Stop, It's the Grammar Police!-- Grammar 201 Made Fun

If one wants to be a writer or an editor, or even if they just want to write papers that don't make their English teachers burst into tears, they need to master grammar. Grammar is not an easy subject (yes, I'm a professional, but I still need to look things up once in a while) and it's often made more difficult because practicing it is so boring. 

A lot of kids find studying language arts  to be boring as heck. Not in this class! In this class, 

students will use (and create) real-life examples to practice the skills of grammar, punctuation, and style. Together we will improve our writing and editing skills using classic rules in an up to date context. 

Over the next eight weeks, we will cover the following topics:

Week One: Commas and apostrophes. What, exactly, is an Oxford comma? Which answer is it, is it its or it's? It's its, if it's possessive.
Week Two: Colons, semi-colons, and dashes --- when do we use them? 
Week Three: Pronouns and participial phrases. Speaking of pronouns, do you use he/him, she/her, or they/them?
Week Four: Paragraphs. A quick review of the paragraph, the key to the essays you will have throughout high school and college.
Week Five: Active vs. Passive Voice: Do you have the voice, or does the voice have you? 
Week Six: Word Choice: There/their/they're, to/two/too, whether the weather, which witch is which? 
Week Seven: Tenses. When you're going to go where you are going, but you've already gone where you went. 
Week Eight: Punctuation, Editing, and Review. Is there such a thing as too much punctuation???????? There is!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here  we shred the worksheets and toss out the dull repetition in favor of imagination. Using a variety of sources, such as music, drama and literature, games, and interpersonal creativity, we will explore how grammar and punctuation help us communicate with one another.