The Gold Book – Literary Criticism – High School Skills

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Description

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.

Sample

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Download a FREE sample of the Literary Criticism anthology.

Scope and Sequence

Reading Skills

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 Morrie (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, Author, Culture, Society, History, Work, Poetry, Satire
  • Formalism – Moralism – Narrative

 
Essay Writing:

  • 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, proofreading, format
  • College essay, memoir, passive/active voice, biography, autobiography, 

annotated bibliography

  • Satire, irony (dramatic, situational, verbal), hyperbole, sarcasm
  • Showing vs. telling, theme, stream of consciousness, block quote, plot

 
Poetry

Skills and Techniques:

  • Close reading, alliteration, allusions, assonance, cluster criticism, conceit
  • Consonance, diction, free verse, imagery, internal rhymes, metaphor
  • Meter, mood, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme scheme, symbolism, tone

Essay Assessment

THE GOLD BOOK: LITERARY CRITICISM WRITING ASSESSMENT

The Gold Book: Literary Criticism is intended to prepare the student for college level writing. Students will develop their writing skills by building upon the five-paragraph essay.  During the course they will write ten five-paragraph essays, three five-page essays, and one ten-page essay.
 
In order to assist your student, we recommend that the following essays be submitted for assessment throughout the year after completing the indicated lessons:
 
Lesson Two – the basic five-paragraph essay on student’s chosen topic. Skills learned here are the foundation for the other writing assignments.
 
Lesson Six – the five-paragraph essay based on chosen short story. This assessment is intended to correct any major essay writing mistakes. Students will continue to build on what they have learned.
 
Lesson 16 – the five-page essay based on Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein should pull together all that the students have learned thus far.
 
Students may choose one of the other two five-page essays for assessment:
 
Lesson 23 – The Trial Franz Kafka
 
Lesson 28 – Macbeth William Shakespeare
 
Each lesson will be assessed for writing mechanics as well as organization and structure. After the student receives the assessment, they are encouraged to make the corrections and rewrite if necessary. This practice will help to strengthen their writing skills.

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