About our Digital Curriculum
This product grants you a 4-year long subscription to a digital ebook version of our printed Women's Literature Coursebook. The digital curriculum is for use on electronic devices and cannot be printed or shared.
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Course Overview
How do stories about unknown new worlds lead to discovering your own world?
This course in Women’s Literature is focused on works of science fiction and fantasy written by women. We will look at the freedom these genres offer for women writers, discover the values and ideas that inform the stories, and explore themes of identity, gender, race, and social justice.
In this one-semester course, you will read three books, one novella, and several short stories. The first unit uses the works of Diana Wynne Jones to explore the fantasy genre. The second unit looks at science fiction through the work of Ursula Le Guin. The course will culminate with reading a contemporary novella, and completing a project that gives you the opportunity to envision and write, or illustrate, a science fiction or fantasy story of your own.
Course Length: One semester
Suggested Grade Level(s): 9, 10, 11, 12
View samples of our high school curriculum here.
Additional Materials Required
The following books are used in conjunction with this coursebook:
- Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones
- Fire and Hemlock by Diana Wynne Jones
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
- The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- Women's Literature Teacher Edition (optional, but recommended; NOT included in the course package)
Product Details
- Publisher: Oak Meadow, Inc.
- Version date: July 2022
- Format: Digital ebook
- Subscription Length: 4 years
