Description Level/Grade: Level 4 / 9th–12th Registration Closes: 8/22/2025 Classes Start: 9/9/2025 Length: 5 Weeks Day: Tuesdays Time: 12:30pm-1:30pm Teacher: Claire Sakelson Materials: Novel and Workbook included During this 5-week session, teachers will support students as they journal characters, themes, symbols, and motifs, explore vocabulary, discuss ideas, receive feedback on the weekly synopsis and personal reflection, and the culminating essay. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways.
