Goal: To have the student develop a love for reading fine literature and to write with conviction while using a clear and pleasing writing style.

Recommended Grade Level: This course is recommended for 10th through 12th graders who are studying a one-year course in United States history.

Objectives:
1. The student will be acquainted with major authors and poets of the United States.
2. The student will read examples from different philosophical schools.
3. The student will consider the philosophical shifts from republicanism and liberty toward statism and socialism.
4. The student will learn 15 - 20 vocabulary words a week.
5. The student will learn the form for critical writing using acceptable grammar.
6. The student will develop a pleasing writing style.
7. The student will write and re-write eight (8) argumentative papers.
8. The student will evaluate the literature by applying a Biblical worldview and will interpret the literature solely on the integrity of the text alone.

Week 1--Mourt's Relation
Week 2--Writing Lessons
Week 3--Scarlet Letter
Week 4--Scarlet Letter
Week 5--Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes of Mary Rowlandson
Week 6--Works of Jonathan Edwards
Week 7--Writing Lessons
Week 8--Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Week 9--Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Week 10--Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Week 11--Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
Week 12--Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Week 13--Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Week 14--Writing Lessons
Week 15--Billy Budd
Week 16--Walden
Week 17--Walden
Week 18--Walden
Week 19--Writing Lessons
Week 20--Southside View of Slavery
Week 21--Southside View of Slavery
Week 22--Red Badge of Courage
Week 23--Red Badge of Courage
Week 24--Writing Lessons
Week 25--The Sack and Destruction of Columbia SC
Week 26--Up from Slavery
Week 27--Up from Slavery
Week 28--Writing Lessons
Week 29--Short Stories of Mark Twain
Week 30--Short Stories of Edith Wharton
Week 31--Writing Lessons
Week 32--Autobiogrphy of an Ex-Colored Man
Week 33--Poetry of Robert Frost
Week 34--I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Week 35--I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Week 36--I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition