Courses

Come explore amazing multicultural literature set across time and space to develop the skills to have great discussions and to identify things of interest in the text. Each week, we will dive into thinking critically about how we know what we know through the lens of characters and their contexts supported by our notations in the text. This course will scaffold students in both participating and leading discussions bolstered by the things they identified in the text and their thorough readings of the novels. While the book list draws from a wide variety of historical, geographical, and cultural contexts in order to provide excellent material for discussion, it has been chosen with an easy-to-read feel to enable everyone to read and mark up each novel over the course of the unit. All of the books are also available in audiobook format, but will still require a paper copy to write in while listening.

This class pairs well with Writing 1: Creative Writing and Academic Sentences or either Writing 2 classes to add a writing component.