As a homeschool mom and a teacher to homeschool students in small classes which met once a week, I soon discovered I wasn't satisfied with the material for homeschool language arts. Despite some of the award-winning curriculum out there, I kept changing the lesson plans and creating handouts. Eventually, I collated all of those handouts and started creating books. These books are the result of that work.
Dynamic Writing 1 includes 161 writing lessons for middle school students. Informal journal writing and formal writing assignments work alongside each other to grow each young writer’s skills.
Students will write over fifty journal entries, six book summaries, two descriptive essays, two narrative essays, five short fiction stories, a process essay, a news article, a super short biography, a short research report, two quatrains, a ballad, two timed essays, and a writing resume.
In addition to essay basics like thesis statements, introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions, students will also learn sentence variations and writing concepts like short sentences, similes, adverb sentence starters, prepositional phrase sentence starters, present participial phrase sentence starters, and more.
Notes for teachers and parents, as well as checklists and grade sheets are provided within the lessons, and an answer key may be found in the back of the book. With all of this, Dynamic Writing 1 is ready for use in the home or in a small classroom. The lessons may be used in one school year, or over the course of two school years.
Creativity is nurtured in education. In this curriculum, students have required topic areas, but they also have choices within each assigned writing style. In each assignment, students are required to meet specific, objective standards, but they are also given creative choice of the bulk of content they write. This nurture their creativity.
With 155 lessons in writing assignments, Dynamic Writing 2 gives students the opportunity to explore various forms or writing, including journal writing, formal emails, business letters, letters to the editor, literary analysis, comparison essays, contrast essays, poetry, description, definition essays, biography research essays, timed essays, narrative essays, and short stories. Each of these styles of writing benefits students and helps them grow in their writing skills, helping them understand the powerful impact of word choice and structure.
Notes for teachers are included throughout the book and within the glossary section.
Creativity is nurtured in education. In this curriculum, students have required topic areas, but they also have choices within each assigned writing style. In each assignment, students are required to meet specific, objective standards, but they are also given creative choice of the bulk of content they write. This nurture their creativity.
With 155 lessons in writing assignments, Dynamic Writing 2 gives students the opportunity to explore various forms or writing, including journal writing, formal emails, business letters, letters to the editor, literary analysis, comparison essays, contrast essays, poetry, description, definition essays, biography research essays, timed essays, narrative essays, and short stories. Each of these styles of writing benefits students and helps them grow in their writing skills, helping them understand the powerful impact of word choice and structure.
Notes for teachers are included throughout the book and within the glossary sectio
With 155 lessons in writing assignments, Dynamic Writing 2 gives students the opportunity to explore various forms or writing, including journal writing, formal emails, business letters, letters to the editor, literary analysis, comparison essays, contrast essays, poetry, description, definition essays, biography research essays, timed essays, narrative essays, and short stories. Each of these styles of writing benefits students and helps them grow in their writing skills, helping them understand the powerful impact of word choice and structure.
Notes for teachers are included throughout the book and within the glossary sectio
An important piece of the methodology in this book is daily practice.“Nulla dies sine line”—"Not a day without a line drawn," is a quote attributed to Apelles des Cos, a famous Greek painter from 4th Century B.C., but I believe that this quote applies to modern day writers, as well as artists. Daily practice is essential to any skill, and is especially important to writing. This curriculum is designed to create daily writing habits. Journaling may be informal, but it helps give writers a place to play with words on a daily basis. Journaling mixed with formal writing assignments helps a writer develop their voice and style, and then put those into practice within their formal writing assignments. Due to the time constraints of students and their need to study multiple subjects, the assignments given to students are based on a single writing session a day, in either formal or informal writing.
Writing assignments included in Dynamic Writing 3 include creative memoirs, formal emails, timed essays, narrative essays, short fiction, literary analysis, modern poetry, book reviews, classification essays, persuasive essays, speech writing, college application essays, research essays, resumes, and business letters.
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