Have you ever read Harry Potter this deeply?

Why should you read deeply?

• Simple reading does not develop thinking skills.
• Upper elementary: It is time to transition from story-consuming reading to "critical reading and structural reading."

It is time to develop 'inference skills, evidence-based writing, and text analysis' abilities.

🎓 This Class Is Different in These Ways

A. Introduction of a Critical Reading Framework, Not Simple Plot Reading

Using the Language Arts reading method employed in high school and university level courses --> expanded to literary device analysis, character motivation inference, theme structure identification, and foreshadowing-symbolism reading.

B. Transforming Fiction into an 'Intellectual Training Tool'

Not story consumption, but training centered on developing thinking skills, inference, expression, and logical thought.

C. Adding Economic and Social Perspective Interpretations

With economics expert Teacher Diane, the class is conducted in a way that connects readings to real-world economic and social structures, such as social class and institutional contexts.

D. Structural Connection Between the Author's Life and Literary Devices

J. K. Rowling's life experiences --> interpreted through a literary research methodology to show how those experiences are causally reflected in the narrative and symbolic structure of Chapter 1, "The Boy Who Lived."

E. Benefits Beyond Class⚡️

• Dedicated dashboard provided
• Essay assignments (logical assignments / creative assignments) distributed alternately each session
• Individual feedback system
Not a simple book club but a learning achievement-based system in operation.

📖 How We Read and Discuss Together

I. Plot Key Summary (for comprehension check)

Not a child-level summary, but organized around conflict structure, worldview introduction, seeds of themes, and foreshadowing.

II. Discussion-style Questions

Theme-centered questions

• How are social perspectives on 'ordinariness' and 'extraordinariness' narrated?
• What kind of tension do contrasting relationships create?

Narrative structure questions

• Why did Rowling strongly establish the contrast between 'everyday life + magic' from the beginning?
• What is the most important foreshadowing planted in Chapter 1, and how is it realized in the later series?

III. In-depth Analysis of Literary Devices

Finding and explaining the following devices in actual text:
• Allegory, Allusion, Anagram, Analogy, Antithesis, Satire
• Tone, Mood, Foreshadowing, Symbolism, Irony, Characterization
• Narrative Distance, Focalization, Thematic Motif, and other advanced concepts

🌈 Brain-stimulating Discussion Activities

"If I found a baby at my doorstep?"

"What meaning does this symbol hold?" -- Comparing my thoughts vs. the author's perspective!

🧙Class Recommended For

• Learners who want genuine 'thinking skills training' beyond a simple book club
• Learners who want to develop English speaking and writing skills in an advanced school-style classroom environment
• Upper elementary learners who want to learn deep literary reading
• Learners who want to upgrade their speaking/writing skills through logical/creative thinking enhancement

☑️ A genuine critical thinking Language Arts class that examines literature from multiple perspectives.

Economics expert Teacher Diane graduated from American public elementary, middle, and high schools and majored in Business Management at California State University in Fullerton. She strengthens learners' thinking skills, inference, expression, and logical thought.

Please Check Before Registering for the Class

☑️ The class is conducted based on 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' which learners must read in advance. Each session involves in-depth exploration of one chapter at a time.

This class is not recommended for learners who have no interest in the Harry Potter world or fantasy stories, or who have not yet finished reading Book 1 or have great difficulty following the story.

A Class That Is Decidedly Different from an Ordinary Book Club!

Read Harry Potter 1 --Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

with economics expert Teacher Diane. Wherever you join from will become a school book club discussion venue.