Elementary English Literature Analysis (Gr4&5)

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<h1 style="text-align: center;">Elementary English Literature Analysis (Gr4&5)</h1><div style="text-align: center;">John Ziegler - Location: Zoom Online </div> About John Ziegler I am an experienced teacher with specialized qualifications in teaching English as a Second Language. I taught Middle School English, High School Economics, and Algebra II for six years in Thailand in English only programs, and also taught younger English learners in a private school setting on weekends. I provide an encouraging and nurturing environment for students to discover their own particular strengths and safe environment in which to explore them. <div>Course Overview In this course students will begin connecting with the literature and digging a little deeper into narratives to uncover meaning, values, and lessons that an author may be trying to convey. For this class we will primarily be using A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle. Each week, students will be asked to reflect upon and write about how some of the events discussed in the book are relevant in their own lives. The novel is a classic piece which won the 1963 Newberry Medal and has often been a part of curricula since then. Week 1: Examining an Author’s Values Students will move though the first few chapters and examine how the author questions the human tendency to misjudge and fear what they don’t understand. The main character struggles with her own uniqueness and ability to fit in at school. Students will be asked to write a letter of support for her and connect it with plot developments in the chapters. Students may opt to write about people they know who have had the courage to be them, even if they are different, Week 2: Challenges and Personal Growth In chapters 3-4, the main character faces difficult challenges and experiences personal growth as a result of how she faces them. Students will be asked to write a short journal entry reflecting on how they have struggles through a difficult task or have helped a friend through a problem. Week 3: Good versus Evil As students read through chapters 5-6, the underlying plots of good versus evil have emerged with the outcome of the triumph of love in the end. Students will be asked to write about how they define darkness and who, in their own lives, they see as fighting the darkness and how. Week 4: Time and Space Much of this story relies on the ability of its characters to travel through time and space. As the story develops by chapters 7-8, science is a major theme alongside of the questioning of values. Students will be asked to ponder and write about whether there are limitations on what science can answer. The ways in which science has benefitted both the main character as well as humankind overall will be examined. Week 5: Character Evaluation In chapters 8-10, the events culminate into the apex of the story and characters are faced with their own fears as well as the difficulties in their challenge. Students will reflect upon how the characters have grown up and evolved across their individual challenges, and as a group. Writing this week will be a personal tale of how they have seen themselves grow and change along with changes in how they see or experience the world. Week 6: Final Analysis In the final week, we will bring it all together. We will finish the book and take a while to discuss what it was about and how students felt about it. Students will be asked to write both a synopsis and a review of the material including their recommendations or criticisms. Class Schedule Summer Session I, Tuesdays, Thursdays, (1pm –2:45pm); Total Lessons: 20; Fee: $240 Session I, Friday, Sunday, (3pm –4:45pm); Total Lessons: 20; Fee: $240 </div>