Course materials cover two years with daily support for all aspects of instruction. The Teacher’s Edition includes a syllabus; correlation to standards; pacing guide; daily lesson plans; teacher’s workbook; CD with daily class notes in PDF (for use as color overheads) and/or PowerPoints; complete assessments. Classroom sets includes 25 Student Workbooks and Teacher Edition with CD. After purchase of Teacher’s Edition, additional Student Workbooks are available for individual purchase. Note: This material expected to be ready for delivery in summer 2008.

*The IB Diploma Program is an official program of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) which authorizes schools to offer it. The material available here has been developed independently of the IBO and has not received IBO endorsement.

Year 1-Semester I
Part IV School’s Free Choice Theme: Self-discovery in new places
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (1 of 5 required world works)
My Antonia by Willa Cather
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (Period 1800-1900)

Year 1-Semester II
Part II Detailed Study Theme: Types of Genre – Plays, Poetry, Non-Fiction
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Play) (Period pre-1800)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Play) (Period pre-1800)
Selected Poetry: Frost, Dickinson, Bishop, Donne, Rich (Poetry)
Dust Tracks on a Dirt Road by Zora Neale Hurston (Non-fiction)

Year 2-Semester 1
Part I World Literature Theme: Latin American Literature
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (2 of 5 required world works)
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo (3 of 5 required world works)
House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende (4 of 5 required world works)

Year 2-Semester II
Part III – The Novel Theme: Characters within the Community
100 Years of Solitude by Gabrial Garcia Marquez (5 of 5 required world works)
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Sula by Toni Morrison