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Royal Fireworks Press Literary Book?

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MariannNOVA

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I am SO waiting for the literary analysis book.

 

FYI, RFWP is also printing a Nature Study volume along the lines of 'classics in the Classroom' for nature study. The author is Laurel Dodge, and I am pasting below info from the yahoo group:

 

Dr. Tom's email:

 

We have our first book from a member of the yahoo group.

 

Laurel Dodge has produced a book on family nature study. It is a foundation volume for a curriculum. It is analogous to CLASSICS IN THE CLASSROOM in that it lays out her approach and sense of importance of the activity.

 

The most exciting part for me is that Laurel has the capacity at many levels to produce a curriculum as important, original, compelling, engrossing, and experience altering as the MCT curriculum. She has an artistic bent that is reminiscent of MCT's. She has an enthusiasm and a joy that remind me of MCT's. She has a life-long commitment that is again like MCT's. She also has the willingness to engage in an unrestrained pursuit of her subject, another MCT trait. The depth of knowledge is certainly there as it is with MCT. Now, of course, she has to produce the books the way MCT did.

 

With young children to homeschool, Laurel will have to have good fortune, dedication, and drive to produce a full curriculum. It seems a good bet that she will.

 

For right now, I am excited about the first book.

 

It is full of Laurel's artwork, and it is too beautiful to print in black and white. It will appear in color, and I expect it to be available in August. When it is available, we'll offer a weekend special and alert the members of this group. I am certain that many of you will enjoy it as much as I do and will look forward to more volumes with as much anticipation as I do.

 

Laurel has the capacity to change how families engage the world and how and what young people are taught about the world around them. I wish that when I was young I had had what she can bring to a youngster's life just as I wish that I had had the MCT curriculum.

 

Tom

 

 

 

 

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Corraleno

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FYI, RFWP is also printing a Nature Study volume along the lines of 'classics in the Classroom' for nature study. The author is Laurel Dodge, and I am pasting below info from the yahoo group:

This sounds wonderful!!! Please post when this becomes available, I'm really looking forward to both the nature study book and the literary analysis one.

 

Jackie

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rachel_rfwp

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Here is a foretaste of the Guide to Literary Terms, which may help:):

 

In the Preface the authors write: We hope this toolbox of vocabulary enables students to define and discuss all aspects of literature and allows them to unlock the mysteries behind the imagery created by great minds.

 

and an example of a stylistic technique: Irony

Types of Irony:

Cosmic Irony

A literary device that contrasts what a character attempts to become and what actually happens, due to forces of the universe. Example: When protagonist Henry in Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage thinks he has survived he instead is suddenly “war†confronted with the true attack or second assault.

Dramatic Irony

Also called Tragic Irony, this occurs when what a character says or believes contradicts what the audience knows to be true. In these circumstances, a character’s words and actions have one meaning for the character and an entirely different meaning for the audience. Example: In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, when John Proctor “forgets†the specific Commandment against adultery, his audience senses the dramatic irony of his Freudian omission.

Situational Irony

A literary device in which the expected action and the actual action are in direct contrast, usually due to forces out of the control of the characters.

Example: Some of the situations that occur with Willie Loman in Miller’s Death of a Salesman are, lamentably, ironic.

Structural Irony

This occurs when a naïve protagonist holds a view or outlook that differs from the one the author holds. The reader will usually feel intellectually

superior to the protagonist, and empathy for the hero often suffers. Example: In Gulliver’s Travels, Swift uses structural irony effectively when his naïve narrator relates tales and judgments of people whom he encounters through the skewed lens of conservative morality/

pride.

Verbal Irony

A figure of speech in which a character says one thing but actually means the opposite. Sarcasm often falls into the classification of verbal irony. Example: When Hamlet says, “I am too much i’ the sun,†he is using both a pun (sun/son) and verbal irony.

 

Table of Contents:

Section I: Literary Forms and Genres....

Section II: An Introduction to Style...........

Section III: The Novel and Short Story.....

Section IV: Drama or the “Playâ€

Section V: The Poem...............

Section VI: Film Studies....

Section VII:

Literary Movements/Periods....

Section VIII: Media Literacy..

References and Bibliography

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