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KIR L8 Reading/Writing

duration: 4 weeks
price: free
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About this Course

This course focuses on basic English literacy skills for advanced English learners. Topics covered include responding to questions from source content and the production of a 3 to 4-page analysis paper

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Learning modules

  • week 1
    • Stories Matter article, SourceWork Thesis, Freewriting and editing

    • Read Red Riding Hood Story

    • Timed Response, Grown Ups Still Need Fairy Tales, Free Writing

    • Read the Three Little Bears

    • Retold 3 Bears, Too Scary for Children, Storytelling helps with Literacy, SourceWork, Freewriting

    • Read The 12 Dancing Princesses and Be Ready to Write a Topic Sentence if this is a Paragraph

  • week 2
    • The Role of Folktales Today, Thesi, Paraphrase, Freewrite

    • Read "The Crocodile and the Hunter" (p. 15 in the Penguin reader) and be able to do a Timed Response on it

    • Timed Response, Stories you Tel yourself Affect your life, Thesi, Freewriting

    • Read p. 36, Wisdom for Sale, in your Penguin reader and be able to tell the story, also choose a fairy tale that you want to do your paper on

    • Storytelling is a Pillar of Meaningful Life, Thesis, Paraphrase, Freewriting

    • Read your original fairy tale online, be ready to summarize it in a response, think of 3 similarities or differences from the sheet I gave you (with the most recent movie)

    • Timed Response, Paraphrase, and Thesis Quizzes, Outlines, Freewriting

    • Watch the most modern movie of your fairy tale and finish your outline

    • Timed Response Quiz to Grimm's version of their fairy tale

    • Paraphrase Quiz

    • Thesis Quiz

  • week 3
    • Powerpoint and article (below), Looked for other sources for paper (CRAP, if yes), Started WORKS CITED for Grimm and movie

    • Read article (below), Decide what you are quoting, summarizing, and paraphrasing; write it in your outline and WORKS CITED (below)

    • 2 Greek Mythology articles below, Writing the paper below

    • Read "The Boy Who Few Too High" below

    • Roman Mythology article, Essays

  • week 4
    • Read Wikipedia American Folklore article, Essays

    • Read Babe the Blue Ox

    • Read 9 Legends of American Folklore, Essay

    • Read "Brer Rabbit and Tar Baby"

    • Movie and Essay Work

    • Final Exam

    • Comparison 3 pg Essay

About the Instructor

15 courses

40 students

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April Hetrick

26 courses

68 students

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Natasha Gordon

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