Give students literature selections that will also help them learn about the basic components of literature. This grade 10 textbook features interesting stories and poems from world literature. Categories are arranged by literary devices before moving on to excerpts in historical sequence, helping students to think through the history of ideas from a Christian perspective; units include aspiration, Greece, the Modern Age, paradox, and suspense & mystery. Descartes, Robert Frost, Rossetti, Emily Dickinson, and others are among the prominent authors represented. Lessons included bolded & defined vocabulary words, as well as end-chapter questions. Approximately 453 pages. 10th grade.