CHSEL Writing Essay &Public Speaking
This lab may not follow the EXACT Tuesday schedule of other CHSEL labs.
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This writing and public speaking enrichment opportunity will be a 28 week intensive that will require class and home work. It should replace writing assignments at home for the term of the class. It is recommended for students in 11th-12th grades, 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 practicum 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:Personal, Narrative, Expository, Descriptive, Persuasive, (Compare/Contrast if time allows or Short story analysis,) planning, writing, effective vocabulary, proofing.
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 members of the class. We will spend several weeks on each model as an essay and a speech.
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 journaling 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:
2:00pm-3:15 pm each week, with scheduled breaks according to CHSEL+ schedule until the first Tuesday in May, with the exception of January return, which will resume January 18, giving students time to read a novel, biography or autobiography with a film adaptation. Please insure your child has selected and is taking notes on a book/film adaptation pair during the extra week before returning.
Parent Responsibilities:
It is necessary for your child ro arrive in a timely manner each week. 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 considerable 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
Notecards
composition book
Thesaurus, Dictionary and Bible (may 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.