High School Writing

Writing / Grades 9-12 / Period 4 / KW / 1T

High School Writing (Grades 9-12)

This year, 2024-2025, our writing class for high school students, (recommended 50+ minutes of daily homework), will use as its main curriculum, The Lost Tools of Writing and will work to supplement what has been taught here at MCA from the IEW (The Institute for Excellence in Writing) program. This year students will now turn their focus to developing and outlining a paragraph to composing formal essays.

There will be weekly reading and writing assignments as we will be READING NOVELS as our source texts. From those novels, students will choose an issue about which to write, work through the thought processes necessary to consider both sides of their chosen issue, and ultimately write a persuasive essay to support their thesis.

Students will be orally presenting their essays about every three weeks.  We will work from the simple to the more complex, expanding vocabulary and sentence structures, with review of the IEW Stylistic elements. By the end of the year-long course, students will be equipped to write a well-structured five-paragraph, or longer, persuasive essay. This is a graded course. It is highly recommended that, to achieve the best results, students take all three trimesters of this course to fully develop the necessary skills for this type of writing.

Class Size: 8 minimum (No maximum)
Class Time: 12:30-1:20
Class Level: 9-12
Instructor: Kathy Williamson
Materials Fee: none
Class Code: KW 4

Materials and NOVELS to which students must have access, either by ownership or through your local library –

  • Knowledge of the Level C1 binder materials from IEW (The Institute for Excellence in Writing) program,
  • The Lost Tools of Writing Student Level 1Workbook, (one text per student) — to purchase: Visit circeinstitute.org ), black ink pens, lined paper, highlighters, access to a computer with word processing software, printer.
  • High School NOVELS used this year (many if not all should be readily available at your public library) – I only ask that you have access to these books when required in class for discussions. Your essays will be written about the characters and issues found in these books.

1st Trimester: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

2nd Trimester: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Born Again by Chuck Colson, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell.

3rd Trimester: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, and Through the Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliott

Student – $39

 

 

 

Student and Teacher set – $147 

 

 

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Writing / Grades 9-12 / Period 4 / KW / 1T

High School Writing (Grades 9-12)

This year, 2024-2025, our writing class for high school students, (recommended 50+ minutes of daily homework), will use as its main curriculum, The Lost Tools of Writing and will work to supplement what has been taught here at MCA from the IEW (The Institute for Excellence in Writing) program. This year students will now turn their focus to developing and outlining a paragraph to composing formal essays.

There will be weekly reading and writing assignments as we will be READING NOVELS as our source texts. From those novels, students will choose an issue about which to write, work through the thought processes necessary to consider both sides of their chosen issue, and ultimately write a persuasive essay to support their thesis.

Students will be orally presenting their essays about every three weeks.  We will work from the simple to the more complex, expanding vocabulary and sentence structures, with review of the IEW Stylistic elements. By the end of the year-long course, students will be equipped to write a well-structured five-paragraph, or longer, persuasive essay. This is a graded course. It is highly recommended that, to achieve the best results, students take all three trimesters of this course to fully develop the necessary skills for this type of writing.

Class Size: 8 minimum (No maximum)
Class Time: 12:30-1:20
Class Level: 9-12
Instructor: Kathy Williamson
Materials Fee: none
Class Code: KW 4

Materials and NOVELS to which students must have access, either by ownership or through your local library –

  • Knowledge of the Level C1 binder materials from IEW (The Institute for Excellence in Writing) program,
  • The Lost Tools of Writing Student Level 1Workbook, (one text per student) — to purchase: Visit circeinstitute.org ), black ink pens, lined paper, highlighters, access to a computer with word processing software, printer.
  • High School NOVELS used this year (many if not all should be readily available at your public library) – I only ask that you have access to these books when required in class for discussions. Your essays will be written about the characters and issues found in these books.

1st Trimester: The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

2nd Trimester: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Born Again by Chuck Colson, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and The Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell.

3rd Trimester: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, and Through the Gates of Splendor by Elisabeth Elliott

Student – $39

 

 

 

Student and Teacher set – $147 

 

 

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