Courses

English Lit: Literary Devices

ages 8-11 (gr.3-6) Advanced Readers
Full Year - 32 week Course

Course Description:

Join us in exploring literary devices while discussing literature. Each week, we will learn about a new literary device, seek examples from the text, and do activities and games that allow us to apply the new literary device. Additionally, each week a different student will be assigned to bring a discussion question that will guide a short discussion about our ongoing reading. They will be able to choose from a provided bank of discussion questions, Google discussion questions created for the book, or create their own question. On the last week of each literature unit, we will have a teacher-led in-depth book discussion along with a game reviewing the literary devices covered to that point.

This class pairs well with Creative Writing and Academic Sentences for ages 9-11 for a writing component.

Schedule and Cost:

Day: Monday

Time: 11am-12pm ET

Full Year Course Dates:
September 12, 2022 – June 19, 2023 (32 weeks – No classes: Sept 26, Oct 10, Nov 21, Dec 26, Jan 2, Feb 20, Apr 10, May 22, May 29)

For Tuition Fees, Code of Conduct, and all the details, see THE FINE PRINT.

Required Homework:

60-80 pages of reading per week (conventionally, as an audiobook or as a read aloud)

Bring a discussion question once every 5-8 weeks

Course Materials:


Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt

A Place at the Table by Saadia Faruqui & Laura Shovan

A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park

Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

Sandry’s Book by Tamora Pierce

Hate That Cat by Sharon Creech

Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Her Stories told by Virginia Hamilton 

Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie Tolan

Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques

 

Occasional Printouts emailed throughout the year.

Paper and pencil on hand every week (though we will only use them some weeks).