The student will read and analyze classic literature such as poetry, short stories, novels, and historical documents. This course will concentrate mostly on poetry - reading, writing, and analyzing poetry. There will be other forms of literature throughout the course, but these types of literature are there to help share poetry. Through this analysis of poetry and other literature, the student will gain an understanding of how this literature relates to himself/herself. In addition, the student will create, evaluate, analyze, and critique literature by learning the fundamentals of literature through literary devices, creating poems, short stories, essays, responses, and research papers, and demonstrating this knowledge through assignments and projects.