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AMERICAN LITERATURE
22335 American Literature, 1st half
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: A high school level world literature course
Description: This course provides a chronological study of classic American literature from the early 1600s to the twentieth century. Detailed historical sections, timelines, and author biographies provide background information on the people, forces, and philosophies that shaped the various literary styles and periods. Featured authors include William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Crosby, Frost, Sandburg, and Hemingway.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – American Literature, 3rd edition | ©2016 Bob Jones University Press | 674 pages
• Answer Key – ©2018 Christian Liberty Press | 49 pages
• Test Packet – ©2018 Christian Liberty Press | 3 tests
PLUS select one of the following book report requirements
Moby-Dick
Description: This is the story of Captain Ahab and his mad quest for the White Whale. Considered to be one of the greatest sea stories ever written, this book tells the tale of vengeance and obsession, and their effect on man.
Course Materials:
• Novel – Moby-Dick by Herman Mellville | ©1851 any unabridged edition
The Scarlet Letter
Description: Set in early New England, this "tale of human frailty and sorrow" shows the terrible impact of sin on three people and deals with such issues as guilt and redemption, hypocrisy, and shame.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne | ©1850 any unabridged edition
22340 American Literature, 2nd half
Suggested Grade Level: 10th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: American Literature, 1st half
Description: This course provides a chronological study of classic American literature from the early 1600s to the twentieth century. Detailed historical sections, timelines, and author biographies provide background information on the people, forces, and philosophies that shaped the various literary styles and periods. Featured authors include William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Crosby, Frost, Sandburg, and Hemingway.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – American Literature, 3rd edition | ©2016 Bob Jones University Press | 674 pages
• Answer Key – ©2018 Christian Liberty Press | 49 pages
• Test Packet – ©2018 Christian Liberty Press | 3 tests
PLUS select one of the following book report requirements
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Description: This is the story about a young boy named Huckleberry Finn and his journey down the Mississippi River. Written in the vernacular of the day, Twain uses the adventures of Huck to explore life in America prior to the Civil War. Although controversial for its use of racial stereotypes, this book satirizes slavery and the society that supported it.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain | ©1884 any unabridged edition
The Portrait of a Lady
Description: This novel examines the differences between Europe and America through the life of a young American woman who moves to England and is caught in a struggle between independence and social propriety.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | ©1881 any unabridged edition
COMPOSITION
49895 Writing a Research Paper: Senior Project
Suggested Grade Level: 12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course teaches the step-by-step process of producing a written research paper. It begins by defining a research paper as an expanded expository essay which informs or explains an issue or topic through an accurate recording and supporting of the truth. The student is then taken through the steps of preplanning: how to use the library, the selecting of a topic, focusing thoughts, preparing an outline, and producing a final product.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Writing a Research Paper, 2nd edition | ©2017 Christian Liberty Press | 74 pages
49890 Writing a Research Paper: Sophomore Project
Note: This material is included in the GRAMMAR 10: Applications of Grammar 4 course.
