Imperfect Book – The Gold Book – American Literature – High School Skills

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The 3rd Edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature -Gold Book – American Literature is a complete curriculum for high school language arts courses. Classic poems, short stories, and novels by the best and most influential American authors were selected to demonstrate literary principles. The Gold Book series is designed to encourage the high school student’s ability to read and understand literature, develop the ability for verbal and written expression, enable him to interpret and access literary meaning in terms of content and philosophy and clearly state a position in response. ​

Course Notes and Test Booklet contains complete American literature 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, our Essay Assessment Service offers personal assessment of the three major writing assignments in the best American Literature book – an expository essay, a descriptive essay, and a narrative essay.

​In The Gold Book – American Literature you will find:

The Short Story Unit delves into the works of Henry James, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Thurber, Mark Twain, and others. Students learn about the elements of a short story, evaluating plots, interpreting high school literature, and much more.

Novel Units take an in-depth look at famous American novels.  Students are challenged with thought-provoking questions, learn to interpret literature, analyze characters, and more.

The Essay Unit includes the process and uses for expository, descriptive, and narrative essays.

The Poetry Unit includes the poetry of notable American poets such as Emerson, Longfellow, Dickinson, Frost, Cummings, Auden, and more. Your student will analyze poetry, interpret poetry, and learn various poetic styles.

Teacher’s Guide and Answers are now located in the back of the book along with novel summaries, answers, and more helps making this edition easier than ever to use!

*To complete the assignments in this manual, the student will need the following American literature books which may be obtained through your library or purchased from bookstores or catalogs:

Great American Short Stories – Edited by Wallace and Mary Stegner, Random House.
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets – Edited by Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig, Penguin.
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway, Simon and Schuster.
The Pearl  John Steinbeck, Penguin.
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane, Random House.

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Scope and Sequence

Reading Skills/Short Stories

Great American Short Stories: Wallace and Mary Stegner, The Mentor Book of Major American Poets (Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig), The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway), The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane), The Pearl (John Steinbeck)

Literary Elements: Character study, conflict, flat characters, round characters, crisis, outlines, elements of fiction, setting, plot, foreshadowing, irony, themes, outcome

Narrative Techniques: Supporting your answer, point of view (first person narrative, omniscient author, third person objective), main character, interpretation, allegory, figurative meaning

Story Structure: Novella, character development, plot development, topics, reference books, stream-of-consciousness, compare and contrast, comparison

Essays

Rhetorical Techniques: Compare and contrast, extended definitions, argument and persuasion, expository writing, research papers

Essay Structure: Topics, subtopics, conclusions, coherence, transitional devices, concluding paragraphs, introductory paragraph, evidence, first body paragraphs, outlines, supportive topics, thesis statements

Poetry

Poetic Devices: Personification, imagery, metaphors, comparisons, similes, syntax and form, moods
Poetic Forms: Sonnets, iambic pentameter, sestets, tercets, quatrains
Poetry Elements: Topics, stanzas, rhyme groups, abstractions, symbolism

Essay Assessment

The Gold Book: American Literature Writing Assessment

There are three major writing assignments in the Gold Book: American Literature that will be submitted for assessment throughout the year. 

Expository Essay: Students will choose an essay topic based on the short stories they have read and write a five paragraph essay that uses literary criticism. 500 – 600 words. 

Descriptive Essay: Students will write a five paragraph, descriptive essay one of the poems they’ve read. They will read and analyze the poem and come up with a topic (an object, an impression, an idea, or a person that has to do with the poem). 

Narrative Essay: The narrative essay is a story told from the writer’s own experience. It can be factual or fictional and is told in a connected sequence of events.

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