Writing: Ancient History-Based Writing for Form 3

Experienced and IEW-trained instructor, Mrs. Emily Jones, will be teaching the class which will be a new section of our Ancient History-Based Writing class specifically geared for our Form 3 students.

Moving at a faster pace and with more advanced assignment extensions especially geared for Form 3 students (generally grades 7–9), this class will be ideal for students who might fall between Form 2 writing levels and the more advanced Essay & Creative Writing class. This class is also ideal for students who would benefit from review of essential writing structures and stylistic techniques to build a solid foundation for later high school composition.

Using popular, parent-approved, and widely-loved curriculum from the Institute for Excellence in Writing (IEW), this class will provide excellent preparation for more advanced BHSC composition courses.

Students will participate in activities aimed to inspire a love of words, sentences, and word-play. With the support of guided group discussion, brainstorming, and critique, students will learn to write with appropriate structure while enlivening their prose with stylistic flare.

Ancient historical characters, events, and stories will captivate students as they learn to write with structure and style. Students will take notes, summarize narrative stories, write from pictures, put together a research report on a historical person or event, and compose creative essays.

Over the course of the year, students will gain a growing awareness of sentence structure and grammar that goes hand-in-hand with their growing ability to amplify and manipulate the parts of a sentence. We will focus on developing vivid vocabulary and sentence variety in a range of compositions including both fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. As a class, students have the opportunity to participate in ongoing reading and typing challenges to develop skills and habits essential to competent communicators.

In addition to weekly class sessions, students should plan to spend another one to three hours each week completing assignments at home.