Highlights of American Literature
Subtitle: Book 1
Edition: First
Series: Highlights of American Literature
Publisher: Carl Bode
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 108
Subjects: Literature; Reading; American Litearture
Genres: Fiction
First sentence: The first American literature was neither American nor really literature...
Description: A Course in American Literature for the advanced study of English.
HIGHLIGHTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE consists of a series of four volumes containing selections from the wide range of American literature, from its beginnings to the modern period. The four volumes of the literature series form part of a larger series prepared as an Advanced Study Course in English for foreign students. Another part of the series, entitled HERITAGE OF FREEDOM, is composed of four volumes dealing with American history.
In the history series, vocabulary items beyond the 3,000 word level have been placed in a glossary found at the end of each volume. No attempt, however, has been made to simplify the literary selections; consequently, the literature volumes will be more difficult for your students to read than the history volumes, which are written with some degree of controlled structure and vocabulary. Because of the higher level of difficulty of HIGHLIGHTS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE, the selections will require more classroom work than those of HERITAGE OF FREEDOM. If your classes have sufficient command of English to be able to handle the literature without much difficulty, you may want to consider teaching the literature and history series dealing with the same chronological period simultaneously. If not, each volume is organized so that it may be taught as a separate unit.
Although intended primarily as reading material for students who have finished a basic course in English (three or four years or about 360 hours), the Advanced Study Course can also be used by more advanced groups interested in studying the literature and history of the United States. With such groups, of course, you will have to spend less time
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