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Book Club: Fantasy Just Declared War on Reality - The Looking Glass Wars Bk 1

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Ages 11-14
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This Book Club will be devouring Frank Beddor's "Looking Glass Wars". Ask about Homeschool Group Options!
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Live video meetings
1x per week, 14 weeks
3-12 learners per class
45 min

What's included

14 live meetings
10 hrs 30 mins in-class hours
Homework
1-2 hours per week. Students will use the weekly reading schedule and reading guide. They will have reading/discussion questions to answer as they read. These questions and answers will be brought to class to facilitate discussion.

Class Experience

US Grade 6 - 9
This Reading Club is dedicated to reading Frank Beddor's "Looking Glass Wars". We will be meeting for 45 minutes once a week for 14 weeks. What if "Alice in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" were exaggerated lies about a real, parralel world? If your student loves fantasy and science fiction, you are in the right place. 

The Looking Glass Wars - Book 1. 
We will be reading the first book of the Looking Glass Wars Trilogy - The Looks Glass Wars. As we read, students will also be learning effective questioning and discussion skills. Using a pacing guide and guided discussion/reading questions, students will learn and perfect strong reading and discussion skills that they will use again and again throughout their lives. As we read, we will be looking at the differing points of view as we compare and contrast "Looking Glass Wars" and Lewis Carrol's "Alice in Wonderland." The key questions we will ask as we read are "How are we impacted by other people's perception of us? How are others impacted by how we see them and what we say about them?" The beauty of this is that students will be immersed in a fantastic, engaging story while they do it! We will also look at the art created for the text and discuss how it affects our reading and understanding of the novel. The chapters in this awesome book are shorter; so the story moves quickly. Students will use the weekly reading guide to record their thoughts as they engage with the novel. Below is the reading schedule for the class. 

Week 1 - Prologue, Chapters 1-6
Week 2 - Chapters 7-10
Week 3 - Chapters 11-13
Week 4 - Chapters 14-15
Week 5 - Chapters 16-18
Week 6 - Chapters 19-22
Week 7 - Chapters 23-26
Week 8 - Chapters 27-30
Week 9 - Chapters 31-33
Week 10 - Chapters 34-38
Week 11 - Chapters 39-43
Week 12 - Chapters 44 - 47
Week 13 - Chapters 48 - 51
Week  14 - Chapters 52 - 56

Please know that any and every Book Club class that I teach can be made into a private homeschool club during school hours. Please ask about more information!

Learning Goals

Students will be reading an exciting, fast paced book while learning how to dive deeper into the text using guiding questions to help promote thinking while developing Close Reading skills.

Other Details

Supply List
Frank Beddor - (1) The Looking Glass Wars
Printed copy of weekly discussion questions
pen 
*suggestion - post it notes for students to save locations of interesting points for discussion
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Frank Beddor - (1) The Looking Glass Wars Printed copy The Reading Response Journal pen/pencil

Meet the teacher

Joined July, 2020
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Teacher expertise and credentials
Alabama Teaching Certificate in English/Language Arts
Master's Degree in English from University of Alabama Huntsville
Bachelor's Degree in English from University of Alabama Huntsville
I am a certified, former classroom secondary English teacher with a BA and MA in English. I have tutored AP Human Geography, AP World History, AP US History, AP Government/Econ., AP Language, and AP Literature for over 10 years. I have also tutored ACT English and ACT Reading for several years. The materials that we use is content that I have gathered and used with all my face-to-face students.

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