I am offering intensive (and advanced) classes/workshops that consist of a 6-8 week cycle of essay-writing, reading, writing and thinking. To improve, students must set aside time for extra reading.
Dates: TBA: end October, November and December
Times: Sunday 11am and 2 pm
- For essay writing and vocabulary building: a selection of non-fiction articles from the newspaper on current issues (for essay writing and advanced comprehension). (See also my workbooks: Writing Better Essays and Techniques of Persuasion).
- For advanced comprehension: a variety of short novels, poems and short stories (Animal Farm and/or Lord of the Flies. Students are encouraged to purchase these novels; I do have class sets.)
- For advanced reasoning and persuasive techniques: we will also cover in-depth work on the Techniques of Persuasion and The Language of Persuasion: become an expert. Advanced reasoning skills; comprehension and essay writing.
- Advanced grammar: (a comprehensive knowledge of phrases and clauses): we will work through my workbook (with extra exercises): “Clear Writing: Language and Grammar”
Focus and tasks:
- build vocabulary and develop written expression and maturity (see vocabulary base) and see adjectives/descriptions
- practice weekly essay writing tasks on current issues (persuasive and creative) (newspaper texts etc.)
- develop persuasive and reasoning techniques (Red and Green Workbooks) and write discussions
- develop interpretation and text response skills (books: Animal Farm (first) Lord of the Flies (can see the film as well); (study as both as text response and thematic study in power)
- advanced comprehension tasks