Course info

\Help your student craft excellent sentences and paragraphs in writing practice through learning and using critical middle school must-haves for writing well — and gain understanding with practice in this hands-on writing course that goes beyond “normal” writing courses with practical writing using critical thinking (no workbooks). Take the 6/7-3 course with this course to gain a full semester’s credit of writing.

 

 

Note: This course, a continuation of the Writing Essentials series for 6/7 students. This is a two-part course; take the Essentials 3 and 4 courses together, for one full semester of credit (12 weeks of classes).   How to get the most out of the Writing Essentials 4: Excellent Sentence and Paragraph Writing II course Read the course details below. Prepare a notebook for notetaking and homework. Students -- be sure to take notes during class! Students, begin the course by: LIVE CLASS Students - Coming to the first live Class session on the scheduled date and time. Unlimited Access / Recorded Students - Clicking on the "Recording" and watching Professor Brown’s lecture for Class One. Review any supplemental materials (videos or readings) Complete the Quiz(zes). The computer will automatically grade the quiz. Students will review with a parent. *Note* If taking the course in Recorded format, the quiz will reset if someone else in the family takes it, so make sure the grade is recorded by a parent. If you need review, watch the recording and/or go over the PowerPoint again. Repeat until all 6 classes are complete. Once the course is completed to the parent's satisfaction, there is a Certificate of Completion at the end of this page (to be filled in for your records). Homeschool Connections does not provide record keeping

   

Total Classes: 6

Prerequisite: Each course in the 6/7 series builds upon the next. Registration in the Writing Essentials 1: Punctuation & Grammar I (MS 6/7-1), Writing Essentials 2: Excellent Sentence & Paragraph Writing I (MS 6/7-2), and Writing Essentials 3: Punctuation and Grammar II (MS 6/7-3) courses is required so that your student has all of the tools and knowledge necessary to succeed in this course. You may take the prerequisite courses LIVE or in Unlimited Access (recording) before or during this course.

Suggested Grade Level: 7th or accelerated 6th grade

Suggested Credit: ½ semester Writing or English. Precede with MS 6/7-3 for a full semester credit.

 

Instructor: Bonnie Donlon

Instructor Email: bdonlon@homeschoolconnections.com

 

Course Description: This essential writing course continues to give your student the skills for how to create well-crafted sentences and paragraphs using specific nouns, strong verbs, appropriate adjectives and adverbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, and compound sentence structures. This course specifically sets your student up for success in crafting longer writing (paragraphs and beyond). Special emphasis is placed on using words correctly in systems of testing such as standardized tests and the student's ability to identify improper word choice while making critical corrections in thinking and writing.

 

Course Outline:

• Class 1: Identifying and building on specific nouns and strong verbs in sentences
• Class 2: Identifying and building on appropriate adjectives and adverbs in sentences
• Class 3: Identifying and correctly using prepositions, prepositional phrases, and compound sentence structures within sentences and paragraphs
• Class 4: How to easily identify incorrect usage in standardized tests
• Class 5: Creating paragraphs with strong transitions and connectives
• Class 6: Critical know-how for writing multi-paragraph essays

   

Course Materials: Course materials are provided free of charge. Microsoft Word or the ability to convert a document to a Word-compatible document is required. If you do not own Microsoft Word, you can use a system such as Google Docs and convert to Word documents FREE.

 

Homework: This course uses an estimated one to three hours per week for homework outside of class time, depending on the student's abilities entering the course. Homework includes readings, activities, and writing assignments that get your student thinking critically and using the content learned while writing/composing. All writing assignments are graded by the instructor.