Learning Language Arts Through Literature: The Gold Book - Literary Criticism Textbook

Learning Language Arts Through Literature - The Gold Book - Literary Criticism provides homeschoolers with a complete language arts high school course. Designed to help prepare students for college level writing, all the writing assignments are based on literature and intended to challenge the student's ability to think critically. Students will be introduced to different methods of literary criticism and given instructions on how to write essays. By the end of the course, the student will have written a short memoir, a college essay, nine five-paragraph essays, three five-page essays, and one ten-page essay.

Easy-to-use for both student and teacher, this book is designed for self-directed students with answers for the teacher in the back of the book.

The Gold Book - Literary Criticism is designed for 11th and 12th grade students and is organized by following literary criticism techniques:

• Focus on the Reader

• Focus on the Author
• Focus on the Culture, Society, History
• Focus on the Work
• Focus on Poetry
• Focus on Satire

To complete the assignments in this book, the student will need access to the internet and/or a library as well as the following books (NOT included & sold-separately):

• A Literary Criticism Anthology, published by Common Sense Press

• Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom, published by Broadway Books
• Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, published by Ace Trade
• The Trial by Franz Kafka, translated by Breon Mitchell, published by Schocken Books
• No Fear Shakespeare, Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, published by Spark Publishing
• The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas, published by Townsend Press, Inc.