Passing this along from Kate Brown, please email her at brownkate6@gmail.com if you are interested.
Writing classes offered in the Manchester area, grade 5 and up.
Sign up for all three classes and SAVE $30 per child!
(SAVE $45 each additional child)
Writing Explorer A
(Wednesdays, February 2 - March 9, 9:30-11:00am - Registration Due Jan 26) AND
(Wednesdays, March 23-April 27, 9:30-11:00am - Registration Due March 12)
Children are little researchers before they can even speak, continually searching for answers. In this class, they will be given the tools of organization to further satisfy this curiosity and learn to communicate their findings through writing. Students will be given a topic to research, locate information from various sources, take notes, and write paragraphs with topic and concluding sentences. These paragraphs will form five paragraph essays, which they will express through oral presentation to the class.
Writing Explorer B
(Wednesdays, May 4-June 8, 9:30-11:00am)
Registration Due: April 23
In this class, students will continue the process of organizing five-paragraph essays in a more defining way as they explore different types of essays such as comparison, cause and effect, example, process, and definition essays. Through practice, they will learn the steps necessary for gathering information, processing and organize it, as they use graphic organizers and outlines. Students will learn how edit their work, avoid plagiarism and finally, perform an oral presentation.
Writing Investigator
(Wednesdays, July 13-August 17, 9:30-11:00am)
Registration Due: June 29
Your child will review the writing tools previously learned in Writing Explorer A & B to become a literary detective, culminating what they’ve learned into a full-fledged research paper. They will narrow a topic, learn where to research for information, gather data, store, categorize, and analyze it and then learn to write with an organized flow by using well thought out transition sentences. Students will then share their acquired knowledge in an oral presentation to the class.
Prices for classes offered: | Cost for 1 student | Each additional student |
1 Class | $70 | $65 |
2 Classes | $130 | $120 |
3 Classes | $180 | $165 |
Materials Fee: $5, per student, per class
How To Pay:
· Non-refundable 30% deposit is due at registration; balance is due the first week of class. · Acceptable forms of payment are check and cash, no credit cards.
· Please make checks payable to Kate Brown and mail deposit to 18 Wedgewood Drive, Manchester, CT 06042.
· Contact Kate: (860) 268-1257 or brownkate6@gmail.com
Kate Brown is a home school graduate who began her teaching career teaching piano lessons throughout her high school years. She has earned her Bachelor’s Degree from Columbia International University receiving a double major in Elementary Education and Bible. She holds a teaching certification from the State of Connecticut for Grades K-6, and an Association of Christian Schools International certification for grades K-8. She has taught many grade levels in her three years teaching experience in the public school system. As an enthusiastic teacher, Kate is offering a series of expository writing classes to home schoolers to begin preparing them for high school and college research papers!
