converging course with new material
offered each semester; new students may enter mid-year if
space is available in the class and with tutor approval.
Class Description::
Update:
June 21, 2011
Do you love to watch good
movies--and discuss them with your family and friends?
Would you like to
incorporate your movie "entertainment" with your
literature "curriculum"?
Good storytelling
teaches--whether heard, read or seen. Movies often have
resounding messages just as literature does; themes of right and
wrong, ethics, moral dilemmas, coming of age, plot development
and irony are just a few of their common traits. In this
class students will learn to critique narrative content and
form, identify underlying messages, and analyze a wide range of
films in multiple genres and compare many of them to their
source material, be it a play or a book.. Course Curriculum will be based on
Movies As
Literature by Kathryn Stout and Richard Stout (authors
of Natural Speller).
Students
to purchase student workbook, Movies as
Literature Student Workbook by Kathryn Stout (best price found is $14.99 +
S & H at CBD). ISBN: 18919575129; ISBN-13:
9781891975127.
Selected
other readings needed throughout the year, available either at
library or for purchase by student as needed.
Time
with the tutor in the classroom will be spent discussing,
critiquing, reviewing and analyzing the movies and literature
hat students
have watched or read t home in preparation for class. Applicable
film snippets will be viewed in class, as needed, to illustrate a
point for discussion, but the actual movie will be watched in
its entirety by the student at home with their family. Therefore,
students will need access to rental movie sources such as
Blockbuster or Netflix.
Total Due: $195.00
per semester
Payment Options
$195.00 due with Registration per semester - paid in full per semester
at the time of registration
converging course is a full year course that can be taken as a one-semester
or full year course, or as a sequence over two consecutive years (specifics below).
Class Description::
Update:
June 21, 2011
This course is designed for middle school students in 5th and 6th grades to infuse a love for the written word in the hearts and minds of students so that they will forever search for and appreciate great works for all ages, from the past and the present.
With a combination of readings both in the anthology and independent award-winning novels, students will learn how to discuss and critique literature. Weekly Journals will help students to reflect on the readings for class and consider what they like/dislike about the work and why; how to identify important elements of literature; and compare and contrast different works
of literature. Each
student will be responsible for an oral Author Report. A 1,000 word Book Report on a different novel will be due each semester.
Text: ABeka Of People,4th
edition ONLY (available on www.amazon.com
and other used book sources) plus supplemental reading
provided on the course syllabus.
Total Due: $195.00
per semester
Payment Options
$195.00 due with Registration per semester - paid in full per semester
at the time of registration
Full year course;
students of all experience levels are welcome
Class Description::
Update:
June 21, 2011
This course is designed to infuse a love for
the written word in the hearts and minds of students so that
they will forever search for and appreciate great works for all
ages, from the past and the present. Central to fully
understanding literature is a foundational knowledge of the
Elements of Literature as well as important historical works and
authors. During this course students will study and
reflect on works written by authors such as Dickens, Tolstoy,
Homer and Milton while seeing the flow of literature over the
course of history.
Text: ABeka World Literature (latest
edition) + supplemental reading provided with course syllabus.
Total Due: $195.00
per semester
Payment Options
$195.00 due with Registration per semester - paid in full per semester
at the time of registration.
Poetry; many students shudder at the
thought of reading, or worse, writing poetry. This course
will assist students to navigate the ins and outs of poetic
form, both as a reader as well as a writer.
While many people view poetry as
high flatulent mumbo-jumbo with no application to life, this
class will break down the structure and ideas that each poetic
form embodies to help make them real.
This class is also intended for
students planning to take PSEO classes in their 11th and 12th
grades and to help them prepare for other college level
work.
TEXT: The Making of a Poem:
A Norton Anthology of Poetic Form by Mark Strand &
Eavan Boland. (Student is responsible for the procurement of
their own text)
Total Due: $195.00
per semester
Payment Options
$195.00 due with Registration per semester - paid in full per semester
at the time of registration.
