High School Essay & Reports

High School Essay and Research Report Workshop

Plus Research Report

Let's unlock the tools for success!!

This class will require rigorous class and home work. It should replace your English composition writing assignments at home for the term of the class. It is recommended for students in 11th-12th grade, but may be appropriate for a younger student if he or she is a capable writer. This class picks up where IEW Level C leaves off, with students already familiar with essay and report structure, but needing practice and repetition. This course will include a great deal of the IEW High School Essay and C Continuation Writing Intensive curriculum and videos as well as a number of other resources for essays and reasearch report material.  It will also include at least one, possibly two, visits to the John Gray Library on Lamar University Campus and will include a group tour and writing guidelines from the library coordinator there.

Students will be required to use the online CHSEL class dashboard for assignments and submissions as well as to obtain resources. A PC or laptap as well as printer will be necessary for assignment completion.

This two-semester week 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, Critique planning, writing, effective vocabulary, proofing.

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

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

The Research Report: questions to ask, assignment length, discovering topics, researching and narrowing topics, organizing information, outlining for the extended and super essays, library use, how to use sources, annotating, bibliography, works cited, effective vocabulary, and more.

Each meeting will include a minimum of 1 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. Assignments and syllabus are contingent upon student progress and understanding and may require modifications as class progresses. 

There will be two dates in the regular CHSEL Tuesday schedule that we will not meet. These dates will be announced at the start of the year. 

From the teacher: I truly enjoy teaching writing. I love to see students learn that writing opens up opportunities in communication and develops critical thinking. 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 to help them. 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 class 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.)