Literary Analysis
LA416 - Harry Potter Book 3 && 4 (G3-G9)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze the novels Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the author.
LA311 - A Separate Peace & The Outsiders (G4-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze two books: A Separate Peace by John Knowles and The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
LA410 - War and Peace (G6-G9)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes- -conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate- -with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
LA208 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid & A Long Walk to Water (G3-G4)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze the novel Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney and A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the author.
LA310 - Number the Stars & the Giver (G3-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze two books: the novel Number the Stars and The Giver by American writer Lois Lowry. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
LA207 - Mrs. Frizby and the Rats of Nimh (G3-G4)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze the novel Mrs. Frizby and the Rats of Nimh by American writer Robert C. O'Brien. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the author.
LA409 - Gone With the Wind & Little Women (G6-G9)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze two books: the novel "Gone with the Wind" by American writer Margaret Mitchell and the novel "Little Women" by American woman writer Louisa May Alcott. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
LA207 - Mr. Frizby and the Rats of Nimh (G3 - G4)
In the author's pen, rats have changed from the traditional image of being disgusting to being friendly and lovable as a result of civilization. The author also focuses on the description of their solidarity and friendship, diligence and courage, helpful spirit. Some of the main human figures, such as nico Timus, a mouse, are witty, thoughtful and good at leadership, Justin is enthusiastic, brave and energetic, and Mrs Frisby, a vole, has both a motherly heart and a resolute character... They are vividly and impressively portrayed. In addition, the fairy tale style fresh, strange imagination, the author cleverly will bring the miracle of the power of science as a fantasy picture and image description, showing the unique charm of contemporary fairy tales. Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze the novel Mrs. Frizby and the Rats of Nimh by American writer Robert C. O'Brien. This class will cover the book' s historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the author.
LA309 - The Hobbit & The Lord of The Rings (G4 - G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze novels from an epic fantasy series written by the linguist and professor at Oxford University, J.R:R Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings consisting of The Fellowship of The Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of The King. This class will cover the book s historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
LA206 - Novels by Andersen (G3 - G4)
Covering the following novels by Andersen: The Emperor's New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Tinder Box, The Princess and the Pea, Little Ida's Flowers, Thumbelina, The Traveling Companion, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen, Match Girl.Hans Christian Andersen is one of the representatives of fairy tales in world literature. He is also a devout Christian and is known as "the sun of world children's literature". Hans Christian Andersen was the first writer who regarded fairy tales as serious literature in the history of western literature. With a deep understanding of western tradition, he skillfully applied a large number of biblical archetypes and metaphors into his works with ingenious artistic techniques, making his works more profound than traditional fairy tales. He received royal tributes and was highly praised for bringing joy to a generation of children all over Europe. Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales has been translated into more than 150 languages and thousands of books have been published around the world. His most famous fairy tales are "The Emperor's New Clothes", "The Daughter of the Sea" and "Thumbelina".Anderson has a wealth of creativity, no rigid preach, also does not have the copy of the bible the plot and logical relation, but through in the form of a fairy tale, with its noble thought, distinct attitude and strong love and hate are truly reflects his era and the social life, deeply expressed the ordinary people's feelings and wishes. He enthusiastically help praising the fine qualities of the people, and sharply at the same time reveal all sorts of ugly in the society, in order to foil the beauty of mind of the people, make readers discover the truth from the emotional and artistic conception of poem, found in the human soul the most honest, the most beautiful and good thing, so that people's feelings get the purification and sublimation. Therefore, Andersen can be called a great "engineer of human soul". His fairy tales, such as The Emperor's New Clothes, satirized the emperor's stupid incompetence and courtiers' fawning ugliness, praised the selfless fearless, dare to expose the truth of the naive childlike innocence. "The Little Match Girl", "Ugly Duckling" and so on, not only truly described the miserable life of the poor, but also permeated with romantic emotional appeal and fantasy.
LA408 - Pride and Prejudice & Jane Eyre (G6 - G9)
Throughout this course, you will learn Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" and The novel "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte.Pride and Prejudice is the representative work of British novelist Jane Austen, which has been adapted for TV and film for many times. It is a love story of a pair of young people, because of the arrogance of one side and the prejudice of the other side. Author with female peculiar sharp and delicate observation, depicts the rich, leisure class quiet comfortable rural life and the love and marriage, ladies with superb artistic skills to reflect the 18th century British towns, daily life to blow into simple realism novel creation, in the English novel plays an essential role. With twists, drama, fresh language and wit, it is Austen's most popular novel.Jane Eyre is a full-length novel created by Charlotte Bronte, an English woman writer. It is an autobiographical work. The novel tells the story of Jane Eyre, an orphan girl whose parents died when she was young. She was fostered in her aunt's house, where she was abused and sent to an orphanage by her aunt. The orphanage was harsh, but she managed to survive. Two years after graduation, Jane went to work as a tutor to make a living, and master Rochester between the story. There are two basic melodies in Jane Eyre's pursuit of life: passion, fantasy, resistance and perseverance; The longing for human freedom and happiness and the pursuit of a higher spiritual realm. The theme of this novel is through the lonely girl's bumpy life experience, successfully created a restless, unwilling to be humiliated, dare to fight the female image, reflects the cry and rebuke of an ordinary heart frankly, a lowercase man to become a capital man's desire.
