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WRITING CLASSES ON VIDEO AND ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS THAT CAN COME TO YOUR LOCATION! High School Composition: Really, it's like drinking water from a firehose. Your high school student will gain enough knowledge, tools and experience to compose essays for high school, college entrance exams, college courses, and beyond. Your student will do the following at this workshop. *Develop pre-writing skills by using essay-specific graphic organizers. *Gain experience writing theses and conclusions.*Develop body paragraphs by incorporating supporting data.*Compose various stages of six kinds of essays (process, cause-effect, compare-contrast, editorial, problem-solution, and argumentation). *Review grammar, syntax, and sentence variation for more powerful writing. *Create opportunities to incorporate college-level vocabulary words into conversation and writing. *Analyze excerpts from essays written by former High School Composition students. *Become familiar with MLA formatting. *Adopt a strategy for taking timed essay tests. *Earn a .5 to 1.0 transcript credit at home. Power Writing (grades 4-8) For students who are reluctant writers (maybe even despise writing!) What IS the point of learning it anyway? Need motivation and tools to become confident, independent writers! (through middle school, high school, and beyond) What is Power Writing? Power Writing is a sequential process that begins with a word, then moves to phrases, then to sentences, then to paragraphs, and finally to multi-paragraph essays. Power Writing's numerical structure provides the basis for all forms of writing. Power Writing solves the writers frequent problem of how to say it and in what order. POWER 1 - Focus the main idea, topic sentence, or thesis statement. POWER 2 - Major supporting ideas (about the Power 1). POWER 3 - Details, elaboration, examples (about the Power 2). POWER 0 - Add voice or extra information. Go to PowerHouseEdu.com for more information.