The Essential Focus of this course is the role that literature plays in helping us all to become more human and humane. We will be reading stories and poems about how people become kinder and wiser through their interactions with animals, such as dogs and horses. Among our authors, Albert Payson Terhune, Jack London, Anna Sewell (the writer of Black Beauty), and
The Yearling, a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings which won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939. We will see films, write stories, and develop our classroom community around the value of helping others who are less fortunate than ourselves to feel that they too are a part of the whole. This is going to be a wonderful year! Welcome all! Bring in your pictures and your stories about your favorite pet!
Link to Chapter 1 "His Mate"
LAD: A DOG by Albert Payson Terhune
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
List unfamiliar words and phrases for discussion in class
Words such as "indispensable" and "benign" and "veranda" could reappear on a quiz!
In the sentence, "Three years earlier, when Lad was in his first prime (before the mighty chest and shoulders had filled out and the tawny coat had waxed so shaggy)," the word waxed means:
a) made of wax
b) treated with wax
c) increased in size
d) a method for removing hair
Lean a new phrase:
wax and wane: to undergo alternate increases and decreases : companies whose fortunes wax and wane with the economic cycle.
When the moon becomes more visible it "waxes."
How does a veranda differ from a balcony?
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