Use this book as a lesson planner, whether you are teaching in an institution or a home school. There are 12 lessons, containing study guides, discussion questions and more. Learn more about the development of English literature from the nation's founding to the Nineteenth Century. This book is a great teaching textbook and tool to help instruct your students how to write, as they are learning more about English literature. They will also learn how to relate these pieces of famous literature to their own personal lives. As they are writing and learning about these different pieces and their authors, they will learn to appreciate them.