Literature 430

Civics/American Government

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American Literature

Prepare them to confront their culture!

  • Well-paced, our Literature 400 program will introduce your students to Biblical and historical themes as well as advanced-level American literature.
  • Your students will read 29 great books this year as they learn to analyze, understand and confront our culture from a confident, compassionate, biblical perspective.
  • We intersperce modern classics with older works to keep your student's interest.

American Literature Program 430-00

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Sonlight seeks to introduce students to some of the greatest and best-loved literature of all time.

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The Scarlet Letter

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A study of the tension between public and private morality, The Scarlet Letter carved new paths in American literary technique and substance.

The Portable Poe

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Poe was perhaps the most melancholy and deeply brooding author in American history.

The View from Saturday

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Four friends from a class of social outcasts attempt to win an Academic Bowl with the help of their encouraging teacher. Sarita says, "As a two-time Newbery Medal winner, you know she has a good writi...

Best Short Stories of O. Henry

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This collection offers for readers' delight the thirty-eight 0. Henry stories honored almost unanimously by anthologists and that represent, in variety and balance, the best work of America's favorite...

Walden and Civil Disobedience

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In March, 1845, Henry David Thoreau built himself a wooden hut on the edge of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived until September 1847.

Belle Prater's Boy

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When Belle Prater disappears, her son Woodrow moves in with his grandparents, right next door to his cousin Gypsy and her family.

Moby-Dick

or, The Whale
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Called "the Greatest American Novel" by Atlantic Monthly, Moby-Dick is the story of a deranged whaling ship's captain Ahab as he pursues the white whale Moby-Dick.

Crazy Lady!

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As he tries to come to terms with his mother's death, Vernon finds solace in his growing relationship with the neighborhood outcasts, a "crazy" lady named Maxine and her retarded son Ronald.

Julie of the Wolves

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To her small Eskimo village, she is Miyax. To her pen pal in San Francisco, she is Julie. At 13, Miyax is an orphan and unhappily married. She runs away from her husband's parents' home in hopes of ge...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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"Notice. Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. -By...

The Day They Came to Arrest the Book

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Who would have believed that The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn could cause the worst crisis in the history of George Mason High School?

My Antonia

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H.L. Mencken once wrote, "No romantic novel ever written in America, by man or woman, is one half so beautiful as My Antonia."

Bud, Not Buddy

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It's 1936 in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy who never knew his father, but Bud's got a few things going for him.

Our Town

A Play in Three Acts
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Pulitzer Prize. One of the most popular American dramas of all time, Our Town recalls three time periods in the life of residents of a small Connecticut town. It calls us to focus on the "little thing...

Jacob Have I Loved

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Louise knows that she should be proud of her beautiful twin Caroline. But she is convinced that, ever since they were born, Caroline has done nothing but take from her: their parents' love, Louise's h...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Betty Smith's frank writing about life's squalor and the book's humor and pathos ensured its place in the realm of classics. The New York Public Library has rated it "one of the books of the century."...

The Grapes of Wrath

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Nobel Prize. "One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century."

The Crucible

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Though it refers to historical people and real events, this classic play about the witch hunts and trials in 17th century Salem, Massachusetts, is really an a-historical study of the debilitating powe...

The Chosen

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In 1940s Brooklyn, an accident throws Reuven Malther and Danny Saunders together. Despite their differences (Reuven is a secular Jew with an intellectual, Zionist father; Danny is the brilliant son an...

The Outsiders

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An astonishing look at cross-cultural communication and conflict in modern, white America.

The Giver

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In a nameless utopian community in a future time, everything is under control. There is no war or fear of pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community.

100 Best-Loved Poems

Edited by Philip Smith
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Includes some of the best-loved English and American verse of all time -- Rudyard Kipling's "If," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Village Blacksmith," John Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and many ot...