Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen is an absolute joy to read and study for teens who are open to the pleasures of 19th-century prose and manners. It is the perfect book for group discussion and analysis because Austen's use of language and prose can be hard to appreciate and understand when reading alone.  
 
Students will read approximately 60 pages a week on their own time. Each week a new video will discuss the pages that the students have previously read. This class does not meet live. The prerecorded sessions will emphasize characters, their motivations, theme, story plausibility, and inferences about what might come next. We will also refer to any symbolism within the story and discuss what the author intentioned to represent with those symbols.

Each Sunday, students will have access to a video that covers the important elements of the week's reading and a corresponding one page worksheet with discussion questions and places for fill-in-the blank answers. The worksheets will also address/remind the students of some of the important topics from each chapter. Each week, I assign a short writing assignment focused around that week's discussion questions and ask the students to share their responses in the classroom (so other students may view, comment, and interact as well). I also ask students to submit any vocabulary words the students didn't recognize or passages the students did not understand. The more questions the students ask, the more "discussion" we can have in the classroom after each chapter. 

Weekly breakdown: 
Sunday: Students will receive a worksheet and discussion questions for each weekly video. There is one weekly writing assignment to complete after the weekly readings. 

Monday: I post an I Spy challenge and ask the students to list one specific item they can "spy" from the week's reading. These items may force the students to think abstractly (for example, I might ask them to spy a character showing jealousy). Students can also challenge other students (or myself!) to find other items as well. 

Tuesday through Fridays: I will post a vocabulary word from the weekly reading for the students to use in a sentence that showcases their understanding of the definition.  

Saturday: I post a link to a Kahoot! trivia game the students can complete to further immerse themselves in this story's era. Students can share their scores in the classroom or ask for hints about any tricky questions to share their experience with their classmates. 

Posts are almost always available in the classroom at 1 am EST.