Unit 1

Students will gain a better understanding of pieces of literature by seeing how they apply to their original time period, how they could be applied now, and how they are connected to other pieces of literature.

Why is doing that important? Well, if you don't have a good understanding of how a piece of literature fits in to it's own time period then you won't have the best understanding of the piece itself. History also repeats itself, so it is important to see how lessons can be applied to the present and the future. It is important to try to see how pieces of literature are connected to other pieces, so that they can be put into genres, which will then help to keep order. Without genres, looking for a book in a library would be a very long search through rooms of alphabetised books.