World Literature

 Level: 9th-12th grade
Pre-requisite: none
Credit: 1 high school English credit
Class limit: 10 students
Class minimum: 4 students
Price: $35.50 per 2 hour class

16 classes/semester = $568/semester

for a total of $1,136 per year

Terms:

Note: This is a two-semester class

payable in 9 monthly payments or 2 semester payments
Schedule: Wednesday, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Description: This class is foundational for getting the most from Western literature covered throughout high school. It includes: Gilgamesh, Greek and Roman mythology, The IliadThe OdysseyThe Aeneid, Aristotle’s Poetics,OedipusThe Divine ComedyArabian Nights, Augustine’s Confessions, selections from the Bible and the Koran, King Arthur, Song of RolandHamlet, and Jane Eyre. The goal of this class is to experience literary classics from around the world from 3,500 B.C. to the 19th century and respond in oral and written form. Text: The Norton Anthology of World Literature and novels. The writing assignments will include literary analysis essays, creative writing projects, and a position/research paper.
Honors Option: Students who pursue the Honors option will either read an additional novel and write an accompanying literary analysis essay per semester or complete an additional class assignment related to the present unit of study every other week. Also, the Honors student’s level of completed work must be on a high level of rhetoric (reasoning and writing).
Text:

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, 7th edition  (Good used copies will be supplied by Powers Classical School, and are to be returned at the end of the school year.)

Novels: Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

Texts to be Used

(Good used copies will be supplied by Powers Classical School, and are to be returned at the end of the school year.)

The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, 7th edition

College-level American literature anthologies, like Norton’s