Writing Summaries Courses
Writing Summaries 1 – Ancient History
Writing Summaries 1 includes 28 lessons that cover the foundational elements of factual writing using four sources about topics from Ancient History. The course will take approximately 7 weeks to complete.*
Skills
Topic sentences, concluding sentences, outlining, narrating, drafting, self-editing, revising, sentence style and variety, strong verbs, quality adjectives, meaningful adverbs, functional clauses and phrases, terrific titles, sentence variety, grammar, punctuation, and much more.
Syllabus Choices (Approximate dates)
469BC Socrates
404BC Lysander
384BC Demosthenes
356BC Alexander the Great
44AD Death of Caeser
60AD Boadicea 79AD Pompeii
100AD Ptolemy
394AD Alaric the Visigoth
450AD Attila the Hun
900AD Viking Ships
1040AD King Magnus the Good
1094AD El Cid
Age Level/Prerequisite
Great for Ages 10 and up with prior experience of Writing Basics Fables/Folktales or Writing Foundations I.
Cost
$250 (Credit card payments accepted)
Register
Follow the Registration Link to the left.
Shortly after receiving confirmation, you will receive a slew of emails from Ms. B. about top-secret documents to download, how to set up a notebook, how to submit assignments, how to keep track of scores, and your student’s very first lesson about banned words.
Writing Summaries 2 – Middle Ages
Writing Summaries 2 includes 28 lessons that cover the foundational elements of factual writing using four sources about topics from Middle Ages History. The course will take approximately 7 weeks to complete.*
Skills
Topic sentences, concluding sentences, outlining, narrating, drafting, self-editing, revising, sentence style and variety, strong verbs, quality adjectives, meaningful adverbs, functional clauses and phrases, terrific titles, sentence variety, grammar, punctuation, and much more.
Syllabus Choices (Approximate dates)
1212 The Children’s Crusade
1152 King Frederick Barbarossa
1212 The Children’s Crusade
1350 The Black Death
1350 Edward the Black Prince
1413 King Henry V
1420 Joan of Arc
1450 Gutenberg
1483 Martin Luther
1567 Sir Francis Drake
1585 East India Company
1690 Pirates!
1741 The Bering Strait
1780 Robespierre
1800 Napoleon/Reign of Terror
Age Level/Prerequisite
Great for Ages 10 and up with prior experience of Writing Basics Fables/Folktales or Writing Foundations I.
Cost
$250 (Credit card payments accepted)
Register
Follow the Registration Link to the left.
Shortly after receiving confirmation, you will receive a slew of emails from Ms. B. about top-secret documents to download, how to set up a notebook, how to submit assignments, how to keep track of scores, and your student’s very first lesson about banned words.
Writing Summaries 3 – American History
Writing Summaries 3 includes 28 lessons that cover the foundational elements of factual writing using four sources about topics from American History. The course will take approximately 7 weeks to complete.*
Skills
Topic sentences, concluding sentences, outlining, narrating, drafting, self-editing, revising, sentence style and variety, strong verbs, quality adjectives, meaningful adverbs, functional clauses and phrases, terrific titles, sentence variety, grammar, punctuation, and much more.
Syllabus Choices (Approximate dates)
1539 Hernando De Soto
1600 Pocahontas
1692 Salem Witchcraft
1700 William Penn
1700 Traveling by Stagecoach
1742 The Battle of Bloody Marsh
1750 Blackbeard the Pirate
1770 Benedict Arnold
1770 Daniel Boone
1776 Nathan Hale
1777 Molly Pitcher
1777 Lydia Darrah
1777 Elizabeth Zane
1812 Old Ironsides
1835 Morse and the Telegraph
1836 The Alamo
1840 Charles Goodyear
1850 Andrew Carnegie
1850 General Lee
1850 Stonewall Jackson
1855 Underground Railroad
1858 First Atlantic Cable
1860 Abraham Lincoln
1865 Clara Barton
1915 Lusitania
1918 Frank Luke, Jr. (Aviator)
1918 Sergeant York
Age Level/Prerequisite
Great for Ages 10 and up with prior experience of Writing Basics Fables/Folktales or Writing Foundations I.
Cost
$250 (Credit card payments accepted)
Register
Follow the Registration Link to the left.
Shortly after receiving confirmation, you will receive a slew of emails from Ms. B. about top-secret documents to download, how to set up a notebook, how to submit assignments, how to keep track of scores, and your student’s very first lesson about banned words.
*Time for course completion is estimated on an average of 4 submitted lessons per week, Monday through Friday. Each student’s progression may vary. Student has up to one year to complete the course.