Craft & Structure: Focus on setting, characterization & description across genre. 
-Engage in close, detailed analysis of a written text’s structure and craft and how the author uses them to create meaning. 
-Accurately explain complex literary devices and their role within a text. 

Analysis: Focus on annotation and analytical response to text 
-Apply the imaginative imperative to complex texts and ideas. 
-Apply Innovative, creative, original and flexible thinking to analysis and interpretation

Implications: Focus on characterization & setting
-Learners can meaningfully reflect on how they see themselves and others in texts, as well develop a strong sense of empathy and understanding of the complexity of the human experience.

Writing: Focus on creative- setting, characterization & description
-Write clearly, accurately, and appropriately in a range of genres across academic, modern, creative, reflective and professional contexts 

Homework Offered
Each learner will be provided with a course learning journal from Prisma's accredited program. The journal slide deck is broken into tasks with suggested due dates to help learners manage their work. There will also be opportunities to share progress updates in workshops, get live feedback toward the end of the course, and present their writing at the end. 

To make sure learners can participate in live workshops, it is strongly recommended that learners complete all journal tasks. 
2 - 4 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades Offered
At the end of the course, if all work has been adequately completed, a certificate will be awarded indicating that 0.3 Credits in English have been earned. 

There will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury (Dystopian): Considered the quintessential study in setting, it is written as a chronicle about a lone house that stands intact in a California city that has otherwise been obliterated by a nuclear bomb, and then is destroyed in a fire caused by a windstorm.

Homesick By: Sarah Gailey (Sci-fi): The first-time humans had contact with aliens and they turned out to help them leave earth and move to their huge unused planet on 2 conditions- they must not treat this planet like earth, secondly promise not to kill the crab people.

Nightfall By: Isaac Asimov (Sci-Fi): Widely regarded as one of the greatest science-fiction short stories of all time, the story is about a planet which doesn’t experience nightfall, except once in every 2,049 years, because it is normally lit by six suns. Since every human being alive will find nightfall a terrifying experience when that rare eclipse occurs, scientists worry about the chaos that will ensue when night falls.

Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station | Hours Since the Last Patient Death: 0 By: Caroline M. Yoachim (Choose Your Own Adventure): The protagonist is on a fictional space station and takes a shortcut through the hydroponics garden, whereupon he/she is bitten by some bug that leaves a nasty purple rash. This causes a quandary, as it suggests he/she ought to go to the medical clinic. At the clinic the wait time to be seen is currently six hours. There are various options that we work through from there.

The Migration of Darkness By: Peter Payack (Poetry): Poem about an alternative universe where darkness migrates. 

They are Made Out of Meat By: Terry Bisson (Dialogue): A humorous but thought-provoking theatre dialogue based on a conversation between two aliens about meat creatures (or human beings). The aliens cannot understand how meat can be capable of having feelings, communicating, thinking, or loving.

Mooncop By: Tom Gauld (Graphic Novel): The lunar colony is slowly winding down, like a small town circumvented by a new super highway. As our hero, the Mooncop, makes his daily rounds, his beat grows ever smaller, the population dwindles. A young girl runs away, a dog breaks off his leash, an automaton wanders off from the Museum of the Moon. Each day that the Mooncop goes to work, life gets a little quieter and a little lonelier.