Nara Duffie completed her first novel, The Monster Realm, 11 days before her 11th birthday. In this TED Talk, she gives advice on how to write your own story!
Crash Course: Literature Analysis with YA author John Green
In 8 episodes, YA author John Green (The Fault in Our Stars, Turtles All The Way Down and many more!) dives into literature! The analyses and books chosen in this course are based on introductory college-level curriculum and the AP Literature guidelines. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Use characters and setting to explore a range of values, beliefs, assumptions, biases, and cultural norms
Discuss the role of the narrator and how their perspective affects how readers experience and interpret a text
Recognize comparisons, representations, and associations that invite readers to interpret a text
Explain the function of significant events in a plot, as well as the contributions of structure, sequence, contrast, and conflict
Employ different lenses and focal points to read a text multiple ways and recognize the glorious ambiguity of literature
Discuss how different texts employ time as a theme
Find all 8 episodes here!
