The Gold Book – Literary Criticism – High School Skills

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 this literature 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 critical thinking skills. Students will be introduced to different methods and books about literary criticism, 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 students and teachers. The book is written for student self-direction with answers for the teacher in the back of the book.

This program is designed for 11th and 12th grade students and is organized by following homeschool literature curriculum 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 literary works assignment in this book, the student will need access to the internet and/or a library as well as the following literature based homeschool curriculum:

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.