Jan 11 - May 17, Mondays 9:30-10:30am, 15 weeks

*Read the first 5 chapters of PAX before week 1, if possible! 

A Literature Course perfect for students who've completed my grammar and writing courses (or something similar). Through 3 fun award-winning literature books we'll see language arts in action! Walk through the roadmap of how literature is written, and gather the tools you’ll need to Analyze Literature going into both middle school and high school! And if you have the time, there are optional writing assignments to help you learn to write about literature too! With a packet of Cheat Sheets and a set of Journal Pages, you’ll learn how to jot down what stands out in your books. You’ll also learn the treasured skill of Annotating in them! It will help you improve your focus and comprehension, learn to make connections, and even expand your vocabulary! And with a checklist of over 45 Literary Devices, you’ll find each author’s affinity for favorite word-plays in each text! 

In class we'll: 

-Pick Apart and Piece Together Story Elements like setting, character, conflict, plot, climax, resolution, and theme. We’ll also look at Point of View, Genre, Mood, Subplots and More! 

-Discover the Literary Devices used by each author to build meaning and emotion into a text. From foreshadowing to symbolism, parallelism to hyperbole, allusion to epithet, and personification to irony, you’ll see a list of 45 literary devices come to life! 

-Notice how writers spice up their sentences, with varying clauses, phrases, modifiers and add-ons. We’ll use Grammar to label and diagram a few sentences from the text in each class, to review how sentences pack a punch and build up your paragraphs for the better! 

-And through an optional writing assignment provided each week, you’ll use the books as source material to delve into multiple writing structures and styles. Expose a motivation, Compare & Contrast characters, and write a Persuasive paragraph on difficult choices of your favorite heroes!