Written by James O. Stobaugh
Published at Master Books
About the Curriculum
High School Level Student book and Teacher’s Guide
Enjoy beloved classics while developing vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills!
- Each literature book in the series is a one-year course
- Each chapter has five lessons with daily concept-building exercises, warm-up questions, and guided readings
- Easy-to-use with suggested reading schedules and daily calendar
- Equips students to think critically about philosophy and trends in culture, and articulate their views through writing
A well-crafted presentation of whole-book or whole-work selections from the major genres of classic literature (prose, poetry, and drama), each course has 34 chapters representing 34 weeks of study, with an overview of narrative background material on the writers, their historical settings, and worldview.
The rich curriculum’s content is infused with critical thinking skills, and an easy-to-use teacher’s guide outlines student objectives with each chapter, providing the answers to the assignments and weekly exercises. The final lesson of the week includes both the exam, covering insights on the week’s chapter, as well as essays developed through the course of that week’s study, chosen by the educator and student to personalize the coursework for the individual learner.
My Thoughts
I am quite excited about this specific product. I was wondering what I will do with my kids when they go through high school for literature. Having a curriculum that I know will introduce them to world literature as well as biblical concepts is fabulous. Each lessons is well explained and will guide student and teacher on a fabulous journey through World literature by exploring cultural influences of early to contemporary voices. This book works hand-in-hand with the World History course offered by Master Books as well. Needless to say that I am looking forward to combine the two courses in a few years.
In all, you will find 34 weeks of various World literature through time including books, selections of work, classic prose, poetry and drama. Each chapter can be done in a week with five lessons allowing the student to build up a critical thinking of philosophy and articulating their own world view through writing exercises.
The literature covered in this curriculum includes Epic of Gilgamesh, Papyrus of Ani: Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Illiad, The Odyssey, Histories, The Death of Socrates, The Republic, The Rhetoric and THe Poetics, Oedipus Rex, The Aeneid, Meditations, Sermon on the Mount, Confessions, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Faust, The Stranger, and many more other ones. The students will have the opportunity of exploring World literature, build up their vocabulary, complete concept builders, write essays, and get tested on what they have learned as well. The book is packed with guidelines and literature explorations for students to discover. However, I wouldn’t put that in a grade 8 or 9 student. I would consider it for a grade 10 and up I order to prepare the student in being able to express their worldview with hesitation to others. I find it a great tool to have to allow the student to expand their knowledge in World literature.
The Teacher’s Guide will allow the parent to guide the student in his/her exploration of World Literature as well as provide all the concept builders, the readers, essays assignments and tests to be done. In this guide you will also find the suggested answers for the concept builders, the summaries for essays (what need to be mentioned in the essay written by the student) as well as the answers to the tests. You definitively need to have the Teacher’s Guide in order to be able to provide help if needed. Thinking of it, I think I would very much like to go through the lessons myself in order to learn more about World Literature.
Another course that I would also consider for our high school years would be the British Literature course. American homeschoolers might also want to explore the American Literature course for their students.
Also available are the American Literature Student & Teacher’s Guide as well as the British Literature Student & Teacher’s Guide.
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Disclaimer: Thanks to New Leaf Publishing Group for sending me the above mentioned product for review purposes. I was not monetarily compensated for this review. Please note that the review was not influenced by the Sponsor in any way. All opinions expressed here are only my own.
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