2025-2026 School Year
English w/World Literature GVL
Course Description
Welcome to the world of literature! During this course we will read important works from throughout history and from all over the world. We will read works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry, and place each work in the larger context of world history. We will consider each work of literature both on its own terms and in the context of the Christian worldview.
To be successful in this class:
Students must be able to maintain a rigorous reading schedule (about 100 pages or approximately four hours of audio most weeks), take an active part in classroom discussions, and complete essays and other written assignments (including a research paper), as well as presentations and tests, to demonstrate understanding and critical analysis of each work.
Grades: 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Fees: $425
Prerequisites:
English 1 (must have completed 1 high school English course)
Parents must read UHC High School Literature Class Parent Information before registering their student for a literature class at UHC.
View High School English Grade Levels and Prerequisites.
Course Credit: 1 CP English credit. Course can also be taken for honors credit. View Honors English w/ World Literature Course Description for details on honors requirements.
Required Materials
- Three-ring notebook with paper
- Every student in grades 7-12 taking a Literature class at UHC must have access to either an electronic copy or a hard copy of the Blue Book of Grammar. You will only need to purchase this book once per family, and your student(s) will use it as a reference for all UHC literature classes.
- Access to a reliable word processor and printer
Books: No electronics may be used in class, including electronic books.
- The Odyssey by Homer
- Antigone by Sophocles
- The Aeneid books 1-4 by Virgil
- The Divine Comedy: The Inferno by Dante
- Don Quixote, Part One by Miguel de Cervantes
- Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo (*This book only MUST be required edition!)
- Faust Part I by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
- The Ancient Oral and Classical Epic Tradition Unit (teacher will provide)
- Ancient and Modern World Poetry, Nonfiction, and Short Stories Unit (teacher will provide)
Meet Shandi Stevenson
Education: BA Literature in English Excelsior College 2004, MA Humanities California State University 2013
Experience: Freelance writer and tutor
UHC courses taught:
- Middle school journalism
- Fifth grade IEW
- American Literature
- Seventh and eighth grade literature analysis
- English with British Literature
- English with World Literature
- SAT prep verbal skills
- ACT prep verbal skills
Began teaching at UHC in 2009