Course “Literary Cuisine” for grades 3–5 - free course from Foxford, training 30 lessons, date December 3, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 07, 2023
Children will get acquainted with works of Russian and foreign literature that are not included in school literature curricula.
The course will help your child become an attentive and curious reader, able to notice details and see the big picture - analyze a specific work, relying on theoretical knowledge, and see the relationships between various texts.
Who will benefit from the course?
A course for children who want to expand their understanding of how a literary text is constructed and what the features of works of various genres are.
What knowledge does the course provide?
The course will deepen knowledge in the field of the literary process and artistic creativity, and will help the child become an attentive reader, able to notice details and see the big picture.
How the training works
The main focus of the course is to study the genre features of works. We will talk about the main components of a literary work in their interaction: time, space, hero.
We manually check samples and homework.
We do not leave the written part assignments for self-testing - this is done by OGE experts.
We check “for real”, like in an exam, and as a result you receive detailed feedback. All this is for the sake of speed of preparation and your results. A personal curator will answer questions within two hours, 24/7.
The curators understand the program and the subject, so they can easily answer your questions about the course and homework - at any time.
They know well how difficult it can be to prepare and understand your worries.
The most important task of a tutor is to help you cope with stress and fear before exams.
The lesson lasts 1 academic hour.
Parts of a whole: what does a work of art consist of?
We will talk about the main elements of a literary text: what place the author occupies in the work, how he builds a fictional world, which characters we empathize with and why we closely follow plot.
- Meet a literary hero
- Literary hero
- Space of artistic text
- Time in literary text
- Author. Narrator. Narrator.
- The plot of a work of art
A great journey through genres
We will get acquainted with the features of different literary genres. We will find out what rules are used to construct works, how genres differ from each other. Let's think about what tasks each genre performs and whether the hero of a fairy tale can end up in a detective story or a romance novel.
- Genres and their foundations. Canon and violation of the canon.
- Folk tales
- Literary fairy tales
- Odyssey
- Adventures
- Detectives
- Fantastic
- Fantasy
- Yuletide story
- Horror
- Humorous genre
- Historical genre
- Love stories
- Language games
- Absurdity in literature
- Comics and manga
- Science in fiction
Generalization
Based on the knowledge gained, we will answer the question of why some works live for centuries, while others are forgotten after a few years. We will get acquainted with works that were able to go beyond literature and change our world.
- Do all works fit into the genre?
- Will literature live forever?