Literature Study

You love your book club, so how can you create the same engaging environment for your kids? Literary fun isn’t just for the classroom. It’s a Pelican Book Club starter kit!

After we’ve understood what an author has to say, the next step is to compare that author’s ideas to those of others we have read. In this webinar, we discuss how to go about teaching our students to put authors in conversation.

The eternal questions can seem so theoretical and uninteresting to students. Is there a compelling way to get them engaged in these important conversations?

An introductory guide to taking notes as you read.

As fantasy grows ever more popular in our culture, books and movies teem with elements that many Christian parents find objectionable. How can we equip our children to engage and influence their culture while protecting them from its evils?

Adam makes a case for a type of reading that can accomplish both of these goals, and a vision for the Christian imagination that can restore our civilization to its roots in the transcendent God of all worlds, seen and unseen. What are the implications of a culture dominated by fairy tales and fantasy? Will it be ruled by wizards and dragons and enchantments? Equip your students to navigate these waters for themselves!

Can movies provide valuable literary discussion? If so, how is it done?

How do we bring our students into a love and understanding of this often challenging art form?

Keeping notes on what you read can be a great way engage with a book and make sure it stays with you after you turn the last page. For a student, it can offer a more human alternative to the worksheet or comprehension question. But what kinds of things should we encourage our students to journal about?

It isn’t a stretch to say that literature and history are a natural pairing. History is a narrative of the past, and literature is a product of its historical context. But what are the differences between these two studies? And what do we do when we encounter the marriage of these studies in a work of historical fiction? How do we receive from historical fiction without doing violence to either the art of literature or the art of history?

Here at CenterForLit we want to listen quietly to what authors have to say instead of using their work in a way they did not intend. But there’s no denying that the arts of vocabulary and grammar are strongly related, and even necessary predecessors, to the art of literature. So how do we make sure all of these areas get covered without sacrificing our literary philosophy?