“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
-A C Grayling
In this course students are going to interact with some of the greatest literary
masterpieces ever crafted in this country. They will read some of the greatest American novelists such as Herman Melville and Mark Twain, poets such as Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and essayists such as Ralph Waldo Emerson. While reading, they will be required to identify the ways which this literature speaks to both the human condition and, more specifically, the American condition. Students will analyze these writings from a Biblical world view and they will learn to defend and articulate their analysis.
Textbooks for the Class;
- American Literature For Christian Schools, BJU
- Last of the Mohicans, Cooper
- Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, Twain
- Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
- Billy Budd, Melville
- Red Badge of Courage, Crane
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Old Man and The Sea, Hemingway
