Middle School World Literature, 2-Semester Course (Independent Use Student License)

Description

This course provides an exciting journey through world mythology, classic stories and fairy tales. The literature selections provide a platform for understanding other cultures, while exploring themes of virtue, integrity, courage, and the importance of preserving liberty. Students will gain fluency with a variety of literary devices. Students will also study biography as a form of literature, and be introduced to East Indian poetry.

Part 1 Readings for this course are The Children’s Homer, by Padraic Colum; Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew for Children, by James Baldwin; The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths, by Padraic Colum; The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry; and Chinese Fairy Tales

Part 2 Readings for this course are Russian Fairy Tales; The Endless Steppe, by Esther Hautzig; Jewish Fairy Tales; The Arabian Nights (Illustrated Junior Library); African Fairy Tales; and the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.

(1 Student Independent Use license; includes 36 lessons)