Students read in the following order:
- Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction: Autobiography)
- Washington Irving (essay, text in this Guide: "The Angler")
- William Cullen Bryant (selected poems, text in this Guide)
- Frederick Douglass (nonfiction: Narrative)
- Edgar Allan Poe (short story, text in this Guide: "The Tell-Tale Heart")
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (novel: The Scarlet Letter)
- Herman Melville (novel: Moby-Dick)
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (selected poems, text in this Guide)
Lessons cover persuasive writing, tone, conflict, character, and rhyme and meter in poetry and include author information, comprehension questions, and writing exercises. Answers to comprehension questions, additional projects ideas, reading lists, semester and full-year schedules, and a bibliography are also in the Guide. Book-length works are sold separately and in a pack (see Related Items below).
Recommendations: This book is
especially recommended for freshmen, students new to Lightning Literature in any high school grade, students taking American History, or students interested in American literature. These should not be viewed as restrictions as this course can profitably be used by high school students of any grade regardless of which previous Lightning Literature courses they have completed.
Related Items:
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
Lightning Lit Guide: Amer Late 19th Cent
Lightning Lit Pack: Amer Early-Mid 19th
Moby-Dick
Narrative of Frederick Douglass' Life
The Scarlet Letter
