Avatar: The Last Airbender is a masterpiece of modern storytelling. It’s balance of theme, plot, and character development blend together to form a beautiful, powerful, and extremely watchable story. The class will focus on critical thinking as we discuss the themes, character development, and plot development in the series. Students will complete writing exercises based on the unit discussion. Students should be very familiar with the series to get the most out of the class.

Unit 1 -- discussion will delve into the many timeless themes in the Last Airbender, all of which are still applicable today—courage vs fear, love in the face of hate, repentance and forgiveness to name a few. Class members will write a short scene or essay based on the class discussion of theme in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Unit 2 --  we will do a character analysis of Sokka, Katara, Zuko, Aang, Toph, and Iroh and others. Class members will write a short scene or essay based on the class discussion of Character development in Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Unit 3 -- discussion will explore the unique plot development of the Last Airbender and how it added to the show’s success. of Your favorite episodes. We will read and discuss the student writing on character development. Class members will write a fan fiction story based on the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender, or they can come up with trivia questions for fun in the last class.

Unit 4 -- Avatar Last Airbender Trivia Extravaganza

Unit 5 -- Written character analysis of Water or Earth bending character

Unit 6 -- Written character analysis of Air or Fire bending character

Unit 7 -- Avatar Fan fiction writing: Part 1; Guess that character game

Unit 8 -- Avatar Fan fiction writing: Part 2; We share our fan fiction with the class

Each class will involve lecture and slides detailing the elements of the topic and then teacher guided class discussion with the students. Time is limited, but student discussion is an important part of class.