World Literature:

Class:  World Literature

Tutor:  Stephanie Cardel (and Cindy Phiffer- professional editor)

Primary Text:  No main text.  Instructor will provide handouts or online reading assignments for short stories, poetry and selections of text as we go along.

Other books/materials:

Beowulf translated by Burton Raffel

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Out of Bounds by Beverly Naidoo (This is also hard to come by.  We may read it as an e-book or I may find something else.)

Yearly Tuition:  $288     Copy Fee:  $15

With this tuition rate, I must have a minimum of 8 and maximum of 15 students. 

Overview of class:

    This class will take a cultural approach to world literature by focusing on different regions of the world and doing a chronological survey of the great masterpieces and authors that came from them.  We will include Ancient Greece, Italy, South Africa, Russia, France, China, Great Britain, Germany, the Middle East/India and America.  As we do a survey of the literature from that region, students will also read a classic novel and/or short stories and poetry from that region that we will study in depth.  Our weekly quizzes will cover literary terminology as well as vocabulary from the novels that we read.  Within each unit on a world region, students will be assigned creative essays.  In an effort to build essay writing skills, these essays will be edited by a professional editor and handed back for re-writes.  Unit tests will cover historical and cultural information, authors, famous quotations from works, as well as essay questions about the novel.

No prerequisites

Recommended Grade Level:  10-12

Estimated Difficulty:  average to above average

Average study time for this class will be approximately 5-6 hours per week.

Additional comments:  My goal is that by the end of the year students will have a broad general knowledge of literature that will allow them to recognize literary allusions and quotations and references to authors.  I also hope to prepare them sufficiently for writing the college entrance or ACT essays that they will face.