Lit C.

Literature and Composition C

Overview:

This required 10th grade course is compilation of the works of various authors. It emphasizes literature as a dual activity involving reading and analysis. Students are invited to view literature as a reflection of life and encouraged to extend their imaginations to the possibilities it provides. The study of literature in this course is accomplished in three ways: 

1. Experience: through the reading of a work

2. Interpretation: through the analysis of a work

3. Evaluation: through the assessment of a work’s social, moral and cultural value

  Students begin with the Greek Theatre, the genesis of all drama, and move seamlessly through the development of Bryan Stevenson in Just Mercy. As well as drama, there is also a comparison of Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.  

What We Will Read: