Survey of British Literature

This package includes these 29 items:

Catalog Number	Title	Our Regular Price	Core Club Price
530-01	British Literature Instructor's Guide	$72.50	$65.25
530-02	Sound and Sense Answer Key	$12.50	$11.25
530-10	The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes	$13.00	$11.70
530-13	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass	$8.95	$8.06
530-16	Beowulf	$13.95	$12.56
530-19	Canterbury Quintet	$15.95	$14.36
530-22	Dubliners	$2.00	$1.80
530-25	Emma	$7.95	$7.16
530-28	Frankenstein	$8.00	$7.20
530-31	The Great Divorce	$13.99	$12.59
530-34	Gulliver's Travels	$7.95	$7.16
530-37	Hamlet	$6.95	$6.26
530-40	The Importance of Being Earnest	$1.50	$1.35
530-43	Lord of the Flies	$9.99	$8.99
530-46	Paradise Lost	$12.00	$10.80
530-49	A Passage to India	$14.00	$12.60
530-52	Peter Pan	$4.95	$4.46
530-55	Pygmalion	$2.00	$1.80
530-58	Right Ho, Jeeves	$9.45	$8.51
530-61	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	$2.00	$1.80
530-64	The Secret Sharer & Other Stories	$2.00	$1.80
530-67	A Severe Mercy	$13.99	$12.59
530-70	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight	$15.00	$13.50
530-73	Sound and Sense	$92.95	$83.66
530-76	A Tale of Two Cities	$11.00	$9.90
530-79	Three Men in a Boat	$11.00	$9.90
530-82	Word Power Made Easy	$7.99	$7.19
530-85	Wuthering Heights	$7.00	$6.30
B530	Binder with Tabs for Core 530	$7.95	$7.16
Total Price :		$402.43	$362.19
If you are a Core Sonlighter then you can save $40.24 on this package of 29 items.

 

You may wish to use this program, with no modification, as the basis for teaching one or more students in 11th through 12th grades for one year. We do not recommend this program for use with students below 9th grade. Though a literature program only, this package qualifies you for membership in the Sonlighter's Club.

Join us on an expedition through some of the finest literature ever written! Selections include comedy, tragedy, epic poetry, detective stories, romance novels, historical fiction, satire, adventure, Arthurian (King Arthur) narratives, fantasy, travelogue, autobiography, Gothic horror, and Christian allegory.

We start with an Old English text, Beowulf, an epic poem written when the Christian gospel first came to the pagan Anglos. We then meet Sir Gawain, a knight of the Round Table who struggles with temptation and the superficiality of King Arthur's court. We enjoy Chaucer's wit and wisdom as he regales us with some of his most popular tales, then ponder the human condition as it is expressed in Shakespeare's incredible tragedy, Hamlet. Later, we read several novels and short stories.

Interspersed among and between our forays into famous "Great Conversation" texts like these, we get to relax in the presence of more popular characters and stories about Sherlock Holmes, Peter Pan, and P. G. Wodehouse's famous butler, Jeeves.

You will discover several thought-provoking, insightful, and influential Christian works along the path: works like Milton's Paradise Lost and C. S. Lewis' Great Divorce.

And then, coming from "the other side," experience the horror of life without laws or God in works like Golding's Lord of the Flies, Forster's Passage to India, and Shelley's Frankenstein.

One of our goals in this program is to prepare students for the Advanced Placement (AP) exam. If you take and pass the exam, you receive college credit. But better than that, you prepare yourself for a lifetime of scholarly exploits

To help you prepare for the exam, we provide definitions and examples of literary terms, as well as questions about individual texts.

Poetry plays a major role in the AP exam, and so, with this in mind, we offer Sound and Sense, an incredible introduction to the meaning and structure of poetry in general, as well as to many wonderful poems.

To help you prepare not only for the AP exam, but for the SAT and ACT tests as well, we highlight--as we do in other Sonlight^® Instructor's Guides--the difficult words you'll find in your texts. We also offer Word Power Made Easy, an intensive vocabulary study that pays special attention to Greek and Latin roots.

Besides the benefits we've already mentioned, your Instructor's Guide will help you by providing short biographical sketches about each author, study notes, comprehension questions, and composition guidelines.

There is no 4-day-per-week schedule.

Estimated time requirement on Five-Day/36-week schedule for a single student studying all subjects, including the Core Program, Science, Math, and Language Arts:Child: 6 - 8 hrs/day; Parent: 1½ - 2 hrs/day direct involvement, availability for remainder of time.