Vanessa Priestner
Suggested Ages
14 - 18 years old
Pre-requisites
None
Registration Number
Min.:
4
Max.:
12
Required Texts
- The Lost Tools of Writing Student Workbook Level One (CiRCE; 5th Edition)
- Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (ISBN 978-1727082395)
- Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (ISBN 978-1435171640)
- Leave It to Psmith, by P.G. Wodehouse (ISBN 978-1684223039)
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte (ISBN 978-0486424491)
Year Long Course.
Cost: $75.00 Registration Fee (Non-Refundable), $647 (Billed through FACTS Management System)
In this class, students will consider actions taken by characters they will come to know and love in some of the best stories told by some of Britain’s best authors. Students will write about what was done and how, but they will spend most of their time contemplating why a character made a specific decision and whether that choice was a good choice. This will require them to read closely and think deeply. The Lost Tools of Writing gives students the tools to think and write well. They will learn questions to ask, ways to organize their thoughts, and rhetorical devices that will delight their readers even as they persuade their readers toward truth. New skills will be introduced each week, and students work toward mastery of those skills by practicing them throughout the course. They will be assigned weekly reading and pre-writing or essay homework and will make brief posts in class discussion threads. We will read portions of books in class and spend time conversing about these stories together. It is my hope that students will leave this class with a love of story and the ability to share with others the truths that exist in these tales.