Essay Writing for Homeschool High School | Write From the Heart

This class focuses on helping students confidently create response essays for prompts around short stories, articles, or quotes.  These types of questions are found on standardized tests, college applications, high school classes, and college exams.  This class teaches your student how to answer them successfully.

With a focus on organization and rich development, attention will be given to all parts of an essay, including building a compelling introduction.  We will walk through the writing process from brainstorming to outlining to writing, with a focus on strong thesis statements and an engaged writing voice. These skills are utilized regularly in college classes.

The class is self-paced with multiple short assignments per week.  The teacher provides at least one video, written lesson material, and interactive assignments.  Plus the instructor gives personalized weekly feedback on every activity.  Essay feedback is detailed with an overview of how the student did on their organization, development, thesis statement, use of voice, and grammar.  

At Write from the Heart, your voice comes first.  We are all better writers when we have something to say.  We teach how structure, organization, and grammar help us effectively communicate who we are and what we believe through the written word.  It’s not about learning the rules.  It’s about discovering how we can use the tools of writing to most clearly express ourselves.

Our feedback is encouraging with suggestions for growth framed to help build the student's skills and self-confidence.

Overview of the class: 
> Brainstorming
> Thesis Statements
> Outlining & Organizing
> Responding to Fiction
> Responding to NonFiction
> Formulating a Response to Quotations
> Timed Essays

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