Fangirl Lesson Plan

What are the biggest challenges Cath faces in the second semester of school?

Students should think about why Cath initially wanted to drop out of school and move home, and also why she eventually went back. Pay special attention to the language she uses in the first part of this section, where she says that she didn’t “choose” to go back. What is the source of her anxieties this time? There are several unresolved tensions left over from the first semester: her feelings for Levi and her upset over “the kiss,” as well as her incomplete grade in Fiction-Writing and her attachment to writing fan fiction instead of original fiction. In order to overcome these challenges, Cath...