Suggested Grade Level: 10th–11th
Academic Credit: 0.25
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course teaches the step-by-step process of producing a written research paper. It begins by defining a research paper as an expanded expository essay which informs or explains an issue or topic through an accurate recording and supporting of the truth. The student is then taken through the steps of preplanning: how to use the library, the selecting of a topic, focusing thoughts, preparing an outline, and producing a final product.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Writing a Research Paper, 2nd edition | ©2017 Christian Liberty Press | 74 pages
CREATIVE WRITING
49910 The Exciting World of Creative Writing
Suggested Grade Level: 7th–11th
Academic Credit: 0.5 (if assigned at the high school level)
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course emphasizes creativity in writing. Students will learn how to write short stories, both fictional and non-fictional. Student will also receive information and guidance about getting their stories published.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – The Exciting World of Creative Writing | ©1997 (rev ed) Christian Liberty Press | 137 pages
• Test Packet – ©2008 Christian Liberty Press | 4 tests
49245 Jensen's Format Writing
Suggested Grade Level: 10th–12th
Academic Credit: 1.0
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course emphasizes the technical aspects of how to construct good paragraphs, essays, and research papers. The assignments in the book include writing seven kinds of paragraphs and seven kinds of essays, as well as a research paper.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Jensen's Format Writing, 2nd edition | ©2016 Master Books | 277 pages
41110 Success in Writing
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course presents a balanced approach to both the technical and creative aspects of writing. Many sections contain samples of good writing from literature, providing examples for students to study. Book assignments offer different types of writing exercises.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Success in Writing | ©1968 Christian Liberty Press reprint (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.) | 127 pages
ENGLISH LITERATURE
20465 English Literature
Suggested Grade Level: 11th–12th
Academic Credit: 1.0
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: A high school level world literature course
Description: This course provides a chronological study of classic English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. Selections in the textbook include such diverse forms as poems and hymns, short stories, essays, and excerpts from novels and plays. Authors featured in the textbook include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wesley, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Dickens, Shaw, and Orwell. Background material, brief author biographies, and histories of each time period are provided, along with a glossary of literary terms.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – English Literature, 4th edition | ©2013 Abeka Book Publishers | 497 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©2014 Christian Liberty Press | 81 pages
• Test Packet – ©2013 Christian Liberty Press | 3 tests
PLUS select two of the following book report requirements
Great Expectations
Description: Set in early Victorian England, this novel follows the life of a tiny orphaned boy named Pip as he struggles with a desire for wealth and social status, and eventually discovers his own values and priorities.
Course Materials:
• Novel – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens | ©1860-1861 any unabridged edition
Gulliver's Travels
Description: Through his travels to strange lands, Gulliver discovers the virtues and flaws of his own culture as he compares it to others.
Course Materials:
• Novel – Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift | ©1726 any unabridged edition of Gulliver's Travels
The Portrait of a Lady
Description: This novel examines the differences between Europe and America through the life of a young American woman who moves to England and is caught in a struggle between independence and social propriety.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James | ©1881 any unabridged edition
Pride and Prejudice
Description: Set in Britain, this light-hearted novel follows the relationship of Elizabeth Bennet, one of five sisters who must marry into a wealthy family, and her perceived-to-be arrogant and conceited suitor, Fitzwillian Darcy. Both must overcome both pride and prejudice if their relationship is ever to develop.
Course Materials:
• Novel – Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen | ©1813 any unabridged edition
The Screwtape Letters
Description: This book, a treatise on the battle between good and evil, is a collection of letters from tempter Screwtape to his apprentice Wormwood on how to best cause the fall of an ordinary young man
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis | ©1942 any unabridged edition
GENERAL LITERATURE
20215 Themes in Literature
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–11th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
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.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Themes in Literature, 4th edition | ©2010 Abeka Book Publishers | 384 pages
• Supplemental Lessons – ©2011 Christian Liberty Press | 21 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©2010 Christian Liberty Press | 39 pages
• Test Packet – ©2011 Christian Liberty Press | 4 tests
PLUS select two of the following book report requirements
The Brethren
Description: Set in the climactic months before the opening of the Third Crusade, this novel 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.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Brethren: A Tale of the Crusades by H. Rider Haggard | ©1904 (2004 ed) Christian Liberty Press
In Freedom's Cause
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.
Course Materials:
• Novel – In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Wallace and Bruce by G.A. Henry | ©1998 Christian Liberty Press
Pearl Maiden
Description: This tale of faith tells the story of Miriam, a young Christian woman living in the Roman Empire during the first century, and Marcus, the Roman officer who desired to win her hand. Miriam’s faith is continually strengthened by the Lord as she faces hardships and fiery trials. The historic events portrayed in Pearl Maiden culminate in the Roman siege and destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in a.d. 70.
