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Adventures in Writing - American Time Travel


This exciting course will explore the Adventure of Writing by traveling through time in American History! This course will be a writing course from the perspective of history; and we will learn to write by reading the best American writers of all time! We will read short selections from stories, essays, news reports and speeches throughout American History - incorporating examples from the various cultures and races that have made up the American Experience. Also, students will both work and play with all kinds of writing by means of fun and engaging weekly exercises. We will learn proper syntax, grammar, punctuation, sentence and paragraph structure – and we will do so by writing book reports, essays, news articles, mystery stories, comedy sketches, letters, poetry and even superhero and fantasy tales! In addition, literary devices, outlining, brainstorming, vocabulary building and spelling will be part of the process of learning how to be better writers – the kind of writers that readers of all sorts want to read! This will be a fun and challenging two-semester course, and one that will give young people a solid foundation of writing skills that they will build upon in high school, college and beyond - and will also give a great overview of American History and Literature!


Fall 2025 and Spring 2026 at the following time ...


  • Tuesdays, 10:00 am Pacific; 11:00 am Mountain; Noon Central; 1:00 pm Eastern


Age Range: 6th and 7th grade.

Offered through Carrier Shell Curriculum,

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