(Recorded Course) The Orphans Find a Home: A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Story: Living History Through Literature with Jackie de Laveaga

 

Sign up for The Orphans Find a Home to learn history in an engaging, enjoyable study of this novel. You will learn about life in New York City during the 1890s through the protagonist of our story and share that knowledge with a fun project of your choice.

 

Special Notes: This is Part Four of a four-part course. Students can register for one, two, three, or all four courses throughout the academic year.

How to get the most out of American History 3: The Orphans Find a Home, A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Story with Jackie de Laveaga:

  • Have a notebook ready and available for class notes during each class recording session.
  • Read the assigned chapters for each week.
  • Do the assignments, quizzes, and any extra work assigned for that week after you watch the recording.
  • Information on this page which appears in a red font indicates an assignment for the students to complete or something for them to download.

Total classes: 4

Duration per class: 30 minutes

Instructor: Jackie de Laveaga, BA, M.Ed.

Instructor Email: hsc@delaveaga.app

Course description: Living History Through Literature is a project-based course series. These courses weave the study of literature into a meaningful and engaging encounter with a specific era of history. In LHTL: American History 4, we travel to New York City in 1890 to meet three orphans that Mother Cabrini rescues from the streets. This novel will enlighten students on how a modern saint responded with grace and charity to poor, homeless immigrants. Students will study the historical context of the novel and participate in engaging literature discussions. In this project-based course, students will engage in short quizzes and in projects of their choice. Project options will include fiction writing, preparing period-specific food and/or costumes, creating lapbooks, recreating scenes from the novel (Legos, clay, K’nex, digital drawing, hand-drawing, etc.), building a timeline, mapping, and more.

Course outline:

      Class 1: Overview of Historical Context and Novel Introduction

·    Class 2: Literature Discussion; Project Introduction; Literary Devices; Analysis

·    Class 3: Literature Discussion; Cultural Overview; Project Ideas; Analysis

·    Class 4: Literature Discussion; Fiction Writing Tips; Analysis

Course materials: The Orphans Find a Home: A St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Story by Joan Stromberg, 

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Homework: Regular quizzes and reading assignments. Each module, students will work on one project-based assignment that will culminate in a final novel project submission (due at the end of week 4). Homework (including novel reading) will take 1.5-3 hours per class. Parents are encouraged to support younger students by reading texts aloud and helping with project planning and execution.