Medieval History-Based Writing (6th-8th grades)

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Aug. 27, 2020 -May 13, 2021 
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Instructor:  Renee Metcalf

Course Description:
This writing course continues to develop students’ writing skills using IEW’s stylistic techniques and the nine units of structure.  While learning more advanced writing techniques, students learn about key events and famous people of the Middle Ages.  Inspired by the captivating tales of the Vikings, Charlemagne, castles, knighthood, and a variety of geniuses of the Renaissance, writers create imaginative texts of their own!  After much practice with stylistic techniques, students learn to write two 5 paragraph essays based on their research and to join them together into a well-organized 12 paragraph essay!
 
Tuition:  $59/month OR $212/semester

Texts:
Medieval History-Based Writing, 5th edition (Jan. 2019) by Lori Verstegen                           
ISBN:  978-1-62341-311-8
Student Resource Notebook
thesaurus

Goals and Objectives:
  • Learn about famous people and events from Medieval history.
  • Create outlines and take notes suitable to the type of writing structure.
  • Organize writing and use stylistic techniques to give it flair.
  • Use advanced writing techniques and decorations.
  • Write a comparison/contrast essay.
  • Learn and include new vocabulary.
  • Write a variety of types of papers:  summaries, formal reports, creative writing, and narrative stories and critiques.
  • Conduct research and properly document sources MLA-style.
  • Learn to self-edit and revise.
  • Write a lengthy “super essay.”