The Noah Plan Literature Curriculum Guide presents the rich elementary, middle school, and highschool Christian History Literature program originally designed by Rosalie J. Slater. Amplified with practical models and methods of teaching, sample student notebook pages, and step-by-step teacher direction, this guide makes Miss Slater's incomparable program accessible to any teacher. This Guide inspires a high Christian standard of language by building a diverse and excellent vocabulary and cultivating abilities of expression in speaking and writing. It instills a love of the Bible, classics, and all types of literature.

TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE: The Literature Curriculum Charts and Methods Goals and Teaching Plan for Literature in the Principle Approach? Cultivating Reasoning through the Grades; Curriculum Charts Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade; Distinctives of a Principle Approach?Lesson; Model Unit Study and Lesson Plans; Teacher Development and Sample Student Notebook for Abigail Adams; How to use a F.A.C.E. Syllabus; Glossary CHAPTER TWO: Learning the Literature of the Bible The Bible—the Source and Seedbed of Literature and Liberty; Biblical Approach to Poetry CHAPTER THREE: Elementary Literature Christian History Literature Program; Mother Goose and Nursery Rhymes; The Study of Fairy and Folk Tales Is the Study of Nations; Types of Children's Literature; Teaching and Learning Poetry; Heritage of English and American Poets; Key Classics on the Chain of Christianity; History as Literature; Biography and Autobiography as Character Study; Charles Dickens, an Author to Grace and Inspire Childhood—The Kate Douglas Wiggin Story CHAPTER FOUR: Teaching Shakespeare Bard of the Bible; Biography and Tributes; History of Drama; Study Guide for The Merchant of Venice CHAPTER FIVE: Junior High Literature Seventh Grade:A Study of Literary Types Eight Grade:Contrasts between the Pagan and the Christian Idea of Man and Government in Literature; Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ CHAPTER SIX: High School Literature English Literature: Ninth Grade—Tracing the Nobler Stream of Liberty; Tenth Grade—England Relinquishes Her Christian Heritage American Literature: Eleventh Grade?America's Founding Reflected in Her Literature; Twelfth Grade—America Falls Away from Her Christian Founding and Character Teacher and Student Resource List