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Grades: 7th - 12th Grade
Retail Price: $38.95
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| AMERICAN LITERATURE - COMPLETE BOXED SET The LIFEPAC Gold American Literature Complete Boxed
Set includes 5 full-color LIFEPAC student worktexts, and a complete Teacher's Guide
including a synopsis of every LIFEPAC worktext, complete answer keys and text keys, and
tips on managing your home school.
As a supplement to the LIFEPAC Language Arts curriculum , this semester-long
course introduces students to works by prominent American writers. Periods covered
include Early American Literature (1600-1800), The Growth of a Nation (1800-1840), The
American Renaissance (1840-1855), War and Reconciliation (1855-1865), Realism &
Naturalism (1865-1915), The Modern Age (1915-1946), and From Modern to Postmodern
(1946-present). |
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GETTING STARTED
If you are new to the LIFEPAC Gold curriculum, click here for a complete CURRICULUM OVERVIEW. |
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Program Objectives |
| 1. The student will gain a general
overview of the development of American literature and thought from Puritanism to
Postmodernism. 2. The student will learn to
critique the philosophy of each author from a Christian perspective.
3. The student will become aware of the
philosophies and religious beliefs that influenced the authors in each period of history.
4. The student will gain knowledge of the
historical and biographical back-ground of each author and period.
5. The student will appreciate literature as a
reflection of the thought and life of the times. |
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Table of Contents |
The individual LIFEPAC worktexts are:
Early American Literature (1600-1800)
Growth of a Nation (1800-1840)
War and Reconciliation (1855-1865)
Modern Age (1915-1946)
Modern to Postmodern (1946-present).
Also a Complete Teacher's Guide is included |
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American Literature Overview |
| LIFEPAC 1 OVERVIEW
Early American Literature 1600-1800
INTRODUCTION
The Puritans
John Smith
William Bradford
John Winthrop
The Colonists
Mary Rowlandson
Anne Bradstreet
Edward Taylor
Samuel Sewall
The Days of Change and Revolution
1700-1800
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur |
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LIFEPAC 2 OVERVIEW
Romantic Period
A NEW NATION 1800-1840
INTRODUCTION
Washington Irving
James Fenimore Cooper
William Cullen Bryant
American Renaissance 1840-1855
INTRODUCTION
THE FIRESIDE POETS
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
John Greenleaf Whittier
Oliver Wendell Holmes
THE TRANSCENDENTALISTS
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Walt Whitman
Poets of Despair
Edgar Allen Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Melville
Emily Dickinson |
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LIFEPAC 3 OVERVIEW
War and Reconciliation 1855-1865
SECESSION AND LOYALTY
INTRODUCTION
Frederick Douglas
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Spirituals
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln
Realism and Naturalism 1865-1915
INTRODUCTION
Samuel Longhorne Clemens
William Dean Howells
Henry James
Naturalists, Regionalists, and Realists
Stephen Crane
Kate Chopin
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Jack London |
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LIFEPAC
4 OVERVIEW |
The Modern Age 1915-1946MODERN
PROSE
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modern Poetry
Ezra Pound
Carl Sandburg
E.E. Cummings
Wallace Stevens
Robert Frost
W.H. Auden
Other Modern Age Literature
Harlem Renaissance-Langston Hughes
Drama-Thornton Wilder
Religious Works-J.
Grescham Machen |
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LIFEPAC
5 OVERVIEW |
From Modern to Postmodern 1946-Present
INTRODUCTION
Flannery O’Connor
Theodore Roethke
More Contemporary Writers
Eudora Welty
John Updike
Robert Trail Spence Lowell, Jr.
Social Issues
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ralph Ellison
Gwendolyn Brooks |
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| If you are new to the LIFEPAC Gold
curriculum, click here for a complete CURRICULUM
OVERVIEW or click a link below to find out about other Alpha Omega
LIFEPAC Gold Elective Courses. |
Spanish 1
British Literature
American Literature
Accounting
Art
Health Quest
Home Economics |
| Click below to read about the LIFEPAC Gold
core subjects: |
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