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Class Information
Availability
We offer multiple times throughout the week. Please let us know what you prefer.
Description
Material Included
- Our online weekly lesson plans
Requirements
- Assigned Textbooks
- Assigned Literature books (can be ebooks, physical or audible)
- Computer
- Internet
- Video Camera and Mic
- optional Electronic Drawing Tablet with Pen
Text Books include
- The Art of Argument
- Henley Latin 1 purple and Blue book
- Latin workbook
- The Lost Tools of Writing
- The rest are all online research sources that will be provided
Literature Books
- The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe
- The Inquisitor's Tale
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Cripin
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Number the Stars
- Oliver Twist
- The Secret Garden
Students will learn - Research, Exposition, Reasoning, Logic, Writing, Grammar, and Debate.
Students will work independently on coursework part of the week and will one day a week engage in classroom conversations with peers, raising questions and reasoning their way through complex equations. Students will focus on Latin, emphasizing the memorization of vocabulary, declensions and conjugations. They will practice the art of persuasive writing through the study of literature, considering both sides of an issue through a "should question" related to the action of a character from their assigned reading. With Step by step instruction students will learn to craft persuasive essays.