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| Title: Themes in Literature |
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| Subject: Literature |
Course Number: 20215 |
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| Suggested Grade Level: 9th–11th |
Authors: Jan Anderson, ed. and
Authors: Corinne Sawtelle, ed. |
Number of Pages: 384 |
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| Publisher: A Beka Book Publishers |
Academic Credit: 0.5 |
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| Copyright: 2010 (4th edition) |
Course Charge: None |
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| Prerequisites: None |
| Course Materials: Textbook, 2 book report books (see below), teacher’s manual,* supplemental lessons booklet,* and 4 tests* |
| * Item published by Christian Liberty Press |
| Course Description: This course provides a thematic study of classic literature, primarily but not exclusively by English and American authors. Themes covered are truth and wisdom, courage, humility, justice, temperance, Christmas, joy and peace, beauty, faith and hope, love, and time and eternity. Lessons on literary terms, such as personification, allusion, foreshadowing, irony, and tone are presented through the supplemental lessons booklet. Featured authors include Tolstoy, Shakespeare, à Kempis, Tennyson, Hawthorne, Carroll, Twain, Frost, Dickinson, O. Henry, Longfellow, Milton, Bunyan, and Wordsworth. |
| Title: The Brethren: A Tale of the Crusades (book report book) |
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| Author: H. Rider Haggard |
Number of Pages: 347 |
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| Publisher: Christian Liberty Press |
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| Copyright: 2004 (revised) |
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| Description: This historical novel, set in the climactic months before the opening of the Third Crusade, is a classic tale of love and chivalry. It is the story of two knights who are in love with the same maiden. Their devotion is tested as they are thrust into epic Crusader battles. |
Title: In Freedom’s Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce
Title: (book report book) |
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| Author: G.A. Henty |
Number of Pages: 310 |
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| Publisher: Christian Liberty Press |
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| Description: This historical novel, set during the late thirteenth century, tells the story of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce as they lead their countrymen in the struggle for Scottish independence. |
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