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The Gold Book - Literary Criticism - High School Skills (E-Book)

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​THE GOLD BOOK - LITERARY CRITICISM
12TH GRADE SKILLS

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Learning Language Arts Through Literature - The Gold Book – Literary Criticism and its companion A Literary Criticism Anthology provide a complete course that will satisfy high school language arts requirements. The main goal of the course is to prepare the student for college level writing. All the writing assignments are based on literature and intended to challenge the student’s ability to think critically. Students will be introduced to different methods of literary criticism and given instructions, along with example papers, on writing essays. By the end of the course, the student will have written a short memoir, a college essay, nine five-paragraph essays, three five-page essays, and one ten-page essay.
 
The Gold Book – Literary Criticism offers easy-to-use instructions for student and teacher. The book is written for student self-direction with answers for the teacher in the back of the book.

The Gold Book – Literary Criticism is designed for 11th and 12th grade students and is organized by following literary criticism techniques:
Focus on the Reader
Focus on the Author
Focus on the Culture, Society, History
Focus on the Work
Focus on Poetry
Focus on Satire
 
To complete the assignments in this book, the student will need access to the internet and/or a library as well as the following books:

A Literary Criticism Anthology, published by Common Sense Press
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, published by Broadway Books
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, published by Ace Trade
The Trial by Franz Kafka, translated by Breon Mitchell, published by Schocken Books
No Fear Shakespeare, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, published by Spark Publishing
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, published by Townsend Press, Inc.
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Download a FREE sample of the Literary Criticism anthology.
The Literary Criticism course from Common Sense Press is written to prepare students for college level writing. Throughout the course, students will write a five-paragraph essay, a five-page essay, and a ten-page essay, as well as completing other writing assignments. Practicing these will be a major step on the path to preparing kids for college level writing.
- Leah, As We Walk Along the Road


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Reading Skills/Short Stories, Books, Plays, Essays
Short stories: The Handsomest Drowned Man (Marquez), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Fitzgerald), The Lady or the Tiger Stockton), The Three Questions (Tolstoy), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Irving), The Bet (Chekhov), The Story of an Hour (Chopin), Interlopers (Saki), The Door in the Wall (Wells), Beyond Lies the Wub (Dick). The Nightingale and the Rose (Wilde), The Yellow Wallpaper (Gilman), The Man Who Would be King (Kipling), Everyday Use (Walker), 2BR02B (Vonnegut), The Man Who Planted Trees (Giono), The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Thurber), The Pit and the Pendulum (Poe), The Fly (Mansfield), The Most Dangerous Game (Connell)
Books:  Tuesdays With Morey (Albom), Starship Troopers (Heinlein), The Trial (Kafka), The Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
Plays: Pygmalion (Shaw), Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Essays: Faith and Fiction (Buechner), A Presidential Candidate (Twain)
Writing
Literary criticism: Focus on the Reader, Focus on the Author, Focus on the Culture, Society, History, Focus on the Work, Focus on Poetry, Focus on Satire, formalism – moralism – narrative; five-paragraph essay- five-page essay - ten-page essay – memoir – outlining – research – thesis statement – topic sentences – Work Cited page – Citing – MLA – plagiarism – paraphrase – rough draft – editing – introductory paragraph – rough draft – proofreading – format – college essay – memoir – passive/active voice – biography – autobiography – memoir – annotated bibliography – satire – irony – dramatic irony – situational irony- verbal irony – hyperbole – sarcasm – showing/telling – theme – stream of consciousness – block quote – plot
Poetry
close reading – alliteration – allusions – assonance – cluster criticism – conceit – consonance – diction – free verse – imagery – internal rhymes – metaphor – meter – mood – onomatopoeia – personification – rhyme scheme – symbolism – tone ​
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