Bluebonnet Home Scholars Collaborative

Flower Forth

Writing: Modern World History-Based Writing Lessons, Form 2

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Description:

The world is at your fingertips! This theme-based writing curriculum allows students to experience world history through cultural literature and the study of famous people and events while learning to write with structure and style. Working through all of IEW’s Units 1–9, students learn to take notes, retell narrative stories, summarize references, write from pictures, compose essays, and more.

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. We will focus on developing vivid vocabulary and sentence variety in a range of compositions including both fiction and non-fiction.

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

Materials:

Families will need to purchase the following curricular materials before the start of class:

Families will also need to secure the following supplies before the start of class: (Linked brands are suggestions.)

  • Pens, black ink, 2 or more
  • Pencils, 3 or more, pre-sharpened and ready to use
  • Colored pencils, erasable, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, and brown
  • Erasers
  • Dedicated 3-ring notebook binder with tab dividers (binder will be used exclusively for Writing class)
  • Three-hole punch and stapler (kept at home; used by students to prepare assignments for submission)
  • Dictionary & Thesaurus—for home use. Consider apps such as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus.
  • Recommended/Optional: Reinforcing stickers for strengthening/repairing holes in notebook paper and handouts

Students will also need to be able to type, print, and email assignments using a sharable word processing program such as Microsoft Word.