A worldview and literature class designed for senior high students, this class involves reading assignments in addition to in-class reading and discusssion.  Parents and students should be in communication about mature moral and cultural issues before and during this class. If certain sins and behaviors are discussed in Scripture, students should be ready to read about them in class.  Students will be expected to reflect on reading selections in group discussions and writing assignments.

Senior Literature may include, but is not limited to, the following:

• The Writings of John Adams by John Adams

• The Stranger by Albert Camus

• On Christian Doctrine by St. Augustine

• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke

• Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin

• Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky

• Poetry of T.S. Eliot by T. S. Eliot

• Why Christian Faith Still Makes Sense by C. Stephen Evans

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

• Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr.

• The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

• The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

• Areopagitica by John Milton

• Paradise Lost by John Milton

• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

• Knowing God by J.I. Packer

• Common Sense by Thomas Paine

• Pensées by Blaise Pascal

• Love Thy Body by Nancy Pearcey

• Desiring God by John Piper

• The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

• Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington

• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

• The Apocrypha

• Deuteronomy

• Ecclesiastes

• Lamentations

• Proverbs

• The Gospels of Matthew and Mark

• Song of Songs

• 1 and 2 Timothy

• The Koran

• The Westminster Confession of Faith

Christ Dominion Online Advanced Literature Pack.

New King James Version (NKJV) Bible or New American Standard Bible (NASB).

Students are expected to have a computer with a functioning microphone and camera, as well as a stable Internet connection. A functioning email address, preferably a Gmail account, is also required to access this course’s Google Classroom space and the attached materials.

Students will be given personal accounts to access their materials on the online platform moodle.com. An email will be sent by the teacher after enrollment with instructions on how to access this account and create a username and password to use for the duration of the course.

Readings: This is a reading intensive course. In addition to in-class reading, students will regularly be expected to read up to 30-50 pages of material per school day.

In-Class Discussion: Advanced Literature is an active class, regularly requiring in-class discussion, disagreement, and reflection. Students will be graded not on the quantity of their contributions, but the quality.

Analysis Questions: In order to test reading comprehension and whet reasoning skills, students will regulalry be assigned questions corresponding to their readings. These questions will come in three categories:

1. Textual Analysis: Grade reading comprehension and retention.
2. Cultural Analysis: Make connections between the reading and modern society.
3. Biblical Analysis: Provoke analysis of the reading and application from a Scriptural standpoint.

Essays and Writing Assignments: Students will regularly (usually once per book) be expected to produce an essay or classical progymnasmata on a topic assigned by the instructor.

Quizzes and Exams: At various times throughout the quarters, students may be assigned basic reading quizzes. A cumulative exam will be delivered at the end of each quarter, as well as at the end of the school year.

Conduct:  Students are expected to exhibit Christ-like behavior in their discussions and interactions.  While disagreements are permitted, disparaging comments or ad hominem attacks are not. Furthermore, as this course is designed for high school students, a certain level of godly maturity is expected in behavior and conversation. Education from the Academy is a privilege and ought to be treated as such.

Attendance:  Students are required to attend this class in person or view and participate in a live meeting of the class with an active camera.  Class sessions will take place from 10:35-11:30 a.m EST, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. If a student misses a class session, it is the student’s responsibility to identify and complete assigned work by either contacting a classmate or the instructor. Refer to the school calendar for days off due to holidays or other circumstances.

Cheating: Plagiarism and other forms of academic chicanery may be punished according to the discretion of the instructor. All decisions made on academic integrity may be appealed to the headmaster of the Academy. Discipline for academic violations is proportional to the severity of the violation, and may be as severe as removal from the course. Rules and guidelines specific to the course will be included in the course syllabus, distributed to the students on the first day of the course.

Contact Information: The instructor will establish reliable and consistent means of contact with students on the first day of the course.

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