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HS Essay&Public Speaking

Add to Your Calendar: 09/11/2018 13:00 09/11/2018 14:30 America/Chicago HS Essay&Public Speaking HS Essay&Public Speaking Lighthouse @ Ridgewood Church Lighthouse Home School Support setxstep@gmail.com false mm/dd/yyyy aUinrLWZczwYavqgBmQP30959

Date – Time

September 11, 2018 – 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Location

Lighthouse @ Ridgewood Church
2920 Lake Arthur Dr.
Port Arthur, TX 77642 US
Room B1

Additional Information

 

WRITE FROM THE HEART....

High School Essay Intensive & Public Speaking

Let's unlock the tools for success!!

This writing and public speaking lab will be a 22 week intensive that will require class and home work. It should replace your writing assignments at home for the term of the class. It is recommended for students in 10th-12th grade, but may be appropriate for a younger student if he or she is a capable writer. This course will include a great deal of the IEW High School Essay Writing Intensive curriculum and videos, but will not be limited to that material. The IEW Speech Boot Camp intensive will be incorporated into the course along with numerous supplemental materials. The goal: to complete each type of essay that is a standard requirement for high school writing and transform it into a speaking opportunity. There will be topics assigned as well as chosen by students. We will end on an introduction to debate formats following our persuasive esssay. 

The endeavor will include:

Essay writing strategies: questions to ask, assignment length,paragraph and essay models, invention, outlines, style, sentence patterns, literary devices, practice with sentence openers and figures of speech.

Practice with various essay models: Expository, Descriptive, Persuasive, (Compare/Contrast if time allows,) planning, writing, effective vocabulary, proofing.

The Personal & Narrative Essay: adapting the essay and strategies for scholarships and applications

Each of the above compositions will be followed with practice in modifying the essay into note cards sufficient to employ in rendering the topic into a speech, which will be delivered to the class. We will spend several weeks on each model as an essay and a speech.

SAT/ACT: Practice from prompts and strategies for writing, planning and annotating.

Each meeting will include a minimum of 1/2 hour of lecture and/or video class time. Assignments will be worked on in class with the expectation that they will be completed at home along with at least one additional assignment each week. 

The course will include a minimum of one assignment each week, to be turned in the following week. Each composition will be evaluated and graded to include any suggestions for improvement that may be helpful. 

Class dates and time:

Ten Consecutive weeks of Tuesday afternoons beginning September 11 and finishing November 13 

followed by 12  consectutive weeks of Tuesday afternoons beginning January 15 and continuing to April 9, excluding March12

1:00pm-2:30 pm each week. 

Cost: $210  Lighthouse/CHSEL Members (Payable in 7 monthly payments of $30/mo.)

          $250   Non-members (Non-members will need to contact Lighthouse Administration to register.)

All participants will be required to submit a completed, signed waiver of liability and a medical release form along with payment prior to the first class day. (Forms may be downloaded and printed with the links below.)

From the teacher: I truly enjoy teaching writing. I love to see students learn that writing opens up opportunities and communication. I value the opportunity to give to them a tool that they can use for a lifetime. Having taught my own reluctant writers at home and having scrambled to find any curriculum that would help me know how to help my boys who hated writing learn the basic skills, I have discovered several ways that have proved beneficial. I have also found ways to excite and equip motivated writers. The testimony of Jesus Christ and His gospel is my motivation as I work with your students. If you allow me to use my education, experience and passion to work with your student, I will honor that trust with a full effort to encourage, equip and motivate him or her. 

Parent Responsibilities: 

It is necessary to have your child to each lab on time. Please understand that it is your and your child's responsibility to obtain any material from me if a class is missed. If more than one or two classes may be missed, it is not advisable to register for this class, since each week there will be lecture and assignments that will be difficult to make up. If a class is missed, the assigned work must be completed in order for the next class to be of significant benefit. 

I will be grading assignments each week and it takes a great deal of time. If your student does not use the marks and evaluations as we go, it will be a great waste. Please work with your student on correcting and re-writing whenever possible.

Supplies Needed:

3 ring binder with pockets

notebook paper

pen

Thesaurus, Dictionary and Bible (can be electronic or phone-based.)

Curriculum: Teacher Created/IEW/Writing Strands 

NOTE: This lab will require students to work on assignments at home. Parents are encouraged to reduce writing exercises at home to allow for the completion of the lab assignments. If students arrive unprepared repeatedly, we encourage parents and students to re-evaluate their participation in this lab. 

Lab Time 1:00 pm         Lab Cost: $210/yr. payalbe $30/mo. (7 mo. payment option.)

Signups

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The Signup Deadline for this event was 9/9/2018 – 12:00 AM CST

Email the Event Coordinator – setxstep@gmail.com