Mr. Lewandowski, I'm an IB teacher in Virginia and you've helped m so much. Your strategies to make thinking less abstract has helped my students. Have you done one on how to analyzing structure??
Thomas, I no longer teach IB Lit but I tutor it, and your videos are required viewing for my students. I want students to UNDERSTAND what they're doing, logically and plainly (not the latest "hack" to "beating the test" concept--that's for SATs). Keep it up. Also, have you considered a MM package of your videos plus some products you can post on Teachers Pay Teachers?
Also Thomas, do you have videos for Language and Lit? I know--I personally don't even like the course (too ambitious; a mile-wide & inch deep), but the school most of kids I tutor go to offers both, and so... Anyway, if you've taught it and have insights on NON-literary analysis and L&L exams, that would be amazing (I haven't found any L&L vids that meet the Lewandowski Standard TBH). Thanks!
I like the explanation - From theme to thesis, but confused. Theme =Thesis? I just registered to access Literary Analysis: Subject and Theme. I can see it. What do I need to do to find it. I want to become a fictional writer telling fictional stories. I am confused with the terms Theme vs Main idea vs Central Idea vs Thesis. Are they the same. If they are not, can I use or built all these terms into my fictional stories. I know thesis if for essays, but since you mentioned it here, I got interested. I can see you know what you are talking about... can you helllllpppp answering all these questions for clarification or pointing to the right video? Waiting for your reply, Gracias!
Thesis is used to describe the purpose or central claim of a work of nonfiction, usually an essay. If you are writing a work of interpretive analysis, your thesis is what you intend to prove with evidence and analysis. A thesis is usually something you need to persuade your audience to accept. Central idea or main idea is also associated with works of nonfiction, usually with more informational, less formal writing. Theme is something that readers interpret from reading the entirety of a work. If a work is focused on a particular subject, say childhood, it could be said that childhood is a subject in the work. This is different than theme. Theme takes things a step further to ask this question: what is the writer trying to communicate about childhood? Subject: what the work is about... Theme: what the writer is saying about what the work is about... Themes develop over the course of a work.
Themedar is just a goofy name for the never ending search for depth and relevance in literary texts. What have we found IN the text -- lessons / understandings / truths / emotional contexts -- that might add meaning, relevance, value to our actual lives OUTSIDE the text. Might be about time for part two of that video series....
Thank you for your efforts.. do you give online courses? Please let me know.. I really need to take online courses about analyzing literary works , could you recommend anything?
