Mrs. VIRGIE BARNETTE

English Literature and Composition

Through critical thinking and critical reading of literary texts (novels, plays, poems, and short stories from the sixteenth century to the present) students will come to understand how writers use language and form to create or enhance meaning in his/her works. Our literary analysis will look through the lenses of style and structure, rhetorical strategies, diction, figurative language, imagery, selection of detail, language and syntax.

Dual Enrollment English Literature and Composition will give students a learning experience equivalent to a typical undergrad introduction to literature class. The course will be a learning experience equivalent to a typical undergrad introduction to literature class.

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Survey of American Literature

The primary purpose of this course is to introduce American Literature from its earliest up to approximately the Civil War. Though the literature is priority of the course, there is no escaping the historical aspects as they directly affect what, how, and who is writing.

Diversity will also be discussed as we study writers from varied backgrounds so that we might get a sense of the many different facets of life represented in the American experience. Readings will be to discover connections between ideas and patterns in the development of American society and culture.

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