Elements of Literature, Second Edition Lesson Plan Overview Day(s) Topic Pages Support Materials Bible Integration Unit 1: Imaginative Comparison 1 Marks and Modes of Literature Visual Analysis xi–3 The first poem (Gen. 2:23) Discussion: Poetry in the Bible Scriptural Application: Aesthetics in a biblical worldview Enrichment: Analyze poetic passages in Scripture 2–3 Imaginative Comparison 3–5 Teaching Help 1A Scriptural Application: The Christian and glorifying God through art (Gen. 1:27, 9:6; James 3:9; Matt. 5:45) 4 “A Bird Came Down the Walk” 6–7 Quiz 1A Teaching Help 1B Word List 1 Scriptural Application: Importance of being “in the faith” (2 Cor. 13:5) 5–6 “The Spider and the Wasp” 8–13 Quiz 1B Teaching Help 1C Reading Standardized Test Practice 1 Scriptural Application: Creation declaring God’s glory (Ps. 19; Rom. 1:20); predator-prey relationship a result of the Fall About the Story: Evaluating Petrunketvitch’s scientific worldview Literature as a Tool: Writing about God’s hand in creation 7 “The Nightingale and the Glowworm” 14–15 Quiz 1C Teaching Help 1D Analysis, About the Poem: God as source of both poetry and wisdom 8–9 “What Stumped the Bluejays” 16–19 Quiz 1D Teaching Help 1E Potential Problems: Evaluating Twain’s worldview About the Story, Scriptural Application: The place of man and animals in Creation 10 Thinking Zone 20 11–13 “The Return of the Rangers” 21–31 Quiz 1E Teaching Help 1F Teaching Help 1G Literature as a Tool: Questioning an evolutionary valuation of man 14 “Mother to Son” 32–33 Quiz 1F Teaching Help 1H Teaching Help 1I About the Story, Discussion: Evaluating the poem’s worldview (Phil. 4:13; Rom. 8:8) 15 “The Soul’s Dark Cottage” 34 Quiz 1G Teaching Help 1J About the Story: A biblical view of old age Scriptural Application: Scriptural wisdom (1 Tim. 4:12; Ps. 119:99; Lev. 19:32; Prov. 16:31) 16 “The Windows” 35–36 Quiz 1H Teaching Help 1K About the Poem, Discussion and Analysis: The weakness of man’s nature transcended by God’s grace; the power of truth evidenced in action
17 John 1 37–39 Quiz 1I Teaching Help 1L Word List 1 Vocabulary Standardized Test Practice 1 ESL Exercise 1 Analysis: Christ as the Word, the Light, the Lamb, and the reconciler of God and man Analysis: John and the synoptic Gospels 18 Thinking Zone 40 Questions: Paradox in John 1 19 Writing Lesson 1: Personification Paragraph Book A W1–W2 Writing Worksheet 1A Writing Worksheet 1B Writing Rubric 1 20 Unit 1 Review 41–43 21 Unit 1 Test Unit 2: Sound and Syntax 22 Visual Analysis Sound and Syntax 44–47 Teaching Help 2A Teaching Help 2B Teaching Help 2C Teaching Help 2D Parallelism and repetition illustrated in the Beatitudes and in Proverbs 23 “Who Has Seen the Wind?” 48–49 Quiz 2A Teaching Help 2E Teaching Help 2F Word List 2 About the Poem: Seeing the evidence of the unseen God Analysis and Scriptural Application: All of creation subject to the Creator (Col. 1:16–17; Ps. 19:1–6); The Holy Spirit as the wind (John 3:8) 24 “Rattlesnake” 50–51 Quiz 2B Scriptural Application: God-given beauty of the serpent, despite the curse 25 “On the Grasshopper and the Cricket” 52–53 Quiz 2C Teaching Help 2G Scriptural Application: The blessings and dangers of poetry in light of Scripture 26 “March for a One-Man Band” 54–55 Quiz 2D ESL Exercise 2A 27 “Foul Shot” 56–57 Quiz 2E Teaching Help 2H 28 Thinking Zone 58 29–31 “A Gray Sleeve” 59–69 Quiz 2F Teaching Help 2I Teaching Help 2J ESL Exercise 2B Word List 2 Reading Standardized Test Practice 2 Scriptural Application: Crane’s refusal to accept God’s revelation of Himself (John 3:16; 1 John 4:8) 32 “Winter Ocean” 70–71 Quiz 2G Teaching Help 2K Reinforcement: Imaginative comparisons and organized sound and syntax in descriptions of the sea in the KJV Bible
47 “The Progress of Poesy” 97–98 Quiz 3D Teaching Help 3D Literature as a Tool: Writing a biblical response to Arnold’s message Discussion: Arnold’s use of biblical allusion (Num. 20:1–12; Deut. 34) Scriptural Application: A biblical view of old age (Titus 2:2–5; Heb. 5:12–14; Eccles.12) 48 “maggie and milly and molly and may” 99–100 Quiz 3E Teaching Help 3E 49 Thinking Zone 101 50 “Afterglow” 102–3 Quiz 3F About the Story: Evaluating Borges’s theme in light of Scripture Scriptural Application: The inadequacy of Borges’s worldview (Matt. One–on–One: Comparison of Borges’s, Updike’s, and a biblical worldview 51–53 “The Masque of the Red Death” 104–9 Quiz 3G Teaching Help 3F About the Story: Evaluating Poe’s worldview in the story (Rom. 6:9) Scriptural Application: Man’s inability to escape death; the biblical attitude toward life and death (Phil.1:12–28) 54 “The Listeners” 110–12 Quiz 3H Teaching Help 3G Scriptural Application: Spiritual truth revealed in Scripture to the humble seeker (Isa. 57:15; John 10:1–10; Acts 14:27; 1 Cor. 16:8–9; etc.) 55–56 “A Piece of Chalk” 113–16 Quiz 3I Teaching Help 3H Word List 3 Vocabulary Standardized Test Practice 3 About the Story: Evaluating Chesterton’s worldview biblically Literature as a Tool: Writing about racism vs. active virtue Scriptural Application: Biblically evaluating the idea that countries play a role in spreading true virtue (Matt. 5:14) 57 Thinking Zone 117 58–59 Writing Lesson 3: Symbols in the Bible Book A W5–W6 Writing Worksheet 3A Writing Worksheet 3B Writing Rubric 3 60 Unit 3 Review 118–19 61 Unit 3 Test Unit 4: Irony 62 Visual Analysis Irony 120–23 Teaching Help 4A Potential Problems: Use of verbal irony in Scripture (Matt. 23:24; Isa. and 1 Kings 18:27) Scriptural Application: Using sarcasm inappropriately (James 1:26; James 3; Eph. 4:29, 32; 1 Thess. 5:11)