The purpose of this course is to provide students with additional opportunities to improve their writing skills in the four areas of academic writing (descriptive, persuasive, expository, and narrative).
Over the course of this program, each area of academic writing will be examined and practiced with a culminating writing activity at the end of each unit. Each lesson will include writing warm-ups (vocabulary practice, writing drills, grammar review, writing on demand) followed by a targeted lesson and guided independent writing to prepare for the culminating assignment. Each assignment will be assessed on a scale of 1-4 using a writing rubric and each student will get extensive constructive feedback on all written assignments.
Course Details:
Unit 1 - Topic Descriptive Writing (weeks1-4)
- using writing techniques so that the description is clear in a way that the readers would be able to imagine what it looks like
Culminating Task
Unit 2 - Topic Persuasive Writing (weeks5-8)
- writing to try to convince orpersuade a reader of an opinion or belief
Culminating Task
Unit3 - Topic Expository Writing (Weeks 9-12)
- writing to try to inform andconvey factual information
Culminating Task
Unit 4 - Narrative Writing (13-16)
- writing to tell a story
Culminating Task
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