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Register for this first part of our test-ready reasoning series and learn about how words demonstrate and impact our thinking. This course will review some of our culture’s most beautiful texts and make connections between writing, grammar, and thinking.
Total classes: 6
Prerequisite: Read the Oresteia by Aeschylus before Class 1.
Suggested grade level: 10th – 12th grade
Suggested credit: ½ semester literary analysis
Description
This module takes students on a journey of literary discovery that will help them situate prior knowledge within the overall scope of Western Culture, as well as review and enforce excellence in writing and verbal thinking. Each week, the instructor will guide students through passages and poems selected from authors listed on the CLT’s author bank (https://www.cltexam.com/tests/authors/). This module will use a close-reading approach to build students’ verbal reasoning skill base.
Outline
· Week 1: The Drama (with focus on the Greek tradition via Aeschylus’ Oresteia).
· Week 2: The Drama (with focus on Shakespeare’s Macbeth)
· Week 3: Poetry (with focus on the rules of scansion, and close readings featuring the Medieval Poets and the Romantic Poets)
· Week 4: Poetry (with focus on the rules of scansion, and close readings featuring the Victorians and the Moderns)
· Week 5: Prose (with focus on the Novel, and close readings featuring passages from Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, among others)
· Week 6: Prose (with focus on the Novel, and close readings featuring passages from Tolkien and Chesterton, among others)
Materials and Homework
Course materials: All readings will be available free online in the public domain. If you already own copies of any of the texts, you are welcome to use any edition.
Homework: 1-5 hours of study and review. Homework for this module depends entirely on the knowledge and experience of the student. Additional resources (including review of recorded courses in the HSC archive) will be suggested.
Important Dates
Class dates: Mondays, September 9 to October 21, 2024 (No class Sept. 30)
Starting time: 2:30 PM Eastern (1:30 Central, 12:30 Mountain, 11:30 Pacific)
Duration: 55 minutes
