials, which are
coordinated with the Norton Anthology of American Literature, can be
used as the basis of a one or two-semester college-level course or for
teacher professional development.
Core Knowledge American Literature College Course Outline
- Free
This course will survey American literature from the mid-Eighteenth
Century to the post-World War II period. It is designed to prepare
aspiring teachers to teach American literature in elementary and
middle schools, and conceived with particular reference to the Core
Knowledge curriculum for grades K-8. Readings will include poems,
novels, essays, autobiographies, short stories, social commentaries,
political tracts, and philosophy, originating in different regions and
social settings across the country. Some works are chosen from their
historical importance, others for their thematic insight, others for
their aesthetic virtues. Taken together, they form a rich collection
of imaginative and critical writing, composed by former slaves and
United States Presidents, by immigrants and expatriates, by Harvard
professors and unknown spinsters.
Everyday Education: Excellence in Literature -
$29.00
American Literature is a college-preparatory literature survey
course. Focus works, including novels, short stories, poems, and
drama, have been selected for literary quality, and for their place in
the historical development of literature. Context readings provide
background information about the author, the historical period, and
the literary and artistic context of the focus work. Students will
gain an understanding of the development of American literature and
will practice the skills of close literary analysis through essays,
approach papers, and other evaluative writing.
The Gold Book: American Literature (High School)
- $18.00
The Gold Book - American Literature includes 36 weekly
lessons similar in format to the other editions of the
Learning Language Arts Through Literature series. Written in
conversational form, with story summaries and complete
answers provided for the discussion questions, this book is
easy for any teacher to use. Information has been interwoven
into the lessons so that the student becomes familiar with
famous American authors. Most lessons include
vocabulary-expanding applications. The book is designed for
Teacher directed use, or the Student can use it on his own.
Answers are found at the end of each lesson. The Student is
expected to keep a four-section notebook for assigned
writings.
Hewitt American Literature: Early-Mid 19th Century
- $24.95
Students read Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, William Cullen
Bryant, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Herman Melville, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Lessons include
persuasive writing, tone, conflict, character, and rhyme and meter in
poetry. Includes author information, comprehension questions, writing
exercises, additional projects ideas, and reading lists.
Hewitt American Literature: Mid-Late 19th Century
- $24.95
Students read Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Bret
Harte, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Emily Dickinson, and Jack
London. Covers theme, humor, description, point of view, figurative
language, register, and sound in poetry. Information about the
authors, comprehension questions, writing exercises, additional
projects ideas, and reading lists.
MIT Open Courseware: American Literature -
Free
Studies the national literature of the United States since the
early nineteenth century. Considers novels, essays, and poems,
focusing on efforts to define and reform a sense of American identity
amidst increasing awareness of cultural diversity. Readings usually
include works by Hawthorne, Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Dickinson,
Frost, Faulkner, Maxine Kingston, and Amy Tan. Includes syllabus,
calendar, assignments, and related resources.
Oak Meadow American Literature - $59.00
Students read the thoughts and feelings of American men and women
who have helped create and articulate the unique heritage of the
American people and the rich fabric of their culture. Active reading
and critical evaluation is emphasized. Students refine composition and
presentation skills by writing essays (expository, interpretive,
contrast/compare), magazine columns, travel guides, interviews,
editorials, and speeches. In addition, students explore the works of
modern American poets and write a literary research paper.
Florida
Virtual School: $375 per semester; asynchronous
learning.
Keystone
High School: $279 per semester; asynchronous learning;
one year to complete a full credit course.
Indiana University High School: ~$200 per semester;
asynchronous learning; one year to complete a course.
Potter's School: $230
per semester; synchronous learning (set meeting time); Christian world
view.
Scholars
Online: $400 academic year; synchronous learning (set meeting
time); Christian world view.
Texas Tech High School: $100 per semester course, asynchronous
learning, six months to complete a course.
Universal Class American Literature Review: $30 for six month
access; asynchronous learning.
University of Missouri Independent Study: $145 per semester
course, asynchronous learning, nine months to complete a course.
University of Texas at Austin High School : $169 per semester
course, asynchronous learning, nine months to complete a course.
The 43 Books Most Frequently Taught Public Schools, Grades
7-12
American Literature on the Web
The American Literature on the Web site is maintained
by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki
University of Foreign Studies, Japan. This set of American
literature resource pages is mainly a collection of links to
sites on the Internet especially dealing with American
literature and its social, cultural contexts. It includes
homepages and documents on
over 300 authors and electronic texts of their works.
The American Studies Group at The University of Virginia
An archive of American Studies hypertext projects, all produced
here at The University of Virginia. Texts which have recently come on
line or which will be available shortly include works by Crevecoeur,
Twain, Poe, Henry Adams, Melville, Joel Chandler Harris, Alexis de
Tocqueville, Stephen Crane, Cooper, Dickens, Poe, Jefferson, Charles
Brockden Brown, Harriet Wilson, Harriet Jacobs, Thorstein Veblen, D.H.
Lawrence, Sinclair Lewis, Max Weber, Booker T. Washington, and Francis
Parkman. Hypertextsalso includes two interesting cumulative projects,
one based on Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land: The American West as
Symbol and Myth the other on Alan Trachtenberg's The Incorporation of
America.
C-SPAN American Writers A Journey through History
A companion site for C-SPAN's special television series for 2001.
In this series, C-SPAN presents a new live program each week from
historic sites associated with the writers' lives and works such as:
- Harlem to explore the Harlem Renaissance writers
- Key West to discover the life and works of Ernest Hemingway
Every program will feature selected writers' novels, speeches,
diaries, essays and life stories, creating a snapshot of American
history. Each week, American Writers invites experts to discuss the
featured writer's background and literary significance, the time
period the writer lived in and wrote about and the homes and historic
sites important to the writer and the works.
Critical Reading: A Guide
This is a guide to what you might look for in analyzing literature,
particularly poetry and fiction. An analysis explains what a work of
literature means, and how it means it; it is essentially an
articulation of and a defense of an interpretation which shows how the
resources of literature are used to create the meaningfulness of the
text. There are people who resist analysis, believing that it 'tears
apart' a work of art; however a work of art is an artifice, that is,
it is made by someone with an end in view: as a made thing, it can be
and should be analyzed as well as appreciated.
Free
University Project American Literature CLEP
The material covered in the CLEP exam in America is generally
considered equivalent to a two semester lower division college course.
Literature and Poetry Community Center
A collection of resources about poetry, literature, and writers --
William Blake, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Langston
Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and others. Hear Allen Ginsberg, Rita
Dove, and Stanley Kunitz talk about their work. Watch videos of
Americans discussing their favorite poems. Read a weekly column
featuring an American poem. Use the guide to streaming video
literature to find webcasts of writers discussing their work.
Outline of American Literature
The Outline of American literature, newly revised, traces the paths
of American narrative, fiction, poetry and drama as they move from
pre-colonial times into the present, through such literary movements
as romanticism, realism and experimentation. Available online in HTML
or in PDF for printing.
PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and
Reference Guide
Extensive site of resources and references for American Literature
organized by period and authors. Created and maintained by Professor
Paul Reuben of California State University, Stanislaus. Includes a
Scavenger Hunt for Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism in American
Fiction.
Teaching Company: Classics of American Literature
84 Lectures on on American Literature by college
professor. Guidebook includes questions that can be used for
essay topics.
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