Course Materials:
• Novel – Pearl Maiden by H. Rider Haggard | ©1903 (2003 ed) Christian Liberty Press
GRAMMAR 9
49635 Applications of Grammar 3
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–11th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: In this course, the student will study parts of speech, writing mechanics and style, sentence structure, and clause types. In addition, the student will begin to learn how to apply these elements by composing short stories and essays of various types. This course also introduces the student to the basics of developing a writing style, as well as to journalistic and figurative writing.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Applications of Grammar Book 3: Analysis of Effective Communication | ©1998 (rev ed) Christian Liberty Press | 317 pages
• Answer Key – ©1998 Christian Liberty Press | 59 pages
• Test Packet – ©2009 Christian Liberty Press | 10 tests
40190 Grammar and Composition III
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–11th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course offers a study of English grammar and usage with emphasis on written communication skills. Grammar and usage topics include capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure and diagramming, verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Composition topics include manuscript form; the writing process; library research; making an outline; constructing paragraphs; expository writing; improving writing style; and writing précis, book reports, letters, and character and type sketches.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Grammar and Composition III Worktext, 5th edition | ©2010 Abeka Book Publishers | 435 pages
• Teacher Key – Grammar and Composition III Worktext Teacher Key, 5th edition | ©2010 Abeka Book Publishers | 466 pages
• Test Packet – Grammar and Composition III Student Quizzes/Tests, 5th edition | ©2010 Abeka Book Publishers | 29 quizzes & 12 tests
49130 Jensen's Grammar
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–11th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course offers a study of grammar usage and structure in 75 lessons with a focus on good sentence composition. Course includes 15 in-book tests.
Course Materials:
• Workbook 1 – Jensen's Grammar, Part 1, 4th edition | ©2000 Wordsmiths | 79 pages
• Workbook 2 – Jensen's Grammar, Part 2, 3rd edition | ©1998 Wordsmiths | 79 pages
• Workbook 3 – Jensen's Grammar, Part 3, 4th edition | ©1999 Wordsmiths | 79 pages
GRAMMAR 10
49740 Applications of Grammar 4
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is designed as a review of the basic elements of effective writing and a reinforcement of the fundamentals of grammar. This course is essentially divided in two parts—composition and grammar. The first part emphasizes the thinking process and develops a sound writing strategy. These basic elements of effective writing are then applied to writing an essay, a research paper, and an article of opinion. The second part focuses on grammar, highlighting various grammatical issues that are challenging or prone to error.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Applications of Grammar Book 4: Principles of Effective Communication | ©2018 (updated ed) Christian Liberty Press | 276 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©2018 Christian Liberty Press | 60 pages
• Test Packet – ©2018 Christian Liberty Press | 15 tests
40195 Grammar and Composition IV
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course offers a study of English grammar and usage with emphasis on written communication skills. Grammar and usage topics include capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure and diagramming, verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Composition topics include manuscript form; the writing process; using a dictionary; usage and diction; library research; making an outline; expository writing; improving writing style; and writing paragraphs, critical book reviews, précis, research papers, and character and type sketches.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Grammar and Composition IV Worktext, 4th edition | ©2011 Abeka Book Publishers | 424 pages
• Teacher Key – Grammar and Composition IV Worktext Teacher Key, 4th edition | ©2011 Abeka Book Publishers | 447 pages
• Test Packet – Grammar and Composition IV Student Quizzes/Tests, 4th edition | ©2011 Abeka Book Publishers | 20 quizzes & 12 tests
GRAMMAR 11
49650 Applications of Grammar 5
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course emphasizes the advanced principles of grammar and creative writing as well as vocabulary and spelling development. Students will study compound, concrete, abstract, and collective nouns; subject-verb agreement; transitive and intransitive verbs; subordinating conjunctions; adverbial, adjective, and elliptical clauses; appositives; and tense, voice, and mood of verbs. Student will then apply these concepts in the composition of various types of paragraphs and a research paper.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Applications of Grammar Book 5: Developing Communication Skills | ©1994 Christian Liberty Press | 127 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©1994 Christian Liberty Press | 101 pages
• Test Packet – ©2009 Christian Liberty Press | 8 tests
GRAMMAR 12
49660 Applications of Grammar 6
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course provides continued training in the advanced principles of grammar, punctuation, and composition, in addition to vocabulary and spelling development. Students will study participial phrases; gerunds; infinitives; various types of clauses; compound sentences; conjunctive adverbs; reflexive, intensive, and indefinite pronouns; grammatical agreement; voice, tense, mood, and conjugation of verbs; and figurative language. Composition projects teach students how to write narrative, descriptive, and argumentative paragraphs, and how to outline and write an essay.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Applications of Grammar Book 6: Mastering Communication Skills | ©1995 Christian Liberty Press | 211 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©1995 Christian Liberty Press | 163 pages
