Higher Education Literature Syllabi

I created and currently teach a Children's Literature online course at a local community college. This is a multicultural Children's Literature Syllabus for you to get started on your own course or the get an idea of the acitivites and assignments to use in your own course. We are using Literature and The Child (2016) as the main textbook. Also, this is an editable Children's Literature Syllabus Community College Microsoft Word Document.

This syllabus is for a course on African-American Literature. The year-long course features literary texts by some of the best African-American novelists, playwrights, and poets: Frederick Douglass, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, and more.

The curriculum is organized chronologically and was designed to highlight several important African-American literary and cultural movements: slave narratives, the Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Literature, Black Arts Poetry, etc. The curriculum is deliberately diverse in its representation of gender and brings an intersectional approach to the study of literary characters.

In addition, the curriculum features works by African-American authors written in a wide range of literary genres: novels, memoirs, plays, and poems. The daily lesson plans equip students with the terminologies and techniques for analyzing texts written in those different genres.

The units for each book listed on the syllabus can be found via the links below:

• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

• Langston Hughes, Selected Poetry

• Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)

• Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1938)

• Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poetry

• Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

• Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1972)

• Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979)

• Writing Analytical Papers

Rigorous Resources your one-stop shop for top-quality teaching resources on complex literature by diverse authors. Each unit was created by a Ph.D. in English who has taught for 20+ years and published award-winning essays on American literature.

Because this syllabus fully editable, you'll be able to customize this syllabus to suit your own literary tastes and/or the skill levels of your students — year after year! If you have any questions about the syllabus or any of the unit plans, please don't hesitate to get in touch via the email address below. I'm eager to do everything I can to make sure you have an amazing experience with teaching African-American Literature!

Finally, this syllabus will always be free — so please don't hesitate to share the link with your colleagues. If you'd be willing to leave a brief review, I'd be sincerely grateful for your support. I love hearing from the amazing teachers who share a passion for great literature!

Happy teaching,

Adam Jernigan

adamjernigan@gmail.com