The Teacher's Edition set includes reduced student pages, outlines, and study guides for the major periods, plus discussion aids and additional activities.  The Student Text presents a brief introduction for each major period, time lines, author information, and questions for thought and discussion.

This is a thorough study of American literature from the Colonial/Revolutionary period through modern times.  Introduce your student to more than 70 authors in a study that connects the authors' lives and beliefs as revealed in their writings with the corresponding literary periods. See how issues such as Darwinism, romanticism, and religious liberalism were reflected in the literature. Included is the Thornton Wilder play, " The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden."