Students will learn how to read novels in order to understand the messaging of the author, themes, symbolism, and how to read great works for maximum enjoyment and understanding.

Having been an avid reader since grade school, I became impassioned with 20th century American literature while a high school student of Dr. Willis Brenner who taught my English literature classes in my junior and senior year. Dr. Brenner had a contagious enthusiasm for great American literature that I couldn't resist. As a result, I went on to major in English Literature at Michigan State University. I became a certified ELA (English) teacher for secondary school and was quickly found myself disappointed that students were no longer being exposed to works of writers like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bradbury, Melville, Steinbeck, or many others. It seems that the works of these American greats ended up on the trash heap of the politician's new vision of what getting a real education means. 

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This is a reading intensive course and students will be expecting to read up to 85 pages over the week and answer the questions on a provided worksheet.
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A copy of the book is required. The edition we will be working with is: “The Pearl,” Penguin Edition, on Amazon for $10.80. Please buy only the edition recommend, using multiple editions results in the time-consuming process of students searching for passages as we study the book and jump from one page/passage to another. 

I have included the Amazon link for the book below:

https://www.amazon.com/Pearl-John-Steinbeck/dp/014017737X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2TPWQ47EASYXI&dchild=1&keywords=the+pearl+by+john+steinbeck&qid=1613162162&sprefix=the+pearl%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-1