Reading Club - The Swiss Family Robinson & The Old Man and the Sea (G4-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull in reading and analyzing The Swiss Family Robinson (Johann David Wyss), The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway), and an extra short story. This class will cover high-level character and plot analysis, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
Reading Club - The Little Prince & Treasure Island (G4-G5)
Join Mr. Julio Scull in reading and analyzing The Little Prince(Antoine Saint-Exuperyand Treasure sland (Robert Louis Stevenson. This class will cover high-level character and plot analysis, sentence structure, and vocabulary
Literary Analysis Seminar (G6-G9)
This course consists of structured fiction, poetry, and nonfiction units! Fiction units: students to read short stories, gain exposure to the essential in-story plot elements, and learn to annotate Poetry units: students to read one long poem and apply their knowledge of literary elements to analyze it. Nonfiction units: students to read, understand, and analyze argumentative and informative works with instructor's guidance. Note: All readings incorporated into the curriculum are AP-level material and will each be given a high-level analysis, the depth of which will depend on students' performance and concept absorption. The instructor may assign homework.
Reading Club - Julius Caesar & The Last of Mohicans (G6-G9)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare) and The Last of Mohicans (by James Fenimore Cooper) This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
Literacy Analysis Little Prince and Treasure Island (G4-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze The Little Prince( Antoine de SaintExupery and Treasure lsland (Robert Louis Stevenson). This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Reading Club - Christmas Carol & Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (G4-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze Christmas Carol (by Charles Dickens) and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (by Jules Verne). This class will cover the books historical background, high- level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
Reading Club - The Call of the Wild & Oliver Twist (G4-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze The Call of the Wild (Jack London) and Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens). This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Reading Club - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Matilda (G3-G4)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze two books from Roald Dahl: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory & Matilda. This class will lead the students to read paragraphs, cover vocabulary, sentence structure, and perform age-appropriate character and plot analysis.
Close Reading Session 1 Hamlet (G4-G9)
This course is a literature seminar focusing on the close reading and analysis of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. Students will read the play and have small Socratic Seminars on the material, as well as cross analyzing with other works of art and literature. This course is well-suited for 6th through 9th graders interested in building their literary analysis skills.
LA406 - Fail Safe & Hunt for Red October (G6-G9)
These are two "edge of your seat" books that tell two stories about the cold war. Fail Safe is a very realistic book at the fear of nuclear war during the 50s and 60s. Hunt for Red October is an action filled story of the internal and external struggle two opposing submarine captains go through in the 1980s.
LA308 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Brave New World (G4-G6)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze two books:《Dr. Jekyll and Mr.Hyde 》and Brave New World》This class will cover the book's historical background,high-level character and plot analysis,vocabulary. writing styles.and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.Mr. Julio Scull is a great writer and teacher. He has published hundreds of articles about culture, business,politics. intelligent solutions to problems.history. creativity. and critical thinking. At China University of Political Science and Law,he has taught MBA Courses in business, International marketing. international business strategies. and international marketing for undergrad students At Beijing Foreign Studies University. he taught business English and Latin American history and civilization He also taught English and western culture to employees at The Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in Beijing.
LA205 - The Silver Chair & The Last Battle (G3-G4)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze, two books:《The Silver Chair》 and《The Last Battle》This class will cover the books historical background,high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles,and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.Mr. Julio Scull is a great writer and teacher. He has published hundreds of articles about culture. business, politics, intelligent solutions to problems, history. creativity, and critical thinking.At China University of Political Science and Law. he has taught MBA Courses in business, international marketing, international business strategies, and international marketing for undergrad students. At Beijing Foreign Studies University. he taught business English and Latin American history and civilization. He also taught English and western culture to employees at The Ministry of Emergency Management of the People's Republic of China and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade in Beijing.
LA204 - the Lion & the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian (G3-G4)
Join Mr. Julio Scull to read and analyze two books: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
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LA405 - A Tale of Two Cities & The Demolished Man (G6-G9)
This course will read and analyze two books: A Tale of Two Cities and The demolished man. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles, and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
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LA307 - Les Miserable & Death on the Nile (G4-G6)
This course will read and analyze two books: Les Miserable and Death on the Nile. This class will cover the book's historical background, high-level character and plot analysis, vocabulary, writing styles and literary techniques employed by the respective authors.
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