Passing this along from Kate Brown........
Writing classes offered in the Manchester/South Windsor area, grade 4 and up!
-Classes taught by Kate Brown, home school graduate and CT certified teacher-
Writing Explorer A
Fridays, March 25 – April 29, 2:45-4:30,
Tuesdays, March 22 – April 26, 2:45-4:30
Registration Due: March 19
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
Tuesdays, May 3 = June 7
12:45-2:30 (grades 7-10) and 2:45-4:30 (grades 5-7)
Registration Due: April 23
(Tentative: Fridays, May 6 – June 10, 1:00-2:45)
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
(Write a Research Paper!)
Tuesdays, July 19 – August 23, 1:30-3:15
Registration Due: July 8
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.
Book Report I
Fridays, March 25 – April 29
12:45-2:30
Registration Due: March 19
Students will take the beneficial activity of reading and extend it further as they become closely acquainted with the characters, the setting, the plot, and the climax. Students will get a chance to delve more deeply into their imagination as they put these story elements together and learn to summarize and form opinions, both in written form and through an oral presentation of their choice.
--Class Details--
All classes are six weeks, 1 hour, 45 minutes per class
Class fee: $75 per child (with 30% deposit at registration), $6 materials fee per child, per class
Contact by email: brownkate6@gmail.com or phone: (860) 268-1257
Please make checks payable to Kate Brown; send to 18 Wedgewood Drive, Manchester, CT 06042
A little about the teacher: 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 homeschoolers to begin preparing them for high school and college research papers!
