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Language Arts
Title: American Literature (Online)
Credit: 0.5 units
Lessons: 10 lessons, 8 submitted
Exams: 2 exams
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course explores American literary themes about the relationships between individuals and their peers, their families, and society as a whole. Through critical reading of several novels and plays, students examine the conflicts that arise between oppressive social constructs and individuals who refuse to conform to them.  

Gifted: This course is academically challenging. Any student who has an interest in the subject and has met the prerequisites (if any), may enroll.



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Textbook Information
Item 1
Author: Hansberry
Title: A Raisin in the Sun
ISBN: 0-679-75533-0
Edition: Vintage '94
New price: $4.70

Item 2
Author: Hinton
Title: The Outsiders
ISBN: 0-14-038572-X
Edition: '97 Puffin
New price: $6.25

Item 3
Author: Lawrence & Lee
Title: Inherit The Wind
ISBN: 0-345-46627-6
Edition: Bantam
New price: $4.95

Item 4
Author: Neihardt
Title: When The Tree Flowered
ISBN: 0-8032-8363-6
Edition: '91
New price: $11.95

Item 5
Author: Plath
Title: The Bell Jar
ISBN: 0-06-093018-7, 0-06-083702-0
Edition: '99 Perennial
Publisher: Harper Collins
New price: $8.95

Item 6
Author: Steinbeck
Title: The Grapes of Wrath
ISBN: 0-14-303943-1
Edition: '06
New price: $10.35

Item 7
Author: Twain
Title: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
ISBN: 0-395-98078-X
Edition: '00
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
New price: $15.65

Text total: $62.80

Fee:
High School fee: $150.00

Total Cost:
High School fee: $150.00
Administrative fee: $25.00
Texts, etc.: $62.80

Total cost: $237.80
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