Literature 330

20th Century World History

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Learn how to impact the 21st Century!

This year your students will read 37 books that will transport them to different places and times throughout the 20th Century. Some will inspire. Others will disturb. All are chosen to help them understand how our culture views reality. With the help of your Core 300 Instructor's Guide you will have many lively discussions with your older students as you prepare them to stand strong in our post-Christian culture.

Literature Program 330

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The Tempest

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A decade and a half after great treachery, the paths of the betrayed and the betrayer again cross. Includes a measure of mistaken identity, romance, and reconciliation. Modern English side-by-side wit...

Children of the River

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Multiple award-winner. A stunning tale of cultural pressures felt by a Cambodian girl who finds herself a refugee in late 20th Century United States.

Parallel Journeys

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How did Hitler get normal German citizens to do his evil will? The author interweaves the personal narratives of Helen Waterford, a German Jewish woman who got married only days after Hitler came to p...

The Great Brain

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Tom, The Great Brain, puts his mind to use in creating all manner of hilarious mischief in a turn-of-the-century Utah town!

Heart of Darkness

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Set in turn-of-the-century Congo, West Africa, Heart of Darkness is considered one of this century's literary masterpieces. A study in human corruption and despair.

Murder on the Orient Express

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The famed Belgian detective Hercule Poirot is traveling on the unusually crowded Orient Express when a notorious gangster is found murdered.

The Great Gatsby

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The quintessential novel of "Roaring 20s" America.

The Metamorphosis

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Classic Kafka: the story of a young man who, transformed into a giant insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family and an outsider in his own home. Asks what it means to be truly and fully huma...

Brave New World

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A bleak look at a utopian world in which human beings are made to love servitude and totalitarian government.

Kon-Tiki

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A classic true tale of men against the sea . . . and against scientific orthodoxy: how six young men proved, in 1947, that a prehistoric voyage from South America to Polynesia was possible — con...

Cry, the Beloved Country

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The magnificent, deeply moving story of a dignified Zulu pastor and his son in mid-20th Century South Africa: a land driven by racial injustice. A classic work of love, hope, courage and endurance. Sa...

The Old Man and the Sea

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A towering story of man against nature, victory in defeat. Haunting and deep.

The Contender

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Alfred Brooks, an inner-city high school dropout, learns, through the disciplines of boxing, what it takes to win the battles of life. Fascinating, moving, and--trade places--all too real!

The Moves Make the Man

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Jerome Foxworthy tells the story of his friend, a white boy named Bix. Basketball--played straight or with fakes--becomes an allegory for life. Engrossing. Brilliantly written.

The Great Gilly Hopkins

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A foster girl learns what true love is and what it means to belong. Riveting. A book you'll read over and over.

Walk Two Moons

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A deep, exquisitely-textured story, full of symbolism, about a 13-year-old girl, her parents and grandparents, and about relationships, living and dying. A story that will call forth tears.

Alas, Babylon

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An engaging modern-day Robinson Crusoe adventure: survival after a nuclear attack that destroys all civilization outside the confines of a small Florida town.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Nobel Prize-winning author tells the story of one man and "just one of the three thousand six hundred and fifty-three days of his sentence" in a Siberian prison camp during Stalin's rule.

Heart to Heart

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This book combines full-color reprints of famous American works of art (Harper, Pollock, Man Ray, Lichtenstein, O'Keeffe, and many more) accompanied by poems.

The Wave

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When a history teacher tests the power of peer pressure, his experiment gains frightening momentum beyond his control. Two students, Laurie and David, realize they must stop a dangerous movement befor...

My Father's Daughter

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Young Winston Carmichael and his handicapped younger sister have been virtual prisoners in their mansion since birth. Years before, their elder half sister, Caroline was kidnapped. Believed dead, she...

The Wednesday Wars

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Holling is a 7th-grade boy forced to spend Wednesday afternoons dissecting Shakespeare with his teacher who, he is certain, "hates his guts." You'll grow with him through the uproars of adolescence an...

Robert Frost's Poems

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Because of his accessibility and pleasing depictions of rural life, Frost is, perhaps, one of the most appealing of the 20th Century poets. Enjoy all of the master poet's best-loved works, and dozens...

Hope Was Here

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This is "comfort food" in print! Hope and her aunt move from New York to Wisconsin to run a diner. The kind owner runs for mayor against the corrupt incumbent. Hope's positive determination will leave...

Darkness at Noon

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This masterwork, written by a recently converted former Communist, presents the story of a revolutionary who is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he had dedicated his life....