US History or World History Writing Workshop

This is a History writing workshop for students who want to add research and writing into their existing History studies. Since some state homeschool regulations require a specific number of hours or other criteria, parents may be looking to add research and writing time into their student's year. I offer writing prompts and feedback for both US History and World History. This course pairs with my US History, World History I, and World History II courses, however it will also work well for students who are using their own curriculum at home or taking other online History courses. 

Class meets for only 15 minutes each week because students will do the bulk of their research and writing work outside of class. The first class will simply be a chance for me to meet students and find out what part of history they are studying so that I know what types of prompts to give them throughout the semester. After that each class will be a chance for me to give prompts out, check in with students on their work, give feedback to students, accept finished papers, and more. Students will be responsible for doing research and writing on their own time. 

Students will be given at least four prompts over the course of the 14-week class. Two of those prompts will be short and quick and require less research. One prompt will be a longer paper and will require a good bit of research but students will be given longer to complete this paper. Our final prompt will be for a research project where students will create and present a short presentation to the rest of the class. All prompts will be specific to the eras of history that the student is studying during that time. Though we only meet for 15 minutes a week, I will be in contact with students throughout the week to return graded papers, offer feedback, answer any questions they have, and more. I will also have office hours during which I am able to meet with students in the Outschool classroom should they need additional help. 

Due to the time required outside of class to grade student papers, this class might only be offered once throughout the semester. If you cannot make it to that class time, don't worry! I will post the video each week and students who cannot attend the class time can watch the video to receive their paper prompts. I will also be posting all prompts on the classroom wall. Students will receive the same feedback regardless of if they can attend the weekly class or not. 

**Please note: my main goal is to give students a chance to learn more about the time period, get students used to researching and understand how to answer a prompt, it is not to make sure that their papers are grammatically correct. Therefore, I am giving feedback on the research itself and not the grammar or format. I do require that students show their sources, but I do not require an MLA formatted Works Cited page. I will check for plagiarism, however, and will address that with the student and give them a chance to rewrite the paper in their own words if plagiarism is found.