• Test Packet – ©2009 Christian Liberty Press | 16 tests
SPEECH
42300 Sound Speech
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: $40
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course introduces students to the various forms of public speaking, and teaches them how to choose topics, assess audiences, research their speech subjects, organize their speeches, and improve their delivery.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Sound Speech: Public Speaking & Communication Studies | ©2012 Bob Jones University Press | 340 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©2005 Christian Liberty Press | 22 pages
• Test Packet – ©2009 Christian Liberty Press | 6 tests
WORLD LITERATURE
20330 World Literature, 1st half
Suggested Grade Level: 9th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course presents a background to the study of world literature featuring the use of short story, essay, and narrative and descriptive poetry. Each reading selection includes author biographical information and questions to encourage thoughtful interaction and Christian character development. The textbook introduces the meaning and use of such literary terms and forms as: character development, narrative poetry, plot, imagery and figurative language, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, poetry patterns and forms, paradox, and setting. The course features classic literary works by such authors as Dickens, Browning, Frost, Holmes, Tennyson, Poe, Doyle, Keats, and Cummings.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – World Literature, 4th edition | ©2011 Abeka Book Publishers | 454 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©2012 Christian Liberty Press | 70 pages
• Test Packet – ©2012 Christian Liberty Press | 2 tests
PLUS select one of the following book report requirements
The Odyssey
Description: This long-standing classic tells the story of Odysseus as he struggles through many fantastic adventures to return to his wife and home after the end of the Trojan War.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Odyssey by Homer | ©—— any unabridged edition
The Pilgrim's Progress
Description: This classic allegory tells the tale of a pilgrim's journey, with its many trials and temptations, to the Celestial City.
Course Materials:
• Novel – The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan | ©1678 any unabridged edition
20335 World Literature, 2nd half
Suggested Grade Level: 10th–12th
Academic Credit: 0.5
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: World Literature, 1st half
Description: This course presents a background to the study of world literature featuring the use of short story, essay, and narrative and descriptive poetry. Each reading selection includes author biographical information and questions to encourage thoughtful interaction and Christian character development. The textbook introduces the meaning and use of such literary terms and forms as: character development, narrative poetry, plot, imagery and figurative language, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, poetry patterns and forms, paradox, and setting. The course features classic literary works by such authors as Dickens, Browning, Frost, Holmes, Tennyson, Poe, Doyle, Keats, and Cummings.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – World Literature, 4th edition | ©2011 Abeka Book Publishers | 454 pages
• Teacher's Manual – ©2012 Christian Liberty Press | 70 pages
• Test Packet – ©2012 Christian Liberty Press | 2 tests
PLUS select one of the following book report requirements
Don Quixote
Description: Considered by some as the first modern novel, this epic story follows the life of the "mad" Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza through their satirical exploits of chivalry during seventeenth-century Spain.
Course Materials:
• Novel – Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | ©1605 any unabridged edition
King Lear
Description: This tragic play is the story of a British king who, after retiring from power, learns at great expense the many facets of human nature—both good and bad.
Course Materials:
• Novel – King Lear by William Shakespeare | ©1608 any unabridged edition
REMEDIAL GRAMMAR
49625 Applications of Grammar 2
Suggested Grade Level: 8th–10th
Academic Credit: 0.5 (if assigned at the high school level)
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course focuses on reviewing the basics of English grammar. Topics include parts of speech, vocabulary building, diagramming and writing sentences, verb conjugation, subject-verb agreement, using phrases and clauses properly, and the basics of good composition.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Applications of Grammar Book 2: Structure for Communicating Effectively | ©1996 (rev ed) Christian Liberty Press | 256 pages
• Answer Key – ©1996 Christian Liberty Press | 43 pages
• Test Packet – ©2009 Christian Liberty Press | 12 tests
40185 Grammar and Composition II
Suggested Grade Level: 8th–10th
Academic Credit: 0.5 (if assigned at the high school level)
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course offers a study of English grammar and usage with emphasis on written communication skills. Grammar and usage topics include capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure and diagramming, verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Composition topics include manuscript form; the writing process; using a library; making an outline; constructing paragraphs; writing summaries, book reports, descriptions, and research papers; and improving writing style.
