This semester-long course will instruct students in the practice of close reading and address the three problems every writer faces: what to write about, how to order thought, and how to express persuasively and beautifully. Using fairy tales from Tales of Wonder Vol. 2, we will learn a method of highlighting and acquire skills for writing persuasive essays. We will cover roughly the first half of Lost Tools of Writing Level 1 while guiding the skills to help with thinking, organizing, and editing essays.