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THE GOLD BOOK - WORLD LITERATURE
​HIGH SCHOOL GRADE SKILLS

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The 3rd Edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature - The Gold Book - World Literature offers instructions and directions for student and teacher. Now the answers are in the Teacher Section along with novel summaries, answers, and more helps making this edition easier than ever to use!

Course Notes and Test Booklet contains complete course notes for each unit, unit tests, and answer keys to assist you in the grading process needed for high school transcripts. As a further help, an Essay Assessment Service offers personal assessment of the two major writing assignments in the World Literature book – writing an epic and a novel book report.

The Gold Book - World Literature and its companion, A World Literature Anthology, are complete curricula for high school world literature language arts. Carefully selected poems, short stories, novels, and other writings from long ago and far away are included to represent as many different cultures as possible. Using A World Literature Anthology published by Common Sense Press, students will read several works in their entirety as well as excerpts from many others. A necessary component to The Gold Book - World Literature, A World Literature Anthology is also a valuable tool for any world history course.

The Gold Book series is designed to encourage the high school student's ability to interpret and access literary meaning in terms of content and philosophy and clearly state a position in response.

The 3rd edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature - The Gold Book - World offers easy-to-use instructions for student and teacher.  Novel summaries, answers, and more helps are in the Teacher Section in the back of the book.

In The Gold Book - World Literature you will find:
Unit 1 - Early Literature
Unit 2 - Epic Poetry
Unit 3 - Medieval-Renaissance
Unit 4 - Enlightenment-Romanticism
Unit 5 - 20th Century

Ancient Literature Study introduces the student to world literature through the earliest recorded writings, many of which began as oral tradition. These include fables, myths, fairytales, folktales, and parables as well as poetry and sacred texts of ancient cultures.

Epic Study introduces the student to heroic stories from seven different cultures spanning hundreds of years. Students will be able to identify the elements that make up epic literature and will apply this knowledge to writing their own epic stories. Guided by thought-provoking questions, the student will compare and contrast these epics by analyzing characters and identifying qualities valued by each culture. 

Novel Study takes an in-depth look at three classic works of literature from ancient times to modern. The student will learn to interpret literature and formulate an opinion of each novel. In addition to reading these full length books, students will be introduced to many books through an "over-view" of the work giving a broad foundation from which to expand their learning.

Poetry Study includes the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, poetry from Egypt, Japan, China, the Middle East, and the European sonnet. Students will thoroughly review meter, rhyme scheme, and literary terms.

Play Study leads the student in reading two full length plays - Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and a comedy of manners play, "The Importance of Being Earnest."

Short Stories Study allows the student to explore plot lines, characters, settings, and themes of nine short stories from France, America, England, Russia, Canada, and New Zealand. Students will be given the opportunity to write a summary detailing what they have read.

Teacher's Guide and Answers are located in the back of the book.
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To complete the assignments in this manual, the student will need the following books:

A World Literature Anthology. Common Sense Press.
The Odyssey - Homer. Barnes & Noble Classics.
No Fear Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare, William. Spark Publishing.
The Little Prince - de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine. Mariner Books.
Cry, the Beloved Country - Paton, Alan. Scribner. ​
Download a FREE sample of the World Literature textbook.

Download a FREE sample of the World Literature Anthology.
These are excellent college preparatory courses.
​--- Cathy Duffy, Curriculum Specialist and Author
Read Cathy Duffy's complete review of the The Gold Book Series.
Reading Skills/Short Stories
Early literature:  myths, folktales, fairytales, fables, African proverbs and dilemma tales, parables - The Analects - The Pillow Book - The Epic of Gilgamesh
Epic Poetry:  The Odyssey - The Mahabharata/The Ramayana - The Aeneid - Beowulf - The Song of Roland - The Nibelungenlied
Medieval/Renaissance:  The Thousand and One Nights - The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyyam - Canterbury Tales -  Romeo and Juliet - Don Quixote
Enlightenment/Romanticism:  Pilgrim’s Progress - The Divine Comedy - Gulliver’s Travels - Faust, Book One -  Doctor Faustus -The Devil and Tom Walker - The Picture of Dorian Gray -  Les Miserables -  The Importance of Being Earnest - The Short Story - 20th Century: The Little Prince - Cry the Beloved Country
critical thinking - predicting outcomes  - metaphor - simile - alliteration - parallelism - flashback - frame story - foreshadowing - narration - theme - paraphrase - soliloquy - oral reading - satire - hyperbole - verbal irony - parody - allegory - motif - protagonist - antagonist - dues ex machine - comedy of manners play - epigram - pun - characters - setting - theme - plot - plot line - conflict - point of view - first/third person - objective/limited/omniscient - stream of consciousness - climax - exposition - rising action - falling action - resolution (denouement) - summary - novella - Christ figure - epilogue
Composition
Argument and persuasion - prewriting - topic sentence - editing - compare and contrast - epic story writing - creative writing - newspaper article - writing poetry - paraphrase - character sketch - summary - book report
Poetry
The great hymn of the Aten - Rig Veda - The Book of Songs - tanka Poetry - haiku - lyric poetry - ghazal - sonnets - consonance - assonance - pivot words - meter - metrical pattern - feet - ode - epics - Homeric simile - rhyme scheme - caesura - kenning - laisses - quatrain - personification - iambic pentameter - blank verse - tercets  ​
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