Courses
PARENTS ONLY
English Lit: Texts that Changed World
Full Year - 32 week Course
Course Description:
Join with other parents of extremely bright folk as we come together to engage with the same diverse texts as our young people. We will be exploring texts that changed the world as we dive in to think about their role in that change! We will be using a wide range of texts drawn from many time periods and places, including novels, songs, poems, speeches, commercials, radio, tv, slogans, as well as a constitution and an excerpt from the Bible and Quran. Each unit will focus on a different theme, including freedom, the movement of peoples, gender roles, hope, hate, upstanders, and more.
Discussions will focus on the connection of the text to change: Did it spark the change? Did it spark change on purpose or was it an accident? Was it part of a slower evolution of change? Was it written in response to change? Did it reflect ongoing change or a desire for change?
As always, texts will be chosen to be accessible for advanced young readers as well as having the depth and breadth necessary for teens and adults.
Schedule and Cost:
PARENTS ONLY Section (for those with learners enrolled in one of the sections below)
Monday 8:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. ET
SECTIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES:
Section I: Ages 8-11 (gr.3-6) – Advanced Readers
Monday 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. ET
Section II: Ages 12-15 (gr.7-9) – Advanced Readers
Monday 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Section III: Ages 16-18 (gr.10-12) – Advanced Readers
Monday 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET
Section IV: Ages 10-16 (gr.5-10) – Advanced Readers
Australia Japan friendly time / Evening class in North America
Wednesday 10:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. ET
FAMILY-BASED Section: Ages 8+ Advanced Readers and their adult (younger siblings welcome to tag along)
Friday 5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. ET NOTE: MAX. 6 families
Course Dates (click to download pdf)
For Tuition Fees, Code of Conduct, and all the details, see THE FINE PRINT
Required Homework:
Read the equivalent of approx. 100 pages per week (conventionally or as a read aloud).
Students must have their texts with them every class for the whole year once we have covered it in order to enable them to make comparisons between texts.
Multimedia texts like commercials, tv, and radio, etc. are the exception to this requirement.
Course Materials:
Text selection is ongoing! 🙂
There are so many wonderful things to choose from, and I want to take the time over the next while to be sure that everything I want to use will both be appropriate for all ages and fit the time we have together.
Stay tuned for the grand reveal! 🙂
Occasional Printouts emailed throughout the year.
Paper and pencil on hand every week (though we will only use them some weeks).