About
This year long course, covering classic literature from our Modern Age, will engage your middle school student to understand, enjoy and apply literary concepts to the classics he/she reads, with in-depth discussion guides culminating in a one-hour, live interactive discussion with an experienced literature instructor, Melissa Sweeney, MA Literature. Students should have their filled-out worksheets with them during class in order to participate. Any blanks they may have, due to not grasping the material yet, can be filled in during or after class. Students will receive a grade for discussion participation. Works to be studied this year include: Semester 1 9/8 Call of the Wild 9/29 War Horse 10/13 Anne of Green Gables 10/27 Poetry for Young People: Langston Hughes 11/10 The Phantom Tollbooth 12/1 Bud, Not Buddy Semester 2 1/18 The Cay 2/15 My Side of the Mountain 3/9 Poetry for Young People: Robert Frost 4/6 A Wrinkle in Time 4/20 The Neverending Story 5/4 The Breadwinner Required Text (in addition to the literature): The Literary Toolbox
You can also join this program via the mobile app. Go to the app