Tell Me about Your Life as a Trapeze Artist: Interview into Narrative Essay
Interviewing someone is an incredible way to experience real, living history. Learn how to interview someone and then write it into a narrative essay.
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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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Change Nouns to Verbs for Clear Writing
Ever wonder why some writing is so confusing? Most likely they’ve choked their verbs and turned them into nouns. Make your writing clear with vivid verbs.
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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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A Moving Description?
Aren’t descriptions those boring parts you always skip reading? Learn how to use movement in your descriptions to engage your readers and make it interesting.
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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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Gather Around the Campfire . . . or the TV
HIGH SCHOOL PROMPTS Gathering around the campfire as a family or with your friends in the summer at camp or during the crisp fall days can be fun. Whether you’re singing or roasting marshmallows for s’mores, it’s a unique experience. Gathering around the TV to watch a movie or show with your family or friends…
