Reading in Gifted & Talented Literature Circles
This fun class provides gifted learners the opportunity to engage challenging literature with advanced vocabulary in a cooperative setting. Students will interpret, analyze, and debate. The feature text is "The Lady or the Tiger."
Dr. Sonja Gedde
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:(31)
What's included
1 live meeting
45 mins in-class hoursClass Experience
Welcome to our GT literature course! This one-time class follows the principles of a literature circle to offer gifted learners the opportunity to engage in enriching discussions about challenging literature. During our course, students will receive a copy of a challenging text and read aloud together, receiving tips and coaching on reading fluency as well as oral interpretation techniques. Then, we will spend our remaining time engaged in a guided discussion where students have the opportunity to test theories and interpretations, engage in multiple-perspective conversations, and dig deeper into the text, learning various literary analysis strategies.
Learning Goals
*Students will gain exposure to a wide range of literary texts representing various genres, authors, time periods, cultures, and perspectives, including stories, dramas, and poems within a complexity band appropriate to age and level
*Students will be able to cite several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
*Students will determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.
*Students will analyze how particular elements of a story or drama interact (for example: how setting shapes the characters or plot)
Other Details
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Various texts covered - each text will be posted online prior to class.
Joined January, 2021
5.0
31reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
-Dr. Sonja is a 19+ year veteran educator with a Ph.D. in Education and an Ed.S. in Leadership.
-Dr. Sonja has taught at every level from elementary through collegiate, working with over 10,000 students in her career in Minnesota, North Dakota, Nevada, Colorado and in international destinations including Vietnam, Belize, Panama, China, Puerto Rico, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Hungary, Belgium, Indonesia, and Iceland.
-Dr. Sonja has taught classes in Language Arts, Drama/Theater, Speech, Creative Writing, Reading Intervention, Gifted and Talented Enrichment, College Preparatory Writing, World Literature, American Literature, Journalism, Photo Journalism, Yearbook, Health, and Physical Education.
-Dr. Sonja has expertise and additional training working with gifted learners as well as leaders with special needs.
-Dr. Sonja holds state certifications as both a K-12 English Educator and Principal.
-Dr. Sonja holds nine nationally accredited fitness certifications.
-Dr. Sonja also serves on the Honors faculty at Colorado State University, teaching courses in Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Pedagogy, Interviewing, Educational Philosophy, and Pedagogy,Reviews
Live One-Time Class
$12
per classMeets once
45 min
Completed by 2 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-14
4-8 learners per class
