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Genres #2: Splendidly Creepy - Gothic ELA Semester Course (6th, 7th & 8th Grade)

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Alaina Bell Gao
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This intensive middle school semester course is a deep dive into essay writing, creative writing, literary analysis, media analysis, and Victorian history with the Newbery Honor novel, Splendors & Glooms, poetry, short stories, and more!

Class experience

US Grade 6 - 8
Literature & Informational Texts: Key Ideas & Details

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.1
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.1
Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.2
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.2 
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.2
Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details including its relationship to the characters, setting, plot, and supporting details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.3 *Informational Texts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.3
Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes). Analyze the interactions between individuals, events, and ideas in a text (e.g., how ideas influence individuals or events, or how individuals influence ideas or events).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.3 *Informational Texts
Analyze how a text makes connections among and distinctions between individuals, ideas, or events (e.g., through comparisons, analogies, or categories).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.3
Describe how a particular story's or drama's plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.3
Analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (e.g., how setting shapes the characters or plot).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.3
Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action, reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision.

Literature & Informational Texts: Craft & Structure

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.4
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone including analogies or allusions to other texts; analyze the impact of rhymes and other repetitions of sounds (e.g., alliteration) on a specific verse or stanza of a poem or section of a story or drama.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.5
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.5
Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, plot, or ideas.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.5 *Informational Texts
Analyze the structure an author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute to the whole and to the development of the ideas.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.5 *Informational Texts
Analyze in detail the structure of a specific paragraph in a text, including the role of particular sentences in developing and refining a key concept.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.5
Compare and contrast the structure of two or more texts and analyze how the differing structure of each text contributes to its meaning and style.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.5 *This course will form the introduction to poetry and a few basic forms/structures.
Analyze how a drama's or poem's form or structure (e.g., soliloquy, sonnet) contributes to its meaning

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.6 *Informational Texts
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.6
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.6
Determine an author's point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text. Analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. Analyze how the author acknowledges and responds to conflicting evidence or viewpoints.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.6
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.6
Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.6
Analyze how differences in the points of view of the characters and the audience or reader (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.

Literature: Integration of Knowledge and Ideas

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.7
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.7
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.7
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.7
Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they "see" and "hear" when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch. Analyze the extent to which a filmed or live production of a story or drama stays faithful to or departs from the text or script, evaluating the choices made by the director or actors, including the techniques unique to each medium (e.g., lighting, sound, color, or camera focus and angles in a film). Analyze each medium's portrayal of the subject (e.g., how the delivery of a speech affects the impact of the words).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.7
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.7
Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.8 * Informational Texts
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.8 *Informational Texts
Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.8 *Informational Texts
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient; recognize when irrelevant evidence is introduced.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.7.9 *Informational Texts
Analyze how two or more authors writing about the same topic shape their presentations of key information by emphasizing different evidence or advancing different interpretations of facts.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.6.9 *This is part one of a series of courses to compare several main genres.
Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.6.9 *Informational Texts
Compare and contrast one author's presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.7.9
Compare and contrast a fictional portrayal of a time, place, or character and a historical account of the same period as a means of understanding how authors of fiction use or alter history.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.8.9
Analyze how a modern work of fiction draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including describing how the material is rendered new.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.8.9 *Informational Texts
Analyze a case in which two or more texts provide conflicting information on the same topic and identify where the texts disagree on matters of fact or interpretation.

Essay Writing
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/6/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/6/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/7/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/7/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/8/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/8/

Creative Writing
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/6/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/6/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/7/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/7/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/W/8/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/L/8/

Speaking & Listening
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/SL/6/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/SL/7/
http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/SL/8/
Homework Offered
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
 5 files available upon enrollment
Each learner must have their own (or borrowed) copies of: 1) The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket 2) The Bad Beginning audiobook OR A Series of Unfortunate Events (Episode 1) - On Netflix 3) Splendors & Glooms by Laura Amy Schlitz
The Gothic genre is connected with horror and is quite dramatic and sensational. It is often described as being creepy. Therefore, this course is not suitable for sensitive learners. Yet, this course will take a look at how stories with horrifying plotlines (curses, witches, illnesses, blood, poverty, abandonment, violence, death, etc.) provide entertainment and a thrill, but are also often rooted in reality, like social inequality, poor working conditions, and fears about societal changes. 

The novels in this course feature orphans who are thrust into desperate situations with irresponsible and self-serving adults (in order to highlight both the challenges of life and the resourcefulness of these young characters). For this reason, I do not recommend this genre for anyone who has been orphaned or has experienced domestic abuse, since the stories would be triggering. Additionally, the learners must be mature enough to think about the stories critically and to deal with shocking content. However, it is also to be noted that the Gothic genre has been used in history by persons who have been wronged and oppressed, like when it was merged with the slave narrative genre to increase its reach, appeal, and power.

Therefore, the Gothic genre is an influential one, which is an important study, especially when it is masterfully merged with historical fiction by award-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz, but it is not for everyone!
We will use Google Docs for writing and Google for research.
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Hi! My name is Alaina Bell Gao, and I am an experienced Canadian English teacher with 15+ years of professional teaching experience. As a dedicated, creative, gentle, and patient neurodivergent teacher, many neurodiverse learners thrive in my... 
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$60

weekly or $900 for 45 classes
3x per week, 15 weeks
50 min

Completed by 7 learners
Live video meetings
Ages 11-15
2-6 learners per class

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