Grade 9

The student will learn about Early American Literature (1600-1800), the Puritans (John Smith, William Bradford, John Winthrop), the colonists (Mary Rowlandson, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, Samuel Sewall), days of change and revolution.

This unit is one unit in a series of five independent study units of instruction designed to build knowledge and skills with a focus on higher order thinking skills. Each unit includes direct instruction to the student, practice activities, critical-thinking exercises and all necessary quizzes and tests. Great as a homeschool American Literature course for high school.

Students will learn about the Romantic Period 1800-1855; a new nation (Irving, Cooper, Bryant), fireside poets (Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes), transcendentalists (Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman), poets of despair (Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson).

This unit is one unit in a series of five independent study units of instruction designed to build knowledge and skills with a focus on higher order thinking skills. Each unit includes direct instruction to the student, practice activities, critical-thinking exercises and all necessary quizzes and tests. Great as a homeschool American Literature course for high school.

The student will learn about the War and Reconciliation (1855-1915), secession and loyalty, realism and naturalism, naturalists, regionalists, and realists.

This unit is one unit in a series of five independent study units of instruction designed to build knowledge and skills with a focus on higher order thinking skills. Each unit includes direct instruction to the student, practice activities, critical-thinking exercises and all necessary quizzes and tests. Great as a homeschool American Literature course for high school.

The student will learn about the Modern Age 1915-1946; modern prose, modern poetry other modern age literature, harlem renaissance, drama, and religious works.

This unit is one unit in a series of five independent study units of instruction designed to build knowledge and skills with a focus on higher order thinking skills. Each unit includes direct instruction to the student, practice activities, critical-thinking exercises and all necessary quizzes and tests. Great as a homeschool American Literature course for high school.

The student will learn about the Modern to Post-modern 1946-present; birth of postmodernism (O'Connor, Roethke), contemporary writers (Welty, Updike, Robert Spence Lowell, Jr.), social issues (Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks).

This unit is one unit in a series of five independent study units of instruction designed to build knowledge and skills with a focus on higher order thinking skills. Each unit includes direct instruction to the student, practice activities, critical-thinking exercises and all necessary quizzes and tests. Great as a homeschool American Literature course for high school.

This literature study guide provides students with insights into each book as well as essay questions that challenge them to write critically and form their own conclusions about the major themes and/or lessons from each book.
The books covered in this course include:
Up from Slavery
Michael Faraday
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Hiding Place
Did Man Just Happen?
Robinson Crusoe

This kit includes the Literature 9 Study guide, answer key and 6 resource books

The Literature 9 study guide provides students with insights into each book as well as essay questions that challenge them to write critically and form their own conclusions about the major themes and/or lessons from each book.

The books covered in this course include:
Up from Slavery
Michael Faraday
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Hiding Place
Did Man Just Happen?
Robinson Crusoe

This Jules Verne classic will take you on an action packed undersea expedition with Captain Nemo.

This teacher's guide includes basic teaching ideas and instructions for the teacher/instructor, all of the answers to the problems in the student worktexts as well as alternate tests should a student need to repeat a final test.

This answer key corresponds with the Basic Literature 9 study guide, which covers six books for the school year.