English: Writing Adventures, 2-Semester Course (Independent Use Student License)

Description

Part 1

This course focuses on writing as communication across history and culture. As such, this course compliments the World Literature course, and the writing skills and assignments parallel the readings in World Literature. Students in this course will think about and learn ways in which their writing communicates messages to the reader and the powerful influence they can have on others through their writing. In the first semester, the students will work on creative projects such as poetry and an oral history project that focuses on family history. This semester also gives the students the opportunity to hone their critical thinking and argumentative skills through the Persuasive Essay assignment.

Part 2

The writing assignments in the first part of the second semester will focus on providing students with the skills necessary to succeed in communicating their message in a more formal environment through the speech and business letter. They will learn how to use proper tone, language, style and grammar to communicate effectively in these important scenarios that will serve them throughout their lives. As students learn how to understand the needs of their readers, they will be more readily prepared to assist in spreading the message of the gospel to others. In the second half of the semester, students will take on cultural projects of their own in the Ethnography and Memoir assignments. Each of these assignments will give the students the opportunity to delve into the cultural experiences of others and to reflect on their own culture and life experiences. These assignments will help students acquire skills to help them communicate with and about others to the world now and in the future.

(1 Student License; includes 36 Lessons)