The Gold Book – World Literature – High School Skills

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The 3rd Edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature The Gold Book – World Literature – High School Skills offers instructions and directions for students and teachers. Now the answers are in the Teacher Section, along with novel summaries, answers, and more help, making this edition easier than ever to use!

Course Notes and Test Booklet contains complete 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 a personal assessment of the two major writing assignments in the World Literature textbook—writing an epic and a novel book report.

The Gold Book – World Literature and its companion, A World Literature Anthology, are complete high school literature curriculum. Carefully selected poems, short stories, novels, and other writings from long ago and far away are included to represent as many different cultures as possible. Using an anthology of world literature published by Common Sense Press, students will read several works in their entirety, as well as excerpts from many others. A necessary component to The Gold Book – World Literature – High School Skills, A World Literature Anthology is also a valuable tool for any world literature syllabus.

The Gold Book series is designed to encourage the high school student’s ability to interpret and access literary meaning in terms of content and philosophy and clearly state a position in response.

The 3rd edition Learning Language Arts Through Literature – The Gold Book – World Literature offers easy-to-use instructions for students and teachers. Novel summaries, answers, and more help are in the Teacher Section in the back of the book.

In The Gold Book – World Literature you will find:
Unit 1 – Early Literature
Unit 2 – Epic Poetry
Unit 3 – Medieval-Renaissance
Unit 4 – Enlightenment-Romanticism
Unit 5 – 20th Century

Ancient Literature Study introduces the student to world literature through the earliest recorded writings, many of which began as oral tradition. Books on world literature include fables, myths, fairy tales, folktales, and parables, as well as poetry and sacred texts of ancient cultures.

Epic Study introduces the student to heroic stories from seven different cultures spanning hundreds of years. Students will be able to identify the elements that make up epic literature and will apply this knowledge to writing their own epic stories. Thought-provoking questions guide this unit of the English literature textbook. The student will compare and contrast these epics by analyzing characters and identifying qualities valued by each culture.

Novel Study takes an in-depth look at three classic works of literature from ancient times to modern. The student will learn to interpret literature and formulate an opinion of each novel. In addition to reading these full-length global literature books, students will be introduced to many books through an overview of the work, giving a broad foundation from which to expand their learning.

Poetry Study includes the poetry of ancient Greece and Rome, poetry from Egypt, Japan, China, the Middle East, and the European sonnet. Students will thoroughly review meter, rhyme scheme, and literary terms.

Play Study leads the student in reading two full-length plays including Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and a comedy of manners play, “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

Short Stories Study allows the student to explore plot lines, characters, settings, and themes of nine short stories from France, America, England, Russia, Canada, and New Zealand. Students will be given the opportunity to write a summary detailing what they have read.

Teacher’s Guide and Answers are located at the back of this high school world literature book.

To complete the assignments in this manual, the student will need the following books:

A World Literature Anthology. Common Sense Press.
The Odyssey – Homer. Barnes & Noble Classics.
No Fear Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare, William. Spark Publishing.
The Little Prince – de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine. Mariner Books.
Cry, the Beloved Country – Paton, Alan. Scribner. ​

Sample

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Scope and Sequence

Reading Skills/Short Stories

Early Literature: Myths, folktales, fairy tales, fables, African proverbs, dilemma tales, parables
Works: The Analects, The Pillow Book, The Epic of Gilgamesh

Epic Poetry:
The Odyssey, The Mahabharata/The Ramayana, The Aeneid, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied

Medieval/Renaissance Literature:
The Thousand and One Nights, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Canterbury Tales, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote

Enlightenment/Romanticism Literature:
Pilgrim’s Progress, The Divine Comedy, Gulliver’s Travels, Faust, Book One, Doctor Faustus, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Miserables, The Importance of Being Earnest

20th Century Literature:
The Short Story, The Little Prince, Cry the Beloved Country

Critical Thinking Skills: Predicting outcomes, metaphor, simile, alliteration, parallelism, flashback, frame story, foreshadowing, narration, theme, paraphrase, soliloquy, oral reading, satire, hyperbole, verbal irony, parody, allegory, motif

Literary Elements: Protagonist, antagonist, deus ex machina, comedy of manners, epigram, pun

Story Structure: Characters, setting, theme, plot, plot line, conflict, point of view (first/third person, objective/limited/omniscient), stream of consciousness, climax, exposition, rising action, falling action, resolution (denouement), summary, novella, Christ figure, epilogue

Composition Skills
Argument and persuasion, prewriting, topic sentence, editing, compare and contrast, epic story writing, creative writing, newspaper article, writing poetry, paraphrase, character sketch, summary, book report

Poetry

Classic Works: The Great Hymn of the Aten, Rig Veda, The Book of Songs

Poetic Forms: Tanka poetry, haiku, lyric poetry, ghazal, sonnets

Poetic Techniques: Consonance, assonance, pivot words, meter, metrical pattern, feet, ode, epics, Homeric simile, rhyme scheme, caesura, kenning, laisses, quatrain, personification, iambic pentameter, blank verse, tercets

Essay Assessment

The Gold Book: World Literature Writing Assessment

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

The Epic Adventure: This writing assignment is the culmination of the Epic Poetry Unit, where students have studied six epic poems. Your students will then have the opportunity to create their own epic adventure. They will be led through the steps that are taken to creating an Epic Adventure.

Cry, the Beloved Country Book Report: a 500 word book report on the novel Cry, the Beloved Country.

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