7 Powerful Ways to Revitalize a Worn-out Writing Class
Is your writing class running out of steam? Use these seven proven, powerful ways to revitalize your class and get your students writing again. Full steam ahead!
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Grading Essays Made Easy #2: Point Orders
Learn to grade your middle school or high school homeschool student’s essays with these practical videos from Writing with Sharon Watson. This video’s focus is point orders, with the subject matter of trash pulling them all together. Come join the fun!
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Noah: Devoted or Demented?
Take a look at the recent Noah movie and others, whether religious movies or not, and compare them with the values and truths found in the Bible. Where are they similar? Where are they different? Write a compare-and-contrast movie review.
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Empathetic Characters: The Author Molds Your Child’s Heart
SHARON’S BLOG I recently witnessed this conversation between a teen and his mother: . …“The main character divorced his wife and married another woman,” the teen announced after he read his book… .“That’s not good,” his mother said. …“But he had to, Mom. His wife was really awful! She treated him really badly.” The son…
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Grading Essays Made Easy #1: Paragraphs in the Body
SHARON’S BLOG Your child has just handed you a completed essay, and you are ecstatic . . . until you realize you now have to grade it. Where do you begin? How do you evaluate this marvelous gift? Grading Essays Welcome to this exciting, first-in-a-series blog about grading your middle and high school students’ essays!…
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3 Myths about Literature That Will Ruin Your Class
Choosing a literature program for your teens isn’t the easiest thing in the world, and neither are actually having the class and getting them to read the books. Making these tasks even harder, I’ve found, is that homeschool moms and co-op teachers often have some ideas about literature that sabotage all their good efforts.
Read the rest of this article to see if you have avoided believing these three myths about homeschool literature.
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The Enumerative Essay: Parking Spaces and Baseball
Enumerative essays, or partitive essays, begin with the number of parts (“There are nine ways to get to first safely”), and then each part becomes a paragraph in the body. The first paragraph in the body can explain how a hitter can whack the ball and get to first before anyone on the opposing team can catch the ball and throw it to first. The next paragraph can be about getting the hitter to first on a walk, and so forth.
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3 Best Proofreading Tips for Homeschool Writers
SHARON’S BLOG Proofreading is painful for students. They feel they’re through with the writing process when they write their first draft and then want nothing more to do with that essay. Students tell me that writing the first draft and proofreading it is like writing their paper twice. . However, the skill of proofreading their…
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Three Ways to Get Your Children Writing Again
Some kids hate writing essays, and off the top of their heads they can give you 97 reasons why this is so. When I teach my writing course locally, some students are bound to come to the first class with a “don’t even bother trying to teach me” attitude. They believe they are so far gone that they are unteachable.
I disagree.
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Literature: Why Your Teens Won’t Read It and What You Can Do about It
SHARON’S BLOG Literature might seem like one of those courses in which pulling teeth is involved. You assign a poem, play, short story, or novel to read, and you immediately encounter resistance. It’s hard, they say. It’s boring, they complain. The lawyer in them tries to make a deal with you: “I’ll read these more…
