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Writing & Grammar
introduction
- Prep-Y1 Early writers - Primary Arts of Languages Pre-2
- Year 2-4 Structure & Style for Students: Year 1 Level A 3-5
- Year 3-5 Structure and Style for Students: Year 2 Level A 4-6
- Year 6-7 Structure and Style for Students: Year 1 Level B 6-8
- Year 8-9 Structure and Style for Students: Year 2 Level B 7-9x
- Year 9-12 Structure and Style for Students: Year Level C 9-12
Writing: Unlocking the Writer Within Structure
- Note Making and Outlines: Laying the foundation with detailed notes and clear outlines.
- Writing from Notes: Transforming notes into coherent, polished writing.
- Retelling Narrative Stories: Capturing the essence of stories with personal flair.
- Summarizing a Reference: Distilling information into concise summaries.
- Writing from Pictures: Sparking creativity through visual storytelling.
- Summarizing Multiple References: Synthesizing diverse sources into a unified piece.
- Inventive Writing: Encouraging original thought and creative expression.
- Formal Essay Models: Crafting well-structured, compelling essays.
- Formal Critique: Developing critical thinking through detailed analysis.
Style
With the stylistic techniques, for examples, students enhance their writing by incorporating:
- Strong Verbs: Bringing action and clarity to their sentences
- Quality Adjectives: Adding depth and vivid imagery.
- Sentence Openers: Creating varied and engaging sentence structures.
Students progress from basic writing to a sophisticated style, building a robust vocabulary and mastering diverse sentence structures.
This writing course’s methods for teaching writing are akin to teaching music, art, or sports. Students start by analysing and imitating exemplary writing. Through incremental steps, they gradually develop the skills to craft their own original compositions.
Creative Writing
Creative Writing for the Logic Stage is a year-long course that meets once per week. We will be exploring different aspects and genres of creative writing through analysis of an assortment of readings and completing various writing exercises. Students will be exposed to the foundations of fiction and poetry. Creative Writing for the Logic Stage will cover the core elements of creative writing, and successful compositions in general.
Example Schedule
Students will have at least two kinds of assignments each week: a reading assignment and a writing assignment.
- Week 1: Fiction, Plot
- Week 2: Fiction, Plot
- Week 3: Fiction, Character
- Week 4: Fiction, Dialogue
- Week 5: Fiction, Observation
- Week 6: Fiction, Setting
- Week 7: Fiction, Point of View
- Week 8: Poetry, Introduction
- Week 9: Poetry, Description
- Week 10: Poetry, Getting the Words Right
- Week 11: Poetry, Getting the Words Right
- Week 12: Poetry, Sound
- Week 13: Original Writing
- Week 14: Original Writing
- Week 15: Original Writing
- Week 16: Original Writing
- Exam week: Performing Your Work