We are working three long days a week. Lacie has read Robinson Crusoe. We plan to complete Kolbe Academy's questions in the study guide next. I also want her to write a paper. One of Kolbe's essay topics is to describe how the island made RC a better man. (The wording is a bit different.) We are using this topic as a thesis statement for a research paper. We are starting with a list of RC's character traits before and after with quotes from the book. This is a work in progress. We started by discussing RC's traits before writing the list. Another approach is to use concept maps. I use IHMC's free concept mapping software. My Science blog has examples of the concept maps like this one.
Lacie is taking Chemistry with me, too. I'll go over concept maps soon then. After, we can apply concept maps to literature. In fact, concept maps are good tools to think about the parts of a paper or the story line.
After Lacie wrote the list, I asked her to go back and locate quotes that represent the traits of RC. I'm having her write a bit of the quote and the page number in her copy of the book. This discussion led to the use of MLA to cite quotes from a novel.
The next step is writing an outline for a five (or six) paragraph essay.
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