Facing Life, English: 5113.30.

The outline of a course in the investigation of literature (both fiction and nonfiction) which concerns youth facing and overcoming problems of life, with stress upon the novel and biography, is presented. The student is expected, through reading selected literary works, to (1) examine the problems confronted by youth, (2) examine youth's needs and the conditions that can create conflict, (3) defend the importance of a person's confronting his own problems, (4) examine how a fictional or real character found a solution to a problem, and (5) gain help in solving his own problems by an investigation of how youth in fiction and nonfiction solved theirs. The rationale for the course is that the adolescent through studying literature will more clearly understand his likeness to all men by investigating the forces which create such universal conflicts as those between man and man, man and God, man and nature, man and society, and man and himself. Numerous teaching strategies and a bibliography of teacher and student resources including textbooks, supplementary materials, films, records, and filmstrips are included. (Author/DI)