Мацелюх І.Р. American literature

Підручник з американської літератури для профільної школи та старших класів середніх спеціалізованих шкіл з поглибленим вивченням англійської мови. — Тернопіль: Лібра Терра, 2010. — 184 с.: іл. — ISBN 966-8790-01-4.The world of literature includes three important components: language, culture and thought, and creates a unity whose graphic codification dates back to around 3000 B. C., when man first acquired the gift of writing. Since then poets, playwrights, novelists, essayists and other authors have been at the frontline of spiritual and intellectual values of mankind.American literature is the youngest in the Anglophone world, but boasts the immense creative riches of the leading literati presented in this textbook. They have been selected according to the existing, but updated. Programme 1 for the final grades of English majoring schools, gymnasiums, lyceums, as well as other authoritative Ukrainian and American editions. The whole course is designed for about seventy academic hours (two lessons a week of a one year course), but may be adjusted to one hour a week.The key aims of the textbook are: presenting the documented literary works along with brief biographies of the selected authors and descriptions of literary periods; acquiring the basics of literary analysis; applying the obtained knowledge in communicative writing and speaking tasks.The textbook has seven self-sufficient units, each opening with a literary period survey, containing the authors' biographies (listed chronologically), their original works, followed by a set of literary and language exercises, and a literary review tasks, except Unit One where the literati are incorporated into the literary period survey. The following tasks are applicable to each author and their works:— commenting on the opening quotation and the incorporated ones further in the text;— analyzing biographies in connection with the authors' literary heritage and a broader literary spectrum;— describing what impact a historical period had on the author;— speaking about the author’s influence on the next generation;— examining an author’s uniqueness among other literati;— letting students have their personal assessment of an author, be it approving or disparaging.Teachers are welcome to add more brainstorming practice should they find it expedient and possible under their real circumstances. They can also decide for themselves which speaking task types are most productively covered in pairs, groups, or individually.There are usually two writing tasks so that you can alternate between them or get your pupils to do an assignment of your or their own choice.