Practice the writing process (plan, draft, revise, and edit), and work towards producing polished writing about complex ideas.
Writing classes are small group seminars, taught by skilled writers, and balance direct instruction in writing with opportunities for creativity and self-expression.
Students write every day, meet individually with instructors, and receive detailed suggestions for improvement. Instructors write evaluations for each student at the end of the course.
Courses include standard language arts courses, creative writing courses, and courses emphasizing reading.
Read classic poems, fables, and stories, and write about themes, plots, and characters.
Write, share, discuss, and revise your own short stories, and publish your writing in a class anthology.
Write simple, compound, and complex sentences; learn notetaking; create outlines; and draft, revise, and edit well-organized paragraphs.
Read articles, essays, and stories, practice close reading and note-taking, and write summaries and interpretations.
Write, share, discuss, and revise your own personal narratives, short stories, plays, and poems.
Learn to write five-paragraph essays, the mainstay of writing across the middle school curriculum.
Write, share, discuss, and revise your own short stories, poems, articles, and personal essays about topics that are interesting to you.
Become a critical reader by reading opposing viewpoints about contemporary issues, practicing close reading, notetaking, and summarizing.
Become proficient at writing five-paragraph essays through developing sentence variety and practicing notetaking and outlining.
Improve upon sentence expansion, notetaking, single-paragraph outlines, the writing process, and multi-paragraph organization.
Write simple, compound, and complex sentences; learn notetaking; create outlines; and draft, revise, and edit well-organized paragraphs.
Learn to write five-paragraph essays, the mainstay of writing across the middle school curriculum.
Write, share, discuss, and revise your own short stories, poems, articles, and personal essays about topics that are interesting to you.
Become proficient at writing five-paragraph essays through developing sentence variety and practicing notetaking and outlining.
Improve upon sentence expansion, notetaking, single-paragraph outlines, the writing process, and multi-paragraph organization.