World Literature is a standards-based, college preparatory English class designed to provide you with the foundation you need to be able to critically think, read, and write in a variety of modes of discourse. Students will build upon skills already developed throughout previous years of high school, and apply those skills to more sophisticated and challenging texts. Wherever you find yourself after high school—be it a four year university, a community college, the military, or a trade school, we must all be skilled in oral and written communication, and we must be saavy consumers of the information we read. This course focuses on texts by authors from around the globe. Core fiction pieces will be paired with non-fiction texts to create a juxtaposition of ideas and issues that are relevant to today’s world. Reading and writing topics include: stereotypes, social roles, government control vs. individual freedoms, benefits and drawbacks to advancements in technology, tradition vs. new directions, power structures in society, personal responsibility in one’s actions, and the justice system, among others. Students will have an opportunity to take in and critically assess a variety of viewpoints—a skill essential in formulating one’s own educated and fully developed point of view.