Course Materials:
• Workbook – Grammar and Composition II Worktext, 6th edition | ©2009 Abeka Book Publishers | 396 pages
• Teacher Key – Grammar and Composition II Worktext Teacher Key, 6th edition | ©2009 Abeka Book Publishers | 411 pages
• Practice Tests – Grammar and Composition II Student Quizzes/Tests, 6th edition | ©2009 Abeka Book Publishers | 22 quizzes & 12 tests
• CLH Test Packet – ©2020 Christian Liberty Press | 11 tests
REMEDIAL LITERATURE
20400 Of Places Literature
Suggested Grade Level: 8th–10th
Academic Credit: 0.5 (if assigned at the high school level)
Additional Course Charge: None
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course provides a thematic study of classic literature, primarily written by English and American authors. The selections of fiction and non-fiction stories and poetry are arranged in units by settings. Locations highlighted include At Home, At School, Throughout America, Around the World, About the Sea, and Upon the Mountains. Featured authors include Christie, Whittier, Frost, Longfellow, Irving, Wesley, Kipling, Hawthorne, O. Henry, and Dickinson. A separate booklet of supplementary lessons published by Christian Liberty Press introduces literary terms such as plot and climax, personification, simile and metaphor, rhythm and meter, allusion, rhyme scheme, and apostrophe.
Course Materials:
• Textbook – Of Places Literature, 5th edition | ©2018 Abeka Book Publishers | 409 pages
• Answer Key – ©2019 Christian Liberty Press | 40 pages
• Test Packet – ©2019 Christian Liberty Press | 12 tests
PLUS select two of the following book report requirements
David Livingstone: Man of Prayer and Action
Description: The life of David Livingstone clearly testifies to the fact that God can change the direction of history through the life of just one soul. Well over one hundred years have passed since this famous missionary to Africa departed this earth. Read this inspiring biography to learn why Livingstone's work has had such a lasting legacy. His dream was to end the slave trade in Africa and establish Christianity and lawful commerce on the continent—a dream that was finally realized after his death. Explore the inspiring life of this courageous Scottish missionary and doctor who believed that "the salvation of men ought to be the chief desire and aim of every Christian."
Course Materials:
• Biography – David Livingstone: Man of Prayer and Action by C. Sylvester Horne | ©1999 Christian Liberty Press
Robert E. Lee, the Christian
Description: Robert E. Lee is one of the most iconic figures in American history. While many will disagree with his decision to serve in the Confederate army, his personal character has never been besmirched. Robert E. Lee has long been an inspiration to Americans in general and Christians in particular, regardless of one's view of the Civil War. Lee's character and ability have attracted admirers from all sides. Johnstone covers both Lee's personal and public life in detail—often showcasing a character quality, military instance of note, or a letter he sent—but always connects them to his trust in Christ.
Course Materials:
• Biography – Robert E. Lee, the Christian, 2nd edition by William J. Johnstone | ©2010 Christian Liberty Press
Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans
Description: Charles Haddon Spurgeon is considered by many to be one of God's choicest gifts to His church in Britain, and even throughout the world. From the day of his conversion as a lad of sixteen until the day of his death, he had a single eye to the glory of God. Molded by the Puritans and standing in their noble tradition, he lived for God in the pulpit, in the study, in the home, and in the ministries he founded. This biography inspires us to walk in this great heritage.
Course Materials:
• Biography – Spurgeon: Heir of the Puritans by Ernest W. Bacon | ©1967 Christian Liberty Press