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Our Language Arts classes are live, two times per week, all-year long.
Teacher: Celeste Guthrie (Read more about her biography here)
Course Description
The grade 6/7 Language Arts course will focus on fostering a love of language while gaining the knowledge and skills needed to write with detail, structure and clarity. The class will include instruction for: various types of writing, reading comprehension, reasoning, vocabulary expansion, literary techniques, grammar, and oral expression. Students will be guided to strengthen their organization of ideas, communication skills, and writing mechanics.
The grade 8/9 Language Arts course will focus on fostering a love of language while building on the language skills developed in earlier grades and emphasizing more complex forms of writing and critical thinking. The class will include instruction for: essay writing, creative writing, research, reasoning, vocabulary expansion, grammar, literary techniques, note taking, and oral expression. Students will be guided to strengthen their organization of ideas, communication skills, personal writing style, and writing mechanics.
The grade 10-12 Language Arts course will build on the language skills developed in earlier grades, emphasizing more complex forms of writing and critical thinking, while developing confidence in student’s ability to articulate thoughts and feelings. The class will include instruction for: various types of essay writing, creative writing, grammar, literary techniques, analysis, reasoning, debating, vocabulary expansion, note taking, and oral expression. Students will be guided to strengthen their organization of ideas, writing mechanics, ability for objective observations, and personal writing style.
More details about our Language Arts courses.
- Year-Long Courses. All of our Language Arts courses meet for the entire year, for a total of 32 weeks. These courses follow the same Academy calendar for vacations. The first day of classes are Wednesday, September 4.
- Two times per week – Live! The instructor meets live with the students (via Zoom) two times per week. Each meeting lasts 55 minutes.
- Class Times. Classes meet (live via Zoom) at the following times (all times are MT):
- 6th/7th: Monday and Wednesday at 12:15-1:10 pm MT
- 8th/9th: Monday and Wednesday at 3:00-3:55pm MT or Tuesday and Thursday at 10:45-11:40am MT
- 10th/12th: Monday and Wednesday at 1:45-2:40pm MT
- Not Recorded. The live sessions with the students are not recorded
- Assignments. Students should expect to do some reading and writing work between classes.
- No Group Meetings. There are no extra student group meetings beyond the two live sessions per week.
- Course Reports. We will provide a course report at the end of the course.
- Tuition. The tuition for the course is $972 per year ($108 per month). Payments are made monthly (see the Academy Calendar for the start dates of each quarter).
- Financial Assistance. We have limited funds for offering financial assistance to families. You can fill out our financial assistance form to request this. This form must be submitted and approved before you enroll (both registration and payment).
Course Materials:
Fall Semester:
6th/7th: Hatchet by Gary Paulsen
8th/9th: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
10th-12th: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexis
Spring Semester:
6th/7th: The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
8th/9th: The Giver by Lois Lowry
10th-12th: 1984 by George Orwell
Students will need a letter sized (8.5″ x 11″) notebook (lined or blank) for writing in each class.
