IEW - Travel Writing of the Southeast United States (4th-5th grades)
Live online Thursdays 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. MST
Dates: Sept. 5, 2020 – May 11, 2020
Instructor: Renee Metcalf
Course Description:
If you have learned all of the “IEW” dress-ups, sentence openers, and a few decorations, and want to focus on applying those stylistic techniques to writing mini-research, essays, and responding to literature, then this class is definitely for you! By beginning with Unit 4, students have ample time to practice and develop the skills of Units 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The focus of this course is practice of these more advanced units in non-fiction text.
Tuition: $45/month or $180/semester
Texts:
Travel Writing of the Southeast United States by Renee Metcalf
Student Resource Packet
Goals and Objectives:
Live online Thursdays 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. MST
Dates: Sept. 5, 2020 – May 11, 2020
Instructor: Renee Metcalf
Course Description:
If you have learned all of the “IEW” dress-ups, sentence openers, and a few decorations, and want to focus on applying those stylistic techniques to writing mini-research, essays, and responding to literature, then this class is definitely for you! By beginning with Unit 4, students have ample time to practice and develop the skills of Units 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The focus of this course is practice of these more advanced units in non-fiction text.
Tuition: $45/month or $180/semester
Texts:
Travel Writing of the Southeast United States by Renee Metcalf
Student Resource Packet
Goals and Objectives:
- Continue creating key word outlines and writing from notes.
- Write summaries synthesizing multiple sources.
- Learn to generate original content.
- Use TRIAC in writing advanced paragraphs.
- Learn how to determine the length a paper needs to be.
- Write about literature responding to a prompt.
- Write formal critiques.