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School Year 2019-20
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Prof. Fee: $0
Homework: no
Hours/Week: 0
Max/Min Students: 12/4
Grade Range: 8-12FY: ** This is a full-year course, with the expectation that students will continue for the entire year. **
** THIS CLASS WILL BE HELD AT CBC (HS) CAMPUS. **
Course Description: This course will build on prior skills and reinforce principles of essay writing with specific focus on using and citing primary sources as support. This course will take students through the entire essay writing process. Students will practice writing classification, compare/contrast, persuasive, and literary analysis essays in the standard 5-paragraph form.
Students will practice finding primary sources to substantiate their thesis, quoting, explaining and elaborating on those sources within the essay, and citing them properly.
The course will culminate with students completing a research paper. Class time will consist of journal prompts, modeling, lecture, writing practice, editing practice, and peer editing.
Course Expectations:
Students will be required to write rough drafts, revise drafts and write final drafts at home on a weekly basis using rubrics as a guide. Students are expected to complete all writing, research and homework assignments. This is a graded class with grades based on class participation, homework, and written essay requirements according to rubrics for each essay assignment.
Focus will be placed on practicing effective essay writing skills in smaller assignments, rather than in larger essay assignments. Students will be encouraged to focus on quality rather than quantity when incorporating skills and techniques. Larger essays will be broken down into bite-size chunks and take 4-5 weeks to complete.
Prerequisites:
Students must have already completed a middle school IEW class, Four Square, and/or demonstrate writing ability by submitting sample essay to teacher. Students should be able to express their ideas in writing, have a grasp of grammar and spelling, know how to format a paragraph, and be able to summarize. If a student has the basics of writing down, then they are ready to learn how to craft effective essays.
This class is considered a prerequisite to high school Literature and Composition classes.
Workload: Moderate. Each week students will be required to complete writing assignments.
Teacher Provides: handouts and rubrics resulting in course pack
Students Provide: 1-1.5” binder, dividers, lined paper, pencils, pen, access to Word programs highly recommended
Homework: 2-4 hours per week (1/2 hr – 1 hr per day for 4 days)
** This ID is assigned to classes not on the current class schedule. The codes and descriptions are available then to revive to offer again. **
Details:Class meets on Monday from 7:45 PM to 8:40 PM