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Writing About Ancient History Using IEW Curriculum (Part 2)

Completed by 32 learners
Ages 10-14
Live Group Course
Continue refining writing skills, using the Ancient history thematic writing curriculum from the Institute of Excellence in Writing (IEW), learning to write different formats including academic essay writing around Ancient times.
Average rating:
5.0
Number of reviews:
(547 reviews)
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Live video meetings
1x per week, 10 weeks
3-10 learners per class
50 min

What's included

10 live meetings
8 hrs 20 mins in-class hours
Homework
4+ hours per week. Homework is required and is assigned after each class to incorporate both the writing method and style (dress-ups). I encourage students to go through a process given in class as they complete their homework, and then they will submit their final papers to me. I will return papers with both positive and constructive feedback, not a letter grade. Students will be writing from a checklist, so students and parents will know exactly what is required for each assignment. Vocabulary and literature suggestions will be given so students can use these to connect to their writing.
Grading
Students will have access to a checklist each week which will be used for feedback and evaluation.

Class Experience

US Grade 4 - 7
Beginner - Intermediate Level
As we continue our journey through Ancient times in this Part 2 class, our writing is going to gain even more description as we focus on summarizing multiple references (as we do with research),  Inventive Writing, Critiques, and Formal Essays.  Our focus will be on the lessons introducing new stylistic techniques and/or methods.

Each of these writing structures will be developed using material from the student book, relating to topics in ancient history.

Because this curriculum is sequential and builds upon structure, you will already need experience with the first 5 units of IEW methods because we will not be spending time going back to those initial units.  In this class, we will cover final 4 units for the IEW methods.

As we write, students will be experimenting with even more "dress-ups", sentence openers, and figurative language, to add style and interest to their topics.   These will all be outlined in the weekly assignments.

During class, we will use discussion, modeling, games, and other learning techniques to reinforce vocabulary and style, while expanding our writing skills.

Students MUST have prior experience with Units 1-5 of IEW and/or have completed my first class on Writing About Ancient Times (Part 1).  There is a lot of writing as we delve into writing 5 paragraph essays.

Learning Goals

Focus on parts of an essay and essay writing.

Syllabus

Curriculum
Follows Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW) Curriculum
10 Lessons
over 10 Weeks
Lesson 1:
Pentre Ifan
 This lesson will focus on summarizing from multiple resources and creating fused outlines to use for paragraphs. 
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 2:
Pompeii Part 1
 This lesson will focus on summarizing multiple topics from multiple resources while also learning about using short sentence openers. 
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 3:
Pompeii Part 2
 This lesson focuses on summarizing multiple topics from multiple sources and developing a works consulted/bibliography page. 
50 mins online live lesson
Lesson 4:
Water
 This lesson will focus on inventive writing as we learn about creating body paragraphs while learning about adding clauses as a decorative technique. 
50 mins online live lesson

Other Details

Parental Guidance
All topics will be taught from a secular context. You can view a scope and sequence of the curriculum here under "Sample" to see some topics: https://iew.com/shop/products/coming-soon-ancient-history-based-writing-lessons-student-book-only
Supply List
Due to copyright, students will need to purchase their own copy of the book "Ancient History Based Writing Lessons".  This book is approximately $29 and is the resource they will be using for class and homework assignments.  The book can be found many places online, in addition to the IEW website linked below.  Please be sure to also take a look at the sample provided on the link and let me know if you have any questions. ***This is the 5th edition - no other editions will be compatible with class lessons.

https://iew.com/shop/products/ancient-history-based-writing-lessons-student-book-only
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Sources
Attached is a link to the student book we will be using in class: https://iew.com/shop/products/coming-soon-ancient-history-based-writing-lessons-student-book-only. Please note this is the 6th edition of the book published in December of 2020. The class is not compatible with other editions of the book.

Meet the teacher

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Teacher expertise and credentials
California Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
Idaho Teaching Certificate in Elementary Education
Master's Degree in Education from Chapman University
I am an IEW Registered Instructor and have taught several IEW-related courses over the past 7 years in person and online through Outschool since 2018. I enjoy sharing in the enthusiasm of writing using the IEW method.

Reviews

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