Does your child receive enough writing practice during the summer months?  If not, this is a course that will provide a refresher on skills and strategies that are used in three genres of writing:  Explanatory, Persuasive, and Narrative texts.  This continuing education course will delve deeper into the strategies that will help your child become a polished and successful writer by focusing on and practicing different strategies for introductions, bodies, and closings of their essays. Each essay will consist of three written paragraphs.  Course content will be presented using PowerPoint Slides.  Make sure your child has written three-paragraph essays before. This class will operate with 3 students in it.  Feel free to invite your friends and relatives to enroll in this course. I will also offer this course in the fall months too.  THIS IS A 15-DAY COURSE.

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COURSE OBJECTIVES:
+ This course will be presented using a PowerPoint Presentation. 
+ Students will practice writing 3 types of essays: Explanatory, Persuasive, and Narrative.
+ Each type of essay will be practiced 5 times with a new or different topic each time.
+ MOST lessons will have an exemplar or a model essay to examine the structure.
+ Students will share their responses aloud upon completion.
+ I will provide a verbal critique of their finished draft if the students share it. 
+ Letter or Numerical grades are not given in this course. 
+ Students will and should document the strategies in their notebooks for continued perusal/reviewing.

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EXAMPLE STRATEGIES ADDRESSED FOR INTRODUCTIONS, BODIES, and CLOSINGS:
+ Imagery                                  + Reflection ending
+ Dialogue                                 + Funny ending
+ Key Word                              
+ Cause & Effect                      
+ Problem & Solution                
+ Compare & Contrast
+ Background 
+ Question
+ Scenario 

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COURSE AGENDA 
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THIS COURSE WILL MEET FOR 15 DAYS.

DAYS 1 - 5  - EXPLANATORY  Essays 
REVIEW:  Paragraph and Essay Elements (topic sentence, supporting details, and closing sentence)
EXAMINE Explanatory Exemplars while focusing on the above elements.
CONSTRUCT 5- three-paragraph cohesive essays when given an Explanatory writing task. 


DAYS 6 - 10  - PERSUASIVE  Essays 
REVIEW:  Paragraph and Essay Elements (topic sentence, supporting details, and closing sentence)
EXAMINE Persuasive  Exemplars while focusing on the above elements.
CONSTRUCT 5 three-paragraph cohesive essays when given a Persuasive writing task. 


DAYS 11 - 15  - NARRATIVE  Essays 
REVIEW:   Paragraph and Essay Elements (topic sentence, supporting details, and closing sentence)
EXAMINE Narrative Exemplars while focusing on the above elements.
CONSTRUCT  5 three-paragraph cohesive essays when given a Narrative writing task.
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