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 9th through 12th graders who will be studying a course in history about this time period (1611-1850).

Objectives:
1. The student will read examples of the literature written during this period.
2. The student will read selected historical fictions about this period.
3. The student will learn 15 - 20 vocabulary words a week.
4. The student will learn the form for critical writing using acceptable grammar.
5. The student will develop a pleasing writing style.
6. The student will write and re-write eight (8) argumentative papers.
7. The student will study an objective method of poetic interpretation.
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--The Scarlet Letter
Week 4--The Scarlet Letter
Week 5--The Misanthrope
Week 6--Writing Lessons
Week 7--The Pilgrim's Progress
Week 8--The Pilgrim's Progress
Week 9--Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson
Week 10--Selected Essays of Jonathan Swift
Week 11--Selected Poems of Alexander Pope
Week 12--Writing Lessons
Week 13--Robinson Crusoe
Week 14--Robinson Crusoe
Week 15--Robinson Crusoe
Week 16--Robinson Crusoe
Week 17--She Stoops to Conquer
Week 18--Writing Lessons
Week 19--The Vicar of Wakefield
Week 20--The Vicar of Wakefield
Week 21--Frankenstein
Week 22--Frankenstein
Week 23--Writing Lessons
Week 24--A Tale of Two Cities
Week 25--A Tale of Two Cities
Week 26--A Tale of Two Cities
Week 27--Selected Poems of William Wordsworth
Week 28--Writing Lessons
Week 29--Silas Marner
Week 30--Silas Marner
Week 31--Billy Budd
Week 32--Writing Lessons
Week 33--Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Week 34--Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Week 35--Selected Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Week 36--Writing Lessons