**Important Note: This class begins in September.**

****This is a full-year, two-semester class.****Breaks will be scheduled.

Using the first three novels of The Chronicles of Narnia, students will experience the enchanted land of Narnia through the Structure and Style writing method. Through their writing and discussion, students will engage in a variety of topics, many focused on World War II.

Students must read assigned chapters before class. The novels are a crucial part of the class. Writing assignments are dependent on assigned reading.

Students will have the opportunity to discuss the story in class and through collaboration boards.

Students should be able to read at a sixth-grade level or higher.

Students should understand the eight parts of speech in English Grammar.

Students will have homework to turn in. Students must be able to type their assignments using the MLA format.

I will edit turned-in assignments and give feedback to learners.

Learners must complete assigned homework. This includes completing keyword outlines, writing essays that we discuss in class, and reading assigned chapters in the Narnia books.

Students will have opportunities to present their essays. 

This is not a graded class. Students work to accomplish each assignment's checklist.

Learners will need the student book for Following Narnia® Volume 1: The Lion's Song:
https://www.rainbowresource.com/product/051636/Following-Narnia-Volume-1-The-Lions-Song-Student-Book.html?

Learners will need the first three novels of the series:
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy

Students will complete the entire book in this class.

This includes:
-making keyword outlines and narrating a story using outlines
-writing a paragraph from notes
-retelling a story in their own words using outlines
-creating a title 
-writing an essay following a story sequence chart
-summarizing multiple references
-writing from pictures
-practicing inventive writing
-writing formal essays and critiques
-response to literature essays
-using dress-ups, decorations, and sentence openers to create variations in sentences

I will teach the concept and model lessons. We will work together in class to brainstorm ideas; students are expected to participate. 

Students should expect to spend time outside of class completing their assignments.

While all nine units are completed in this course, they are not completed in order. 

Writing Topics:
Week 1: Units 1 and 2: Note Making and Outlines- Sherlock Holmes
                          HOMEWORK assigned

Week 2: Units 1 and 2: Writing from Notes- Atlantis
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 3: Unit 2: Writing from Notes- Jadis Tells a Story
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 4: Unit 3: Retelling Narrative Stories- Sister Tells a Story
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 5: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- Digory and Jack
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 6: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- First Voice
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 7: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- Buckingham Palace
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 8: Unit 5: Writing from Pictures- A Lamp-Lost is Planted
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 9: Unit 5: Writing from Pictures- Forked End Down
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 10: Unit 5: Writing from Pictures- Take of My Fruit
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 11: Unit 6: Summarize Multiple References- Predatory Pitcher Plant
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 12: Unit 6: Summarize Multiple References- Crown Jewels of England
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 13: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- Air Raids 
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 14: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- Evacuations from London
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 15: Unit 7: Inventive Writing- Diary of an Evacuee
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 16: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- The Manipulative Witch
                          HOMEWORK assigned

Week 17: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- The Fearsome Witch
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 18: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- The Spiteful Witch
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 19: Unit 8: Formal Essay- The White Witch
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 20: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- Adolph Hitler 
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 21: Unit 7: Inventive Writing- The Witch and Hitler
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 22: Unit 7: Inventive Writing- Peter and Edmund
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 23: Unit 4: Summarize a Reference- Roosevelt and Churchill
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 24: Unit 8: Formal Essay- C.S. Lewis
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 25: Unit 7: Inventive Writing- Chores
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 26: Unit 9: Formal Critique- The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 27: Response to Literature- Bree
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 28: Response to Literature- Aslan
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 29: Response to Literature- The Horse, His Boy, and Avaris
                           HOMEWORK assigned

Week 30: Response to Literature- The Horse and His Boy
                           HOMEWORK assigned
                        
A basic understanding of English grammar is required.