Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an increased level of comfort with the genres: poetry, drama, fiction.
• Identify and use terminology specific to literature.
• Recognize some major authors.
• Read, analyze, and explicate complex literature at both the literal and inferential levels.
• Develop a process of analyzing works of literature.
• Use evidence from text to support a thesis.
• Enjoy literature and appreciate unique characteristics of each genre.
• Apply writing skills to analyzing literature.