Haroun and the Sea of Stories lesson 1

I mentioned in my previous blog post of how I was suddenly thrust into reading this story to teach

So in a couple of days I've had to get the analyses and themes ready for class. It's even harder because the book can't be found in local bookstores (Gee, aren't we a literate state...)

With all lessons, I still feel it's my duty to explain more about literature than simply talking incessantly about one book, I say this with some prejudices, since my student really doesn't like it (it's evident in the recording, just wait a few minutes and her griping starts)

Ergo, I planned on starting the lesson by explaining "storytelling", which is essentially what the book is about. It's all one neat cycle. Anyway, that meant looking at what the Hero's Journey is. I did research on archetypal characters but the look on my student's face told me I couldn't go on to that.

As I repeated over and over, which you will hear, it's hard to teach a book if you don't like it 😖

Also, I'll be reviewing the book soon. Watch out for that. Still deciding on what to write 🙂🙃🙂🙃

So we're going to tackle this book by summarising each section of a chapter, along with analysing that, themes, even inferring the characters' traits

Let's listen to chapter 1 and a bit of chapter 2

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PS_8q9F9l3arF7G3HVl4wOIiFPPn15Am/view?usp=drivesdk

Credits to the original designer of the photo. It's brilliant.

Animal Farm and literary devices Lessons 1-3

Though this would be my second time teaching the spectacular tale that is Animal Farm, it still hasn't dulled the enormity that it took to come up with such a masterpiece. I can see why adults in their 40s-50s I know who studied this in their teens and still remember it

We looked at the characters, those who really impact the story; as well as chapters 1-4

Lesson 1

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yQN9y7ReMuS4D43pSsVKlY9aWAARDI9k/view?usp=drivesdk

Lesson 2

With an understanding of English literary devices

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hXF963P8bz7P4PJziJD_z-aJUH4TEWaU/view?usp=drivesdk

Lesson 3

Same for this too

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h-Q5pu2PYCw84h8nE3458qd5MxV3iSTP/view?usp=drivesdk

My (Thorough) Edits to "The Man With A Mission"

My edits are on this post: snapshots of edits, queries, comments, concerns
I didn't leave anything out as the main proofreader
It was meaningful to work on this project because the author had just passed away so his wife, and my colleague, wanted to continue his story; you will see a change of writing style near the end
This was the second book I worked on but I wanted to post this as an example of me as a book editor.

Every page was printed, I read and edited during all my free time (even as I travelled on public transport or was eating dinner); and I copied my changes to the word document, which again took up time but that was fine with me. You can't edit a book without having a physical copy to hang on to. 
  
Because most of the books I dealt with were nonfiction autobiographies, there was a story to gleam and I wouldn't have to be bored by facts - there were a lot of them though. Honestly he wasn't a storyteller, and some parts made me laugh, but I still had to get used to the tone he used. 

It was a long project. I really wanted to show my dedication, and I felt that I did. I even got a copy of the final piece when it was published. I concurrently worked on helping the publicity team for another new launch.