Teacher Name: Sylvia Bobier

Teacher Email: sylmac77@gmail.com

Tuition: $240 per year Payable in monthly installments of $30

Deposit: $30 (due at registration)

Supply/Materials Fee: $5 (due at registration)

Digital Payment Address: Venmo @Sylvia-Bobier

Class Description:

“Students explore fascinating aspects of the ancient world while learning to write using the ‘Structure and Style’ writing method! Ancient literature and a wide variety of other noteworthy topics will supply a rich foundation for imaginative and enjoyable writing. Students will work through IEW Units 1-9 as they learn to take notes, retell narrative stories, summarize references, write from pictures, summarize multiple references, write essays, and compose formal critiques.” (description from publisher)

We will read through a different source text each week, go over any unfamiliar vocabulary, and create an outline together in class. Students will use their outline to formulate their own sentences and paragraphs at home, using a checklist with specific guidelines. Writing assignments will be collected the following week and returned the week thereafter.

Teacher Name: Ann Rodman

Teacher Email: annrodman@gmail.com

Tuition:  $240 per year Payable in monthly installments of $30

Deposit: $30 (due at registration)

Supply/Materials Fee: $15 (due at registration)

Digital Payment Address: Venmo @Ann-Rodman-1

Class Description:

In this course, students will learn writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking.

During the first half of the school year, students will learn about the form of fables, discover culturally important examples, practice reading short texts, learn to copy accurately, strengthen their memory through dictation, gain opportunities to imitate sentences & fables, learn about the concepts of the main idea/character traits, and more.

The second-semester students will be exposed to parables, myths, and other tales to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well. Lessons focus on beginning/middle/end; written and oral narration; longer writing assignments; the main idea; conflict; adding dialogue and description; writing given stories; and more.

Using books 1 & 2 of Classical Academic Press’s “Writing and Rhetoric” curriculum, students will learn:Narration/telling it back (creating a natural sense of outline/sequence)Analogy—learning how this story is like/different from other storiesComprehensionSentence play/word playRewriting (gaining a sense of internal structure of a piece of writing)SummaryAmplificationSpeak It—experiencing the story from your own mouth (orally) with an audience for a different point of contact, often with some sort of change than the first time you heard it.Beginning, middle, endWritten narration as well as oralLonger writing assignments or corollary assignments, changing the order of the storyMain ideaConflict (middle)Adding dialogue to the amplification (and description)Rewriting given stories.

Teacher Name: Seth Riley

Teacher Email: sethlriley@gmail.com

Tuition: $200 per year payable in monthly installments of $25

Deposit: $25 (due at registration)

Supply/Materials Fee: $10 (due at registration)

Digital Payment Address: Venmo @Annaleah-Riley

Class Description:

Join us as we delve into the world of literature. Throughout the class, we will tackle a variety of fiction and creative non-fiction titles and discuss the broader concerns of the ongoing literary conversation. Students will also have the opportunity to write their own stories. The class will consist of readings, lectures, discussions, and writing workshops. Homework each week will include reading and writing assignments.

Teacher Name: Brittany Underwood

Teacher Email: brittunderwood87@gmail.com

Tuition:  $200 per year Payable in monthly installments of $25

Deposit: $25 (due at registration)

Supply/Materials Fee: $20 (due at registration)

Digital Payment Address: Venmo @BrittanyKevinUnderwood

Class Description:

Word Builders: Future Readers Under Construction!

Join our team of word builders to participate in fun, engaging, and differentiated centers that help students master the skills needed to become proficient readers.

2024-2025 Future Projects: word sorts, phonics, sight words, rhyming, word families, word stamping, and more!