high school – short stories, literature

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  • January 20, 2016 at 3:37 pm
    smartypants
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    When having your high school student read short stories, do you have them narrate after a few pages? write a short piece after reading the whole thing? discuss? nothing?

    Same with literature selections. Should every chapter be narrated in writing? should an analysis essay be written when done with the whole book?

    Is there a high school list of analysis type questions that could apply to any book?

    What about speeches?

    Thanks,

    Robin

     

    January 20, 2016 at 5:21 pm
    Tristan
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    We don’t write after every book, we do narrate.  For analysis questions you might consider Teaching the Classics from Center for Lit, it is exactly what you are wanting (socratic questions that begin at a light level and go deeper and can generally be applied to any book you are reading).

    January 20, 2016 at 5:27 pm
    ServingwithJoy
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    I am loving the Excellence in Literature guides for my high school girl. It walks her through classic literature and gives her narration and writing assignments that are very CM friendly. It’s been my favorite writing resource we’ve used so far!

    Outside of school assignements, we generally discuss any reading she is doing and think through questions together.

    January 20, 2016 at 6:29 pm
    kellywright006
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    @Servingwithjoy are these IEW resources?

    They sound great!

    January 20, 2016 at 7:12 pm
    my3boys
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    We are using Windows to the World, which is an IEW product and I love it!

    I can’t say my son loves it, but he wouldn’t say he loves any literary analysis product?

    we have their Intro to English but haven’t used it because he took an English literature class instead. But it looks good, too.

    I tried to make Lightning Literature work but I couldn’t, maybe with my next child.

    January 21, 2016 at 10:10 am
    pslively
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    We use Excellence in Literature also. I highly recommend them. I’m not sure if they are actual IEW products, though they are by Janice Campbell who I believe is affiliated with them in some way. Just google the name and you’ll find her website. They are definitely in line with iew methodology.

    January 21, 2016 at 10:59 am
    ServingwithJoy
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    I don’t think they are IEW materials – they have their own website and the writing assignments seem less structured to me. They have several teaching guides that focus on slightly different aspects of writing and use different classic literature to teach the concepts. We have loved it!

    January 21, 2016 at 5:23 pm
    my3boys
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    They aren’t the same; sorry about that. They sure do look the same!

    The Introduction to Literature by Janice Cambell is what we’ll use next year, maybe. It will be one of these programs for sure.

    Inside the cover of her notebook, she thanks the project manager from IEW.

    There must be some type of affiliation between all of these authors.

    Either way, I love them!

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