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Excellent writing

In this 6 week writing class, students will work on perfecting their writing skills. The class will focus on expository writing. Students will be given prompts and we will develop writing skills.
Melissa Kendall
Average rating:
3.0
Number of reviews:
(2)
Class

What's included

12 live meetings
11 in-class hours
Grading
If students want to submit a final essay for a grade, that will be graded.

Class Experience

This course will focus on developing writing skills.  Topics covered will include:  developing a good topic sentence for a pragraph, paragraph writing development, thesis statement development, creating the body paragraphs,  and making a conclusion. 

There will be many opportunities for writing and receiving feedback for improvement.  

I enjoy student participation, so students get many opportunities to read their writing if they want to (but not mandatory), and lots of class discussion.
Learning Goals
Learning goals are for students to improve their expository writing through paragraph and essay development.
learning goal

Syllabus

12 Lessons
over 6 Weeks
Lesson 1:
Introduction
 Introduction to writing 
55 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Topic Sentences and Paragraphs
 Creating topic sentences for paragraphs and paragraph development. 
55 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
More paragraph fun
 Continuing paragraph development 
55 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
What is an essay?
 Looking at the parts of an essay 
55 mins online live lesson

Other Details

External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Joined December, 2018
3.0
2reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a highly experienced high school teacher.  My love is economics and government.  My specialty is AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, IB Economics and IB Theory of Knowledge.  Additionally, I am an expert writing teacher.  I have written AP Macro and Economics for the University of California Online High School.  I am also an examiner for the IB, and I write practice test questions for the Texas Starr Test.  I have worked for top schools throughout the world, both online and in person.

I graduated from U.C. Berkeley and started teaching in California, but went on an overseas adventure and taught in Dubai, Brussels, Jakarta and Mumbai, before landing back in the US.  After teaching in Texas and Florida, I took my craft overseas once again to Okinawa, Japan,  I am currently back in California to be closer to my family.

My fur babies are "kids" now:  two dogs I adopted in Indonesia and  a Japanese cat - they  have flown internationally multiple times.

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$75

weekly or $450 for 12 classes
2x per week, 6 weeks
55 min

Live video meetings
Ages: 14-18
2-10 learners per class

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