Literature: Term 2 Super Pack

Purchase a discounted term (16 weeks) of classes! This includes:
Discipline and Determination (4 weeks)
When faced with difficult challenges, how should we respond? Discover true determination through the brave stories of two young teenagers. Learn how to brave the endless deep of the ocean and learn how to renavigate life without sight. Part of courage and discipline is being disciplined, as students will see. Evaluate character development and attributes that contribute to heroic actions. Don’t miss these stories of discipline and determination!
 
Wise Choices (4 weeks)
As the rabbits skirt danger at every turn in this book, we become acquainted with the band, its humorous characters, and its compelling culture, complete with its own folk history and mythos. Fiver’s vision finally leads them to Watership Down, an upland meadow. But here they face their most difficult challenges of all. Can they make the wise choices necessary to survive?

Compassion and Perseverance (4 weeks)
What does it take to survive in the Florida backwoods? A lot of perseverance. What does it take to build strong relationships? A lot of compassion. Throughout this book, students will see Jody's struggles with family relationships and friendships, hunger, and the capriciousness of nature through a catastrophic flood. He experiences tender moments with his family, his fawn, and their neighbors and relatives.
 
Exploring (4 weeks)
Who knew you could be a treasure hunter or travel around the world in just eighty days? Without quite expecting to, both Jim and Phileas end up exploring the world, from sailing ships to riding trains to catching hot air balloons. It’s time to explore the world, from the sea to the skies with two explorers with a flair for danger (which wasn’t part of the plan!).
 
Day and Time: Thursdays, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM ET
Bundle Duration: 16 Weeks
Dates: February 6 - May 29, 2025
No class April 17 (Spring Break)
Recommended for: Ages 11+ / Grades 6-7
Teacher: TTK Faculty
Required Materials:* 
Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
Follow My Leader, by James B. Garfield
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
 
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Call It Courage, by Armstrong Sperry
Mafatu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he was the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a race of Polynesians who worshipped courage, and he was named Stout Heart, he feared and avoided the sea, till everyone branded him a coward. When he could no longer bear their taunts and jibes, he determined to conquer that fear or be conquered—so he went off in his canoe, alone except for his little dog and pet albatross. This is the story of how his courage grew and how he finally returned home. This is a legend. It happened many years ago, but even today the people of Hikueru sing this story and tell it over their evening fires.
 
Follow My Leader, by James B. Garfield
After Jimmy is blinded in an accident with a firecracker, he has to relearn all the things he used to know - how to get dressed, how to find his way around the house, even how to eat. With the help of a determined therapist, he learns to read Braille and use a cane. Then he's given the chance to have a guide dog. Learning to work with Leader is not easy, but Jimmy tries harder than he ever has before. Can Leader really give him the ability and the confidence he needs?
 
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Fiver could sense danger. Something terrible was going to happen to the warren; he felt sure of it. They had to leave immediately. So begins a long and perilous journey of survival for a small band of rabbits.
 
The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend.
 
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
The young Jim Hawkins is hired by an old seadog, Billy Bones, to look out for a sailor with one leg. Despite this precaution, Bones is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Searching through his belongings Jim finds a treasure map, which he shows to the local doctor and a wealthy squire. They engage a ship and captain, but unwittingly they hire the ruthless and immensely strong Long John Silver, who has designs on the treasure, as their cook...
 
Around the World in Eighty Days, by Jules Verne
Pragmatic gambler Phileas Fogg has made a gentlemanly wager to the members of his exclusive club: that he can circle the world in just eighty days, right down to the minute. Fetching his newly appointed French valet, Fogg embarks on a fabulous journey across land and sea—by steamer, rail, and elephant—to win the bet of a lifetime.
 
*Students must have the books to participate in the course.