High School Literature 4: The Modern Era

Classical Track

$549.00 for LIVE

$249.00 for Self-Paced

The tricky part of creating a syllabus for the late 19th and 20th centuries is deciding what to leave out. There's so much to read and so little time, but this is an amazing course with a stunning and challenging syllabus. Literature 4: The Modern Era is perfect for the literary-minded high school junior or senior. We span a wide variety of works including books by Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Twain, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Orwell, and finish with a memorable novel from the 21st century.

This class meets on Wednesdays at 12 pm, Eastern Standard Time.

Note: Space is limited. Be sure to enroll early to secure your spot.

  • STUDENT EXPECTATIONS

    • Attend a one-hour, weekly, live course session

    • Complete each week’s assigned reading

    • Take a short, online, comprehension quiz

    • Answer a weekly, online, discussion question each week

    • Submit two literary analysis papers and one creative project.

  • • Students have access to recorded lectures from their course and can choose which books to read and in what order.

    • Students will have access to weekly reading pacing guides and auto-grade quizzes.

    • This class does not include live class sessions or teacher support.

    • All recordings will be available from September 2 through the end of the following August.

  • There are many options for acquiring these books. You can order them from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or another online retailer. If you want to save money, you can check them out of the library. For most of them, you can get e-book versions or access them online and read them on your computer screen.

    Please note any particular edition or translation, as those are the ones you need; if no specifics are included, any version will work.

    David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens

    Miscellaneous Poems by Whitman and Dickinson (No need to obtain anything; I have provided the poems in Canvas, including “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”)

    Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Pevear & Volokhonsky translation)

    The Return of the Native, by Thomas Hardy

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

    The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Modernist Poetry (No need to obtain anything; I have provided the poems in Canvas.)

    Our Town, by Thornton Wilder

    Go Down, Moses, by William Faulkner

    Animal Farm, by George Orwell

    The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway

    The Crucible, by Arthur Miller

    Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

    To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

    Flannery O’Connor Short Stories (There are several collections that include the stories we’ll be reading – see list below – but I’ve also provided the stories in Canvas, so it’s not necessary to purchase a book.)

    • “A Good Man is Hard to Find”

    • “Everything That Rises Must Converge”

    Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger