Description Level/Grade: Level 4 / 9th–12th Registration Closes: 2/20/2026 Classes Start: 3/10/2026 (Spring Break 4/6-4/10) Length: 5 Weeks Day: Tuesdays Time: 12:30pm – 1:30pm PST 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. Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming the English Channel. Her daring eventually led her to the Bering Strait, where she swam five miles in thirty-eight-degree water in just a swimsuit, cap, and goggles. In between those accomplishments, she became the first to swim the Strait of Magellan, narrowly escaped a shark attack off the Cape of Good Hope and was cheered across the twenty-mile Cook Strait of New Zealand by dolphins. She even swam a mile in the Antarctic.
