

INSPIRE HOMESCHOOL ACADEMY
World Literature and Composition
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This literature-based integrated course provides students with an opportunity to become familiar with a wide range of literary forms, themes, cultures, and periods while developing proficiency in the use of grammar/usage and mechanics in their compositions. Emphasis is placed on reader comprehension and higher order thinking. Students will analyze various works of literature (i.e. short stories, poems, song lyrics, etc.) through oral discussion and in written compositions. They will produce various types of compositions and research projects.
Class time: 9:00am - 9:55am - Tuesday
Recommended Age/Grade: 9th -12th grade High School
Instructor: Mrs. Traci McPherson
Cost: $50 a month
Supply Fee: $10
Class size is limited to 8 Seats
Course Requirement
Text Needed: Excellence in Literature: World Literature by Janice Campbell
(Plus eBook if you desire for extra resources)
Purchase book and ebook here http://excellence-in-literature.com/
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Supplies: 1 in. 3 ring binder, loose-leaf paper, 5 subject dividers, pencils, pens
Additional: laptop computer, access to a WORD format program and PowerPoint program
Possible Literature Studied and additional books needed will be:
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The Odyssey by Homer
Antigone by Sophocles
The Aeneid by Virgil
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
The Portable Nineteenth-Century Russian Reader
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
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Note: Do NOT purchase books until you get a welcome letter from your teacher!
Laptops/tablets will need to be brought to class at various times with access to a WORD format program and PowerPoint program
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