Recommended for use in Grade 12. This book uses quality literature to teach spiritual truth. Units in this textbook are an anthology about truth, short stories, poetry, and essays. The textbook has exercises to develop vocabulary, reading comprehensive, thinking skills, and composition skills.

Note: the exercises in the textbook were designed to be done with alternate worksheets in a classroom setting, so those exercises can be skipped when using the LightUnit workbooks included in this set.

Contents

• Introduction for Parents and Teachers
• Student Introduction

UNIT 1: TRUTH—A Thematic Anthology of Literature About Truth

• The Children of Truth
• The Children of a Liar

FOUR POEMS ABOUT TRUTH

• Truth Crushed to Earth
• With Whom Is No Variableness, Neither Shadow of Turning
• Truth
• The Worth of Truth

ESSAYS ABOUT TRUTH

• Of Truth
• All Truth Is God's Truth

ESSAYS ABOUT THE BIBLE

• The Authority of the Scriptures
• Revelation

FOUR POEMS ABOUT THE BIBLE

• God's Word
• The Book Our Mother's Read
• God's Unchanging Word
• Faith

ESSAY ABOUT THE BIBLE

• The Bible

UNIT 2: THE SHORT STORY—For Unfolding Truth

• Those Who Will Not Learn Must Feel

THEME: TRUTH TESTS OUR IDEAS

• How Much Land Does a Man Need?
• Quality
• There Will Come Soft Rains
• The Apprentice
• The Death of the Dauphin

CHARACTER: TRUTH TESTS OUR HEARTS

• The Piece of String
• Mr. Brownlee's Roses
• David Kills Goliath
• The Parable of the Birthday Candles
• The Frill
• The Parable of the Lost Son
• The Bishop's Candlesticks

PLOT: TRUTH TESTS OUR ACTIONS

• Limb in a Desert
• "They Grind Exceeding Small"
• The Silver Mine

UNIT 3: POETRY—A Cadence for Expressing Truth

POEMS EXPRESS FEELING

• Trees
  • What Does God Want Our Poetry to Be?

THE SOUNDS OF POETRY

• Pretty Words
  • Poetry Should be Read Aloud
  • Rhythm Adds Beauty
  • Rhyme Adds Beauty
• Where Go the Boats?
  • Other Ways Poets Use Sounds
• The Bells

THE IMAGERY OF POETRY

• Psalm 42
  • The Simile Compares With Like or As
  • Metaphors Imply a Comparison
  • Personification Pretends Something Is a Person

POEMS TO PONDER

Songs of Truth About Nature

• God Is at the Anvil
• The Eagle
• Pied Beauty
• When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
• Stars
• A Strip of Blue

Illustrations of Truth in Nature

• To a Waterfowl
• The Lamb
• Lines Written in Early Spring
• I Saw God Wash the World
• The Tuft of Flowers
• Inscriptions on a Sundial
• Evening Star

Verses of Truth About God at Work

• The Song of Moses
• Sound the Loud Timbrel
• The Destruction of Sennacherib
• Religion and Doctrine
• The Convergence of the Twain
• A Land That Man Has Newly Trod
• Paradox
• Fueled
• Space Age

Comments on Truth About Life Purposes

• Ozymandias
• Requiem for a Modern Croesus
• Gold
• Richard Cory
• A Thanksgiving to God for His House
• Myself
• Four Things
• Be Strong

UNIT 4: THE ESSAY—For expounding Truth

TRUTH PERPETUATED: ENCOUNTERS WITH MEN

• A Great Teacher's Method
• The Blind Preacher

TRUTH PERCEIVED: ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE

• The Words of Creation
• Poetry and Mystery of the Sea

Two Essays About Birds

• The English Skylark
• The Mockingbird

• Seasonal Skyscape
• The Geometry of the Spider's Web

TRUTH PERVERTED: ENCOUNTERS WITH HUMAN NATURE

• To See It Fall
• The Art of Discouragement
• That Satisfied Feeling
• The Seat of the Scornful

Three Essays Against the Use of Alcohol

• Who Hath Woe?
• The Venomous Worm
• The Town Pump

TRUTH PERSONALIZED: ENCOUNTERS WITH GOD

• Deny Self and Imitate Christ
• The Witness of Hans Bret
• A Letter From Hans Bret
• My Experience With Christ

• Index of Authors, Titles, and First Lines of Poetry
• Index of Literary Terms
• Index of Biblical References
• Acknowledgements