Wendi/Story a la Cart
From ThinkPrank
Story a la Cart
Literature-based Events and Services
Offerings
cozy armchair readings from antiquarian books
college admissions and SAT: personal experience and literary references in a mature, authentic, confident voice
voice, shape, editing, publishing and readings...for your personal creative writing projects
a sampler of famous first chapters
garden party readings
playreadings suited to your party people
readings dramatized by children with puppets, costumery, music, and movement
caring attention, resources, and strategies designed for your temperament, learning style, and gifts
grammar, vocabulary-building, and rhetoric via literature
relax or work at home while your children are read classic children's tales
beautiful thematic bookshelves
primary source literature for home learning and enrichment in all disciplines
foreign language and ESL conversation and readings with a native speaker
individual or group discussions of great books
Why a Literature-based Approach to Education?
First Person Superhero
Lesson in a box
Artcase
Literature as art, history, drama and philosophy in addition to grammar, vocabulary, rhetoric, and writing
photo: Jordy reading in the garden
photo: bookshelf in garden, apple, quill, sunhat, autoharp, flute, classic books, reference books, globe
A moveable feast/shelf A traveling bookcase Book cart Theme in a box Lesson in a box Schoolhouse delivered Library Cozy, comfy cupboard The Book Nook Mobile schoolhouse xxx on wheels Literary timetraveller Literary tourist discovery The Secret Bookshelf setee Book Den book cupboad fable, mythical bookshelf sampler book muse
Events,
Entertaining Education at Home or School
Tailored Tutoring
Book Tastings --A Bookshelf Sampler of Famous First Chapters ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...") ("All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way...")
Fairy Tale Theater
Bedtime stories
The Secret Bookshelf: Garden party readings
Bedside readings
Writers Salon
Thematic, Literature-based Curriculum Sets
Distance Learning
Literature (great books, drama, poetry) History (Lit, original source) Language (foreign, ESL) Culture (movements, criticism) Writing (creative, essay -- voice, shape, editing) Psychology Philosophy
-- Creative Writing Personal Essays Publishing Theater The Writing Life Temperament & Intelligence Grammar & Usage (vocab, editing)
Famous Characters
The Summer Collection: Outdoor Adventure: Huckleberry Finn, Gulliver's Travels, The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
The Fall Collection: Change of Season (life changes & character change) Ordinary People, Personal Essays, Charlotte's Web, A Lesson Before Dying
The Winter Collection: Ghosts: A Christmas Carol, The Legend of Sleepyhollow, The Raven, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights
New England: Our Town, The Scarlet Letter, Emily Dickinson
Monsters: The Metamorphosis, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Illustrated Man
Psychology/mental illness: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, The Bell Jar, the Tell-Tale Heart, Ordinary People
Philosophy: The Stranger, No Exit
War: Hiroshima, Hemingway
California: The Grapes of Wrath/Of Mice and Men, Farewell to Manzanar, Gary Snyder,
Sci-Fi: Bradbury, A Wrinkle in Time, Herland, Childhood's End, Lem, Philip K. Dick, Stranger in a Strange Land, Earth Abides
Heores & Heroines:
Diaries: Anne Frank, Anais Nin,
Travel: Travels with Charley, On the Road,
The Writing Life: A Moveable Feast,
Aladdin--Arabian Nights
Themes: Adventure Utopia/Dystopia Sci-Fi Autobiography (personal journey--growth & change) The American Dream Cultural Change
Archetype & Identity:
Characters:
Adventurers
Monsters
Star-crossed lovers (Romeo & Juliet)
Idealisits (Don Quixote)
Crusaders (Joan d'Arc)
Loners
Saints
Survivors
Tragic Figures
"Iagos"
God/godesses
Villains
Newcomer
The Strange/different
Visionaries
BIO:
CA Teaching Credential: English, ESL MA: Creative Writing BA: Psychology
Playwright: ThinkPrank, Inc. Performance Art Troupe
Writing, handwriting, playwriting
Book List:
Huck Finn Great Gatsby Jane Eyre Wuthering Heights Pride & Prejudice Great Expectations Of Mice and Men Grapes of Wrath Hemingway The Jungle Animal Farm 1984 Fahrenheit 451 Brave New World Madame Bovary War and Peace Anna Karenina Uncle Tom's Cabin To Kill a Mockingbird The Awakening (Kate Chopin) The Handmaid's Tale Beloved The Scarlet Letter Langston Hughes (autobiog.) Auto. of Anne Frank
drama:
Shakespeare
Oscar Wilde
Arthur Miller
