Writing Strands: Intermediate 2: Focuses on Skills Such as Organization, Narration, and Argumentation.

Students will learn to establish a clear voice in writing, create valid effective arguments, understand how authors make readers feel emotion, and communicate clearly through fiction narratives and business writing.

Topics addressed in this one-year course include:

Identifying and creating attitudes in narrative voice

Recognizing the points of an argument and writing a successful argument

Developing a narrative voice for fiction writing

Punctuating dialogue and creating speech patterns for characters

Organizing a description by seeing objects as groups of parts

Writing concise, insightful business letters.

A suggested schedule is provided, as well as worksheets that are three-hole punched and perforated, and the addition of a reading and literature component helps students look more deeply into the Bible and other books they select.