Survey of American Literature is recommended for students who will be studying a one-year course in United States history. This is a 36-week course, which requires the reading of the following texts (for a description of the work, click on the title): Mourt's Relation, The Scarlet Letter, The Captivity of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Selected Works of Poe, Selected Stories of Hawthorne, Selected Poems of Longfellow, Billy Budd, Walden, A South-side View of Slavery, The Red Badge of Courage, The Sack and Destruction of Columbia, South Carolina, Up from Slavery, Selected Stories of Twain, Selected Stories of Wharton, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Selected Poems of Frost, and I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition.

All texts must be ordered separately from the course. See below for ordering instructions for the texts.

The course package includes:
Student's Study Guide (click here for an example).
A Guide to Critical Writing, Grammar, and Style (click here for an example): A total of 35 lessons in critical writing and rewriting.
26 Vocabulary Quizzes
8 Writing Assignments (with 5 optional impromptu essays): Students will practice the classical form for argument with the argumentative paper.
Suggested Schedule of daily work.
Information about evaluating written work with grading scale.