Advanced Student Workshops

These two-hour Advanced classes for students Grades 5–10 will present the Structure & Style Units 4/6, 7, and Rhetoric using key word outlining and selected stylistic techniques.

Cost: Introductory Student workshops: $30.00/participant
(Save with the Early Registration price of $30 through September 27, 2018. After this date the regular registration price is $35.)
Teachers and parents may observe at no cost.

Grade levels are approximate. Class size is limited to 30 participants.

• Research Writing: Grades 5–10: 8:30 AM–11:00 AM
  Units 4 and 6: Students will learn the skill of choosing limited facts from multiple references; fusing their outlines, and applying selected stylistic techniques.
• Introduction to Rhetoric: Grades 5–10: 11:30 AM–2:00 PM
  Students will engage two of the ancient arts of rhetoric: encomium and invective. Learning the art of encomium, students find something to praise and praise it. Learning the art of invective, students find something to condemn and condemn it. As they work, students will also discuss other methods of persuasion and have the opportunity to use ethos, pathos, and logos in their writing.
• Inventive Writing: Grades 5–10: 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
  Unit 7: Students will learn to tackle the “blank page” by retrieving information from their brains, creating a key word outline, writing a multiple paragraph essay, and applying selected stylistic techniques.