This class is to learn fundamentals of English Language Arts specially focusing on writing. This class is best suited for students 9-12 years old and will give the learners time and opportunity in class to write by answering prompts, following model texts, and guided by different genres. Students will be writing using activities such as picture prompts, story starters, group storytelling, Nearpod lessons, presentation slides, worksheets, and breakout room partnerships.


July 5, 2024 Grammar Lesson (Apostrophes) + Imagine your perfect day
July 12, 2024 Grammar Lesson + A magical creature: Invent a new magical creature
July 19, 2024 Grammar Lesson + Travel to Another Planet
July 26, 2024 Grammar Lesson + If I Were a Superhero

August 2, 2024 Grammar Lesson + The Mystery: a mysterious object found in your backyard
August 9, 2024 Grammar Lesson + The Travel Adventure: If you could travel back in time to any period in history
August 16, 2024 Grammar Lesson + Dream Vacation; dream vacation destination
August 23, 2024 Grammar Lesson + Letter Writing: Write a letter to your future self
August 30, 2024 Grammar Lesson + If I Lived in a Treehouse



Feb. 1, 2024: Vocab/Language: Synonyms, Pros + Cons generating ideas
Feb. 15, 2024: Character Development: Character Profile
Feb. 22, 2024: Structure: First-Day Fly - article by Jason Reynolds
February 29, 2024: Grammar Lesson + What Would You Do If..... 
March 7, 2024: Grammar Lesson + What Would You Do If.....
March 14, 2024: Grammar Lesson + Write about a character with at least three big problems
March 21, 2024  Grammar Lesson +  If your brain were a tangible, physical place, what would it be like?
March 28, 2024: Grammar Lesson + List five careers. Write about someone with one of those careers who wants to quit it.
April 4, 2024: Grammar Lesson + Come up with 10 different ways to: say hello/order a pizza/apologise
April 11, 2024: Grammar Lesson + Random Renaissance Paintings and explanations of the image
April 18, 2024: Grammar Lesson + Write starting with a word that sounds like "chute" (e.g. "chute," "shoot," "shooed")
April 25/May 3, 2024: Grammar Lesson +  Write about a character (or group of characters) trying to convince another character to try something they're scared of.

May 10, 2024: Grammar Lesson + if you were throwing a big party, what would the theme be?
May 17, 2024:  Grammar Lesson + If you had a miniature version of an animal living on your shoulder at all times, 
May 24, 2024: Grammar Lesson + what would it be and what would you name it?
May 31, 2024: Grammar Lesson + Write about your birth story.
June 7, 2024: Grammar Lesson + What is your favorite animal and why?
June 14, 2024: Grammar Lesson + Tell a story about your family’s favorite meal to make at home.
June 21, 2024: Grammar Lesson + If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
June 28, 2024: Grammar Lesson + How would you describe yourself in 3 words?


Sample Prompts:
What would you do if...
1. If you were at the Square and forgot where you had arranged to meet
your friend.
2. If you dropped a glass of water on the floor.
3. If you arrived home from school and there was nobody at home.
4. If you got lost.
5. If you won $100.
6. If your money was stolen.
7. If you couldn't find your clothes after swimming.
8. If you couldn't do your homework.
9. If you were accused in the wrong.
10.If your baby brother/sister went missing.
11.If your house was burgled.
12.If you got soaked on the way to school.
13.If your T.V was broken.
14.If you woke up in the year 1916.
15.If you were in town and saw a robbery.
16.If your house got burned.
17.If you had no milk for breakfast.
18.If you saw a mouse in the kitchen.
19.If the baby scribbled on your library book.
20.If a stranger offered you a lift.


What do you want to be when you grow up?
If you could time travel, what time and place would you go to?
What would you do with a million dollars?
If you were stranded on an island, what is the one thing you couldn’t live without?