1. Freshman English-Survey of Literature Course Outline Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University New Haven, Connecticut

2. Reading Listening Writing Speaking CRITICAL THINKING

3. Tolerance Friendship Social Responsibility

4. Why these ? Social Responsibility, Friendship, and Tolerance These themes will be important to you during your high school experience. You will experience and think about them on a daily basis.

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

6. 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

8. How does society treat nonconformists?

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

10. What is society’s responsibility for the individual?

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

12. What are group responses to conflicts and differences?

13. How can individual prejudices lead to loss of human rights?