The Summer 2026 class will meet online with Mrs. Moss, through Zoom, every Wednesday afternoon, from 3:30-5:30pm, on the following dates:

• 6/10/2026

• 6/17/2026

• 6/24/2026

• 7/01/2026

• 7/08/2026

• 7/15/2026

• 7/22/2026

• 7/29/2026

• 8/05/2026

• 8/12/2026

Course Description

This Combo course provides an introductory avenue for students to venture deeper into detailed analyses of thematically rich texts. Building nuanced habits atop our comprehensive literacy training will strengthen students' learning strategies for reading analytically as well as responding to texts in writing and through discussion. Each week, both individually and in small groups, students will receive rotating reading roles/missions to guide their discovery of important elements of the text, direct their purpose(s) in taking active reading notes, facilitate group discussion, and help them lead class seminar-debate-oral presentations.

Focusing solely on the analytical genre, the writing portion of the course will prepare students to accurately articulate the themes derived from their chosen text and accompanying prose and poetry – varying their nuanced knowledge of analysis, generating and judging thesis statements, formulating topic sentences and integrating direct quotes, and building complex commentary, ultimately demonstrating their mastery of comprehension and composition with a demonstrated ability to approach and analyze texts with a variety of critical lenses. Mrs. Moss invites students who completed one or more consecutive course(s) in Critical Reading and Writing Workshop to engage in this advanced combo course to broaden their critical understanding and empower their foundational analyses with scrutinized skillsets..

What to Expect?

In the course of a Reading/Writing Combo term, students will actively annotate a short novel in addition to developing their analytical writing skills. After an introduction to active, annotative reading on the first day of class, students will continue to practice building annotative habits each week; students will not only practice annotating for various elements of literature, including, at minimum, a bullet-point summary at the end of each chapter and labeling of key quotes for character, setting, conflict, theme, and style, they will also incorporate the Six Traits of Writing into each of their analytical tasks. Aside from their annotative responsibilities, students will complete analytical reading charts for character and theme as well as short analytical writing prompts, each pertaining to their specific text.

NOTICE: Within twenty-four hours of your purchase, LitQuest will send a "Welcome" email that contains a set of files to help prepare your student for their class, including a “Zoom Access” file that will grant entry to the online classroom throughout the course of the term.