Learning Language Arts Through Literature—Gold World
Written in conversational form, LLATL Gold Book World Literature has story summaries and complete answers provided for the discussion questions in the new Teacher Section. [Features]
Gold World Literature
Gold Book: World Literature
Learning Language Arts Through Literature
Publisher: Common Sense Press
ISBN-13: 9781929683345
Learning Language Through Literature – The Gold Book: World Literature has instructions and directions for both the student and the teacher.
The Gold Book World Literature has five units:
- Early Literature
- Epic Poetry
- Medieval Renaissance
- Enlightenment Romanticism
- 2oth Century
The student will study:
- Ancient Literature Study introduces the student to ancient world literature such as fables, myths, fairy tales, folktales, parables, poetry and sacred texts of ancient cultures.
- Epic Study studies heroic stories from seven different cultures. Students will identify the elements that make up epic literature and write their own epic stories.
- Novel Study Looks at three classic works of literature from ancient to modern time.
- Poetry Study looks at the poetry of Ancient Greece and Rome, Egypt, Japan, China, the Middle East, and the European sonnet. Literary terms for poetry will be reviewed.
- Play Study covers the reading of two plays: Romeo and Juliet and The Importance of Being Earnest.
- Short Stories Study explores the plot lines, characters, settings, and themes of none short stories from around the world. The writing assignment is to write a summary detailing the readings.
Features of LLATL Gold World Book
- The 3rd Edition of The Learning Language Arts Gold World is easier for any teacher to use.
- Interweaves information about the various World authors into the lessons.
- The literature chosen for this course is impressive and well-chosen.
- Used with A World Literature Anthology, the LLATL Gold Book World Literature is a complete high school level world literature language arts course.
- There is not a separate student book.
- An E-Book version of the LLATL Gold World Book is available.
- Has instructions and directions for student and teacher.
- Easy-to-use Teacher Section includes answers novel summaries and more.
- Designed to encourage the ability to interpret and access literary meaning in terms of content and philosophy and state a position in response.
- It uses a variety of carefully selected poems, short stories, novels, and other writings from around the world across the ages to represent as many cultures as possible.
LLATL Gold Book – World: Placement Test, Lesson Sample, and Scope and Sequence
Free downloads are available at the publisher’s website for the following items:
Book Study Books
Additional supplementary books are necessary for this course.
- A World Literature Anthology
- The Odyssey by Homer
- No Fear Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
- The Little Prince
- Cry, The Beloved Country
High school level.
List $34.00
Price $30.99

World Literature Anthology
Scope and Sequence for Gold World Literature Book
Reading Skills/Short Stories
- Early literature: myths, folktales, fairytales, fables, African proverbs and dilemma tales, parables, The Analects, The Pillow Book, The Epic of Gilgamesh
- Epic Poetry: The Odyssey, The Mahabharata/The Ramayana, The Aeneid, Beowulf, The Song of Roland, The Nibelungenlied
- Medieval/Renaissance: The Thousand and One Nights, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyyam, Canterbury Tales, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote
- Enlightenment/Romanticism: Pilgrim’s Progress, The Divine Comedy, Gulliver’s Travels, Faust, Book One, Doctor Faustus, The Devil and Tom Walker, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Miserables, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Short Story,
- 20th Century: The Little Prince, Cry the Beloved Country
- Literature Topics
critical thinking, predicting outcomes, metaphor, simile, alliteration, parallelism, flashback,sframe story, foreshadowing, narration, theme, paraphrase, soliloquy, oral reading, satire, hyperbole, verbal irony, parody, allegory, motif, protagonist, antagonist, dues ex machine, comedy of manners play, epigram, pun, characters, setting, theme, plot, plot line, conflict, point of view, first/third person, objective/limited/omniscient, stream of consciousness, climax , exposition, rising action, falling action, resolution (denouement), summary, novella, Christ figure, and epilogue
Composition
- Argument and persuasion – prewriting – topic sentence – editing – compare and contrast – epic story writing – creative writing – newspaper article – writing poetry – paraphrase – character sketch – summary – book report
Poetry
- The great hymn of the Aten, Rig Veda, The Book of Songs, tanka Poetry, haiku, lyric poetry, ghazal, sonnets, consonance, assonance, pivot words, meter, metrical pattern, feet, ode, epics, Homeric simile, rhyme, scheme, caesura, kenning, laisses, quatrain, personification, iambic pentameter, blank verse, tercets

