Classic Novel Tutoring: Guided Reading for Comprehension and Analysis

Hello and thank you so much for the interest!

CLASS SYNOPSIS
In this one-on-one tutoring course, I will meet with your student once per week to assist them in comprehension and analysis of classic literature

OVERVIEW/DETAILS
    • One 55-minute meeting every week
    • Attentive, patient, one-on-one reading work with your student
    • This tutoring is perfect for any student who needs help with classic literature.  This means that I can help by creating original curriculum (with writing), simple read-along guidance, analytical discussions, or assistance with their novel-related schoolwork!

EXAMPLES OF SKILLS I CAN HELP WITH
     • Nonfiction & fiction text (NOTE: my specialty is fiction) 
     • Reading Comprehension 
     • Reading Analysis
     • Assigned schoolwork (I can assist without providing the correct answer!)
     • Novels
     • Short Stories
     • Comprehension questions
     • Analysis questions
     • Author biography
     • Literary period
     • Historical influence
     • Intertextual analysis
     • Literary elements
     • Vocabulary
     *NOTE* While I am trained, willing to prepare and research for, and even experienced in test-prep, it is not my specialty

NOVELS I CAN TEACH INCLUDE:
While I am willing to take on additional texts, and am trained to do-so, these are the titles I am most familiar with:
(Alphabetical by title)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
Beowulf
Big Two-Hearted River (Ernest Hemingway)
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger)
The Curious Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Dracula (Brahm Stoker)
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald)
The Hobbit (JRR Tolkien)
The Hound of Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The House on Mango Street (Sandra Cisneros)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
The Lord of the Rings Series (JRR Tolkien)
Macbeth (Shakespeare)
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Outsiders (SE Hinton)
Passing (Nella Larsen)
The Pearl (John Steinbeck)
Peter Pan (JM Barrie)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Riders of the Purple Sage (Zane Grey)
Romeo & Juliette (Shakespeare)
The Scarlett Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorn)
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
The Silmarillion (JRR Tolkien)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neal Hurston)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
White Fang (Jack London)

TEACHING STYLE
    • Down-to-earth tutoring
    • I patiently persist with encouragement and support
    • I think creatively to present concepts in different ways until it is comprehended by your learner
    • While students will be challenged to think deeply, their perspective will always be encouraged and celebrated.  
    • I hope that students feel as welcomed to think as they are challenged in their thinking. 
    • I will read whatever your student is reading; after all, how can I truly understand an assignment if I haven't done it myself?