Writing

Narrative Craft: Students deliberately use their knowledge of narrative craft to make their stories more thematic. Students write personal narratives, making purposeful choices about techniques, structures and language they use to convey their meaning. Students write memoirs that combine the narrative structures to convey significant insights and personal themes.

Lens of History: Students write through historical lenses and from primary sources, using multiple writing structures to build focused research projects. Students draw inspiration and understanding from mentor texts, historical accounts, primary source documents, maps, and timelines to write focused research reports that engage and teach readers.

Memoir: Students will write narratives to develop experiences or events by establishing a situation and introducing a narrator and/or characters, organizing an event sequence that unfolds naturally, and adding descriptive details,

Research Based Argumentative Essay: Students learn to build powerful arguments that convincingly balance evidence and analysis to persuade the readers to action. Students build powerful arguments using carefully-weighed evidence, analysis, and rebuttal of counter claims. Students write memoirs that combine essay and narrative structures to convey significant insights and personal themes. (Click HERE to see kids present their opinions at TED Talks)