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APPLIED
AMERICAN LITERATURE Y
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course will survey
major American works and authors and provide writing experiences related
to literature and work place settings. Applied grammar, vocabulary, listening
and speaking will be an integral part of this course.
- WRITING
- Multi paragraph essays
- Persuasion/argumentation
- Comparison/contrast
- Journal entries
- Business writing
- Resumes
- Letters of application
- Letters of reply
- Forms, applications
- READING/LITERATURE
- Literary movements
- Early writers
- Native Americans
- Colonials
- Puritans
- Planters
- Age of Reason
- Romanticism
- American Renaissance
- Civil War literature
- Realism
- Regionalism
- Naturalism
- Modernism
- Imagism
- Harlem Renaissance
- Post-modernism
- Literary terms
- Background of literary movements
- Parallel reading
III. USAGE/GRAMMAR
- Capitalization rules
- Punctuation rules
- Sentence structure
- Tense
- Pronoun usage
- Parallel structure
IV. LANGUAGE/VOCABULARY
- Words from literary selections
- Words from vocabulary program
V. RESEARCH/TECHNOLOGY
- Research report
- On-line search
- Research skills
- Paraphrasing
- Documentation
- Writing lab
VI. SPEAKING/LISTENING
- Class discussions
- Individual presentations
- Group presentations
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