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Saint Paul's Lutheran School Kingsville, MD Mr. Skip Osbourn
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WHAT IS A LITERATURE CLASS?
Until now, you have had a Reading class. In that class you read from a textbook and learned reading strategies and skills. The whole focus was learning how to be a better and more confident reader. While you will still be working on those skills this year, your 6th grade Literature class will focus on reading Literature. Literature means "written works of excellence of form or expression and ideas." So in Literature class you will be reading novels and discovering what ideas or lessons the author wants you to learn.
The Literature class will be made up of four parts: 1) Class work that involves skill lessons and reading strategy exercises 2) The occasional use of the class reader Tapestries to read short selections 3) The reading of novels as a class and in small groups 4) Reading books independently on your own
Our year will begin with reading Freedom Crossing. This historical novel is set in New York during the time of the Underground Railroad. As a class we will be reading five novels throughout the school year. The school will provide two of these novels. You are asked to pay $15 to cover the cost of the thee books that your child will keep. The school will take care of ordering the books. Checks should be made payable to St. Paul's Lutheran School. You will also be required to read novels of your choice independently and report on them in a variety of ways. Guidelines will be given as to what kind of books you should choose and what your projects should look like.
I read because one life isn't enough and in the pages of a book I can be anybody. Newbery Award Winner Richard Peck
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