World Literature introduces students to a wide range of
literature from different time periods and cultures. Students
study how writers from different backgrounds use similar
literary elements and techniques to convey meaning in their
short stories, plays, poems and non-fictional works. The aim is
for students to appreciate the similarities and differences
among the works they read for the course and to learn to analyze
literature to enrich their own independent reading. In
completing World Literature students are required to discuss the
use of various types of literary elements in the works they have
read, compare and contrast literary elements in different works,
and identify the rhyme and rhythm schemes of poems. By the end
of the course students are asked to analyze short stories from
selections that they have read on their own. There are 8
examinations in World Literature. Christ (Ed.), The World of
Literature, custom-published for the American School by AMSCO
School Publications. This course is availabl