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Ready to Write: Essay Skills Writing Workshop

Completed by 11 learners
Ages 11-15
Live Group Class
In this ongoing course, students will focus on one specific writing skill each week to improve their academic writing.
Average rating:
4.8
Number of reviews:
(360 reviews)

Live video meetings
1x per week
3-8 learners per class
25 min

What's included

1 live meeting
25 mins in-class hours per week

Class Experience

US Grade 6 - 9
In this ongoing class, students will focus on isolated skills to improve their academic writing. The skills can help students with persuasive and expository essays, as well as literature analysis and research papers. As an ongoing class, students may choose which weeks to attend based on the skills they want to improve. 

Class Schedule: 

Week of Nov. 2 -- Brainstorming
Week of Nov. 9 -- Thesis Statements
Week of Nov. 16 -- Introductions
Week of Nov. 23 -- No Class (Thanksgiving)
Week of Dec. 7 -- Conclusions
Week of Dec. 14 -- Topic Sentences and Body Paragraphs
Week of Dec. 21 -- Plagiarism and In-text Citations
Week of Dec. 28 -- No Class (Winter Break)
Week of Jan. 4  -- Finding Academic Sources and Works Cited Pages
Week of Jan. 11 -- Word Choice
Week of Jan. 18 -- Counter-arguments
Week of Jan. 25 -- Sentence Fluency
Week of Feb. 1 -- Conventions

During each class, students will follow along with a Nearpod presentation to learn about the day's skill, followed by a series of discussions and evaluations of textual examples from sample essay prompts. Half of the class will focus on lecture and discussion, and the other half of the class will give students the opportunity to practice using the skill in their own writing. 

Photo Credit: [Image by Ulrike Leone from Pixabay]

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Parental Guidance
Some classes will use Nearpod to complete writing assignments and/or review class materials, but Nearpod does not require students to create an account. Students will be asked to enter their first name only when entering the website so that assignments can be tracked by the teacher (content remains anonymous to other students).
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Meet the teacher

Joined May, 2020
4.8
360reviews
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Teacher expertise and credentials
I have a Juris Doctor from the S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah; a Master of Arts in Secondary Education from the University of Phoenix; and a Bachelor of Arts in English from Brigham Young University. I taught high school English for eight years (with endorsements in English and Reading), and I currently teach ESL online. I am also a former prosecuting attorney, and I currently practice law in several different areas. 

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