Literary Analysis for 12 yo

[susie in tx]

We're currently using Lightning Lit 7 for literary analysis. My dd loves it. However, I'm attempting to streamline our days a bit more, as I feel as though she's spending too much time working on her schoolwork. Plus, I really need to carve out some more time for my littles. They are begging to do more work. :)

Recently, I purchased TOG. I wasn't planning on using it for literature, so much as using it for suggestions on books to read. I figured that the Student Activity Pages were just a little bonus. I've since spent some time looking at the lit, and it looks pretty good. I don't see much, if any, poetry in it until rhetoric level. However, the Pages do go over basic literary terms and it appears as though I may be able to use this at the UG and D levels for lit analysis.

Lightning Lit walks me through all of the terms and explanations for my student. TOG doesn't do a lot of that. Is there a book that I could pick up that would be a help for our homeschool that would explain literary terms? I'm looking for the Strunk & White of lit analysis, I guess.

Thanks.

[Beth in Central TX]

What about Teaching the Classics? The video teaches you how to do a story chart, but the workbook has a great appendix with Socratic dialogue questions along with the literary terms.

http://www.curriculumconnection.net/teachingclassics.htm

[Zee]

I would second Beth's idea of "Teaching the Classics." I will be doing the Dialectic level for TOG next year and have planned to use TTC along with TOG. There is another mom on this board that is currently doing this and she said that it is working well for her. HTH.

[cajun.classical]

There are many Handbooks of Literary Terms to choose from. I'm not sure how much hand holding you're looking for. The handbooks will just list and define the terms.

If you are looking for something more, I would suggest picking up a cheap used copy of a Freshmen level University anthology of literature. Norton and Prentice Hall have good ones. They are usually called An Introduction to Literature. The Prentice Hall one is called Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. These will include all the basic literary terms, explanations, examples, even showing you how to analyze stories and write literary essays. A cheap used copy would be a real bargain.

[Lisawa]

Teaching the classics is working well for us.... I bought the book at first... I didn’t know what I was buying and didn’t want to drop a big chuck on the dvds if it wasn’t what I was looking for.... The book itself proved valuable so I purchased the dvds at our State convention this last June. I Love it and its fitting in nicely.

I use the Socratic list in the appendix and choose form it best I can. It has been helping draw the book out of her.... We are also studying the terms as vocabulary.

Its been a big help for us.... we are still using the classic TOG. Not much for dialect discussions for history or literature....

HTH~

[Lori D.]

Figuratively Speaking covers 40 literary elements.
Each is covered in 3 pages, with:
- definition
- examples from classic literature
- exercises to practice seeing or using the literary term

See sample page and table of contents at Rainbow Resource:
http://rainbowresource.com/search.php?sid=1203482445-1387405

[MIch elle]

It just doesn't tell about it but tells and applys it in the stories and poems the dc read along with vocabulary, criticial thinking and more.

[GreenKitty]

We are enjoying CLE also. (thanks to MIch elle;)) Though we use LL too.
Figuratively speaking looks pretty good, thanks for the info Lori, I had never come across that.

[MIch elle]

We are enjoying CLE also. (thanks to MIch elle;)) .


Shalom,

[Hoggirl]

We went through this last year, and I found it very helpful for ds. We went through the first part of Walch Prose and Poetry Toolbox earlier this year. We just did the "prose" part. Next year we will do the "poetry" part. Both of these are workbooks that really cut to the chase!

[susie in tx]

Thanks y'all. After looking at many of the options that were recommended, I realized I was looking for something like Perrine's book. Also, TOG has a list of literary terms vocabulary with definitions available for download on the Loom. I just hadn't seen that before.