The Gold Book - World Literature - High School Skills (E-Book)
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THE GOLD BOOK - WORLD LITERATURE
HIGH SCHOOL GRADE SKILLS
The 3rd Edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature - The Gold Book - World Literature offers an in-depth World Literature Curriculum designed for both students and teachers. It serves as a comprehensive high school literature curriculum that encourages critical thinking, writing, and reading comprehension. This high school language arts curriculum provides structured instructions, answers in the teacher section, and summaries to make learning easier!
The Course Notes and Test Booklet provide detailed notes for each unit, unit tests, and answer keys to assist in the grading process, which is essential for high school transcripts in a homeschool language arts curriculum.
Additionally, the Essay Assessment Service offers personalized assessments for two major writing assignments—writing an epic and a novel book report—further integrating key elements of a high school English curriculum
The Gold Book - World Literature and its companion, A World Literature Anthology, are carefully curated to represent diverse cultures from around the world. The World Literature Curriculum introduces students to classic and modern texts, and is essential for any comprehensive homeschool curriculum.
The Gold Book encourages students to interpret literature through the lenses of philosophy and culture, while honing their writing skills and critical thinking. It’s perfect for building reading comprehension for high school students while exploring different genres and themes.
In this curriculum, you will find:
Key Features:
Teacher's Guide and Additional Resources:
The Teacher Section includes summaries, answer keys, and additional resources, making this curriculum ideal for both homeschooling parents and traditional educators. These materials support effective grading and provide guidance for deeper exploration of the literary themes in each unit.
For a complete literature study, students will need the following books:
The Course Notes and Test Booklet provide detailed notes for each unit, unit tests, and answer keys to assist in the grading process, which is essential for high school transcripts in a homeschool language arts curriculum.
Additionally, the Essay Assessment Service offers personalized assessments for two major writing assignments—writing an epic and a novel book report—further integrating key elements of a high school English curriculum
The Gold Book - World Literature and its companion, A World Literature Anthology, are carefully curated to represent diverse cultures from around the world. The World Literature Curriculum introduces students to classic and modern texts, and is essential for any comprehensive homeschool curriculum.
The Gold Book encourages students to interpret literature through the lenses of philosophy and culture, while honing their writing skills and critical thinking. It’s perfect for building reading comprehension for high school students while exploring different genres and themes.
In this curriculum, you will find:
- Unit 1 - Early Literature
- Unit 2 - Epic Poetry
- Unit 3 - Medieval-Renaissance
- Unit 4 - Enlightenment-Romanticism
- Unit 5 - 20th Century
Key Features:
- Ancient Literature Study:
Students explore fables, myths, fairy tales, folktales, parables, and sacred texts from various ancient cultures. This section lays a foundation in understanding how oral traditions evolved into written literature and how early literature shapes modern narratives. - Epic Study:
This unit covers heroic stories from seven different cultures, spanning hundreds of years. By comparing epic literature, students develop critical thinking skills while writing their own epic stories. Thought-provoking writing prompts encourage high schoolers to reflect on character qualities valued by each culture. - Novel Study:
Through in-depth analysis of three classic novels, students gain a solid understanding of high school reading comprehension and literary analysis. Students also engage in writing assignments that enhance their writing skills and ability to interpret complex literature. - Poetry Study:
This unit includes poetry from ancient Greece, Rome, Japan, China, Egypt, and the Middle East. Students review meter, rhyme scheme, and literary terms, fostering their understanding of English language arts and poetic forms from different cultures. - Play Study:
Students read and analyze full-length plays, including Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest, a classic comedy of manners. This section strengthens students' understanding of dramatic elements, character development, and literary devices. - Short Stories Study:
Featuring nine short stories from countries such as France, America, England, and Russia, this unit sharpens students' ability to explore plotlines, character development, and themes. Students are encouraged to create summaries of the stories, improving comprehension and writing abilities.
Teacher's Guide and Additional Resources:
The Teacher Section includes summaries, answer keys, and additional resources, making this curriculum ideal for both homeschooling parents and traditional educators. These materials support effective grading and provide guidance for deeper exploration of the literary themes in each unit.
For a complete literature study, students will need the following books:
- A World Literature Anthology (Common Sense Press)
- The Odyssey by Homer (Barnes & Noble Classics)
- No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (Spark Publishing)
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Mariner Books)
- Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton (Scribner)
Download a FREE sample of the World Literature textbook.
Download a FREE sample of the World Literature Anthology.
Download a FREE sample of the World Literature Anthology.
These are excellent college preparatory courses.
--- Cathy Duffy, Curriculum Specialist and Author
Reading Skills/Short Stories
Early Literature:
Myths, folktales, fairy tales, fables, African proverbs, dilemma tales, parables
Works: 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 Literature:
The Thousand and One Nights, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Canterbury Tales, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote
Enlightenment/Romanticism Literature:
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
20th Century Literature:
The Short Story, The Little Prince, Cry the Beloved Country
Critical Thinking Skills:
Predicting outcomes, metaphor, simile, alliteration, parallelism, flashback, frame story, foreshadowing, narration, theme, paraphrase, soliloquy, oral reading, satire, hyperbole, verbal irony, parody, allegory, motif
Literary Elements:
Protagonist, antagonist, deus ex machina, comedy of manners, epigram, pun
Story Structure:
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 Skills:
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:
Classic Works: The Great Hymn of the Aten, Rig Veda, The Book of Songs
Poetic Forms: Tanka poetry, haiku, lyric poetry, ghazal, sonnets
Poetic Techniques: Consonance, assonance, pivot words, meter, metrical pattern, feet, ode, epics, Homeric simile, rhyme scheme, caesura, kenning, laisses, quatrain, personification, iambic pentameter, blank verse, tercets
Early Literature:
Myths, folktales, fairy tales, fables, African proverbs, dilemma tales, parables
Works: 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 Literature:
The Thousand and One Nights, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Canterbury Tales, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote
Enlightenment/Romanticism Literature:
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
20th Century Literature:
The Short Story, The Little Prince, Cry the Beloved Country
Critical Thinking Skills:
Predicting outcomes, metaphor, simile, alliteration, parallelism, flashback, frame story, foreshadowing, narration, theme, paraphrase, soliloquy, oral reading, satire, hyperbole, verbal irony, parody, allegory, motif
Literary Elements:
Protagonist, antagonist, deus ex machina, comedy of manners, epigram, pun
Story Structure:
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 Skills:
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:
Classic Works: The Great Hymn of the Aten, Rig Veda, The Book of Songs
Poetic Forms: Tanka poetry, haiku, lyric poetry, ghazal, sonnets
Poetic Techniques: 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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