**  Students will need to read through chapter 7 before class 1**

**PARENTS: This book involves death.  Students will be reading about, talking about and writing about death.  This book also talks about a magical circus. **

This class is an intensive literature study. It is very in depth. This study is for any student with the desire to expand their knowledge of this book and literature in general. Each week learners will join us twice per week. In the literature portion of this class learners will go over the following:

Character
Character motivation
Conflict
Plot development 
Symbolism
Theme
Conflict resolution
Backstory
Vocabulary

In the writing portion of this class students will write about the following:

Hope and Dreams
Friendship/Family
Keeping Childhood Alive
One Pager Activity for Literary Analysis
Along with independent study on one of the following:
-creating own circus (project with a marketing plan and oral presentation)
-knot making and its uses (project with a marketing plan and oral presentation)
-bending light (project with a marketing plan and oral presentation)
-optical illusions (project with a marketing plan and oral presentation)



All writing assignments will be in the form of essays and reports.  Students will be asked if they would like to share with the class.  They do not have to if they don't desire to.  We will offer teacher and student feedback.  Students will work heavily with the teacher as well as their peers while creating their writings.  All of our writing and English studies will be heavily discussion based.  Students will work on writing in and out of class.  Students will go over their work for revisions with the teacher and will complete a final draft.

We are so excited to bring you this course!  Here is a breakdown of the reading that will be done at home between meetings.
Week 1- Chapters 1-7
Week 2- Chapters 8-15
Week 3- Chapters 15-21
Week 4- Chapters 22-28
Week 5- Chapters 29-36
Week 6- One Pager and Project Presentations

You will read each chapter at home completing 7 chapters per week. You will complete all writing and study materials in class time. 2 hours per week will be spent together in class with more being spent during Weeks 4 and 5 for the projects being presented for Week 6.

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