African American Contemporary Literature Book Club for Teens: The Water Dancer

Students will read, discuss and write a literary analysis paper.

Cheryl Carter is the lead instructor of Collegiate Learning. Cheryl Carter, the writing coach, endearingly known as Professor Cheryl, for the way she methodically targets the stop-blocks that prohibit her clients from moving them ahead in completing their writing projects. Over the years, she has worked with authors writing educational, religion, science, business, and popular culture books. Professor Cheryl knows how to motivate emerging writers to overcome procrastination, literary lags and time constraints. She is the author of an ever-growing number of titles and has been published traditionally and independently. 

Professor Cheryl is also a college professor, who currently teaches English and writing classes. She also teaches creative writing, media and culturally relevant biography classes on Outschool.com. Professor Cheryl has an MFA in Creative Writing and a BA in English. She has also completed graduate study in special education, college admissions and counseling, and is currently a creative writing doctoral student. Professor Cheryl holds a graduate certificate in College Advisement from Columbia University and a TEFL (Teaching English to certificate She also holds a graduate certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

A fierce advocate for education empowerment, Professor Cheryl is also the CEO of Collegiate Learning, an academic company that prepares learners for scholastic college success. She has a line of educational books that address ADHD and ELA areas, including writing, vocabulary, critical thinking, reading and writing. Additionally, Professor Cheryl, a personal historian created the innovative personal history initiative, Family-as-Biographers under her Meaningful Moments books and journals. 
More importantly, Cheryl considers her most important role to be that of homeschool mother. She has five children—three of them homeschool graduates

Each week students will be expected to read the chapters for the next week's discussion: approximately 50 - 70 pages a week. 

At the end of the course, students will have a graded assessment based off of their close close reading essay.

50 minutes per week in class, and maybe some time outside of class.