Freshman English-Survey of Freshman English-Survey of LiteratureLiterature

Course OutlineCourse OutlineBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript LibraryBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Yale University Yale University New Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven, Connecticut

Reading

Listening

Writing

SpeakingCRITICAL CRITICAL THINKINGTHINKING

Tolerance

ToleranceFriendship

Friendship

Social Social

Responsibility

Responsibility

Why these Why these ??

Social Responsibility, Social Responsibility, Friendship, and Friendship, and

ToleranceTolerance

These themes will be important to you These themes will be important to you during your high school experience. You during your high school experience. You will experience and think about them on will experience and think about them on

a daily basis.a daily basis.

What is equality? In what ways are persons not equal? When must everyone be considered equal?

How does an individual resolve conflicts with other individuals and

with all of society?“When elephants

fight, it is the grass that suffers.”

-African Proverb

How does society treat nonconformists?

How do you define your and society’s responsibility for injustice?

What is society’s responsibility for the individual?

How do our perceptions and society’s perceptions affect our behavior?

What are group responses to conflicts and differences?

How can individual prejudices lead to loss of human rights?