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Cost: $120/semester
Class Description:
Before you can become a good writer, you must become a good thinker! Welcome to the Lost Tools of Writing! In this class, students will combine literature, critical thinking, and writing skills as they learn to master the art of the persuasive essay. They will also learn how to organize their thoughts into outlines, add stylistic techniques that make their writing interesting, and format papers properly. While the persuasive essay is the focus of this class, these skills will easily translate into other writing tasks.
Students will read high-quality novels, such as The Hiding Place, Where the Red Fern Grows, and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Then they’ll use issues the characters face in these books to write essays detailing whether or not a character should have made a particular choice. We’ll learn how to write a good thesis statement, support it with proofs and sub-proofs, consider counter-theses, and who these issues would apply to in the wider world, plus so much more.
By the end of the year, students who use the Lost Tools of Writing will not only be better writers, but better thinkers who are able to consider the claims and actions of others in a critical, thoughtful, reasoned way.
This is a two-semester course, and will not be open for new students in the second semester.
Homework: Students will complete various assignments at home each week. These will vary in length and complexity but should generally take 30 minutes or less a day to complete.
This course is is eligible for HS credit. The instructor will collect and grade student assignments and assign grades.
Grades: 7th-12th graders
Instructors: Liz Richardson
Time: 11:00-11:50am
Required materials: The Lost Tools of Writing, Student edition, notebook, pencil or pen
Teacher contact info: liz@warrenchurchofchrist.org
Cost: $120/semester
Class Description:
Before you can become a good writer, you must become a good thinker! Welcome to the Lost Tools of Writing! In this class, students will combine literature, critical thinking, and writing skills as they learn to master the art of the persuasive essay. They will also learn how to organize their thoughts into outlines, add stylistic techniques that make their writing interesting, and format papers properly. While the persuasive essay is the focus of this class, these skills will easily translate into other writing tasks.
Students will read high-quality novels, such as The Hiding Place, Where the Red Fern Grows, and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Then they’ll use issues the characters face in these books to write essays detailing whether or not a character should have made a particular choice. We’ll learn how to write a good thesis statement, support it with proofs and sub-proofs, consider counter-theses, and who these issues would apply to in the wider world, plus so much more.
By the end of the year, students who use the Lost Tools of Writing will not only be better writers, but better thinkers who are able to consider the claims and actions of others in a critical, thoughtful, reasoned way.
This is a two-semester course, and will not be open for new students in the second semester.
Homework: Students will complete various assignments at home each week. These will vary in length and complexity but should generally take 30 minutes or less a day to complete.
This course is is eligible for HS credit. The instructor will collect and grade student assignments and assign grades.
Grades: 7th-12th graders
Instructors: Liz Richardson
Time: 11:00-11:50am
Required materials: The Lost Tools of Writing, Student edition, notebook, pencil or pen
Teacher contact info: liz@warrenchurchofchrist.org