Illuminating Literature: When Worlds Collide Set

Your teens will appreciate the unstuffy way Sharon Watson teaches literature. They’ll read some great novels, encounter the hero’s journey, learn literary terms and elements, and gain an appreciation for fine literature. College-prep students and reluctant readers alike benefit from this engaging literature course. This is the first volume in a series. However, students may take this and the second volume Illuminating Literature: Characters in Crisis in any order. They are not sequential.

By the end of “Characters in Crisis”, your teen will have learned almost 100 literary terms and devices as they occur naturally in the selections. They’ll also gain an appreciation for fine literature and be aware of the powerful tools authors use to get in your teen’s head.

Features:

• Written for Christian high schools, homeschools, and co-ops.
• Two-semester course earning one credit for language arts or English.
• 70 lessons
• Student-directed, with clear lessons and reading schedules.
• Monthly lesson plan provided in teacher’s guide.
• Complete novels or stories, not just passages.
• Christian worldview
• No prerequisites necessary

The course is comprised of:

• Student Text – consumable, if teaching more than one student, extras can be purchased here.
• Teacher’s Guide
• Novel Notebook – free download link provided in details below – required element of the course and coordinates with the textbook. Students will answer questions in it, collect favorite passages, and draw conclusions about what they’ve just read.

Optional Item: Quiz and Answer Manual
It is for those who prefer that their students take the quizzes and opinion surveys on paper instead of online.Consumable, purchase one per student. In here, you’ll find the “Yes, I read it” quizzes, literary terms quizzes, and opinion surveys for each book and short story your students read in this course. Grading grids and answers for all the lessons, discussions, and quizzes are found in the textbook. Quizzes, when taken online, are graded for you and are free. (Passwords are found in both textbook and teacher’s guide.)

Students will read these books:

• Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
• The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
• The Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
• Peter Pan by Sir James Barrie
• Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis

Please note: An exclusive feature of this course is that the textbook is keyed to specific page numbers of the novels and play. Students using the coordinating versions of the books (listed above) will easily find the examples referenced in the textbook. This will reduce wasted time and needless frustration.  The novels can be purchased individually or in the complete bundle we have put together for your convenience.