FALL: September to August

• Grades: 10, 12

• Instructor: Kim Gaines-Baran B.A., MA. (SFU) ~PhD Exam (UBC)

• Workshop Schedule: One workshop a week

• Workshop Format: ZOOM and email

These workshop classes will develop student's basic writing skills enabling them to improve their in-class English, and Social Studies written work. Also, they will create the writing foundation for students to progress to the Graduate Literacy Examinations. Each two-hour workshop will begin with a one-hour lecture on brainstorming, the analytical, persuasive, and expository essays, as well as reading and summary. Each lecture will explore essay structure, topic sentence development, and paragraph unity, as well as sentence structures and grammar.

Then, students will be given a one-hour tutorial designed to critique their writing strategies. During these tutorials, the instructor will review the student's written work, and give correction and suggestions. At the end of class, writing and grammar homework will be assigned. All homework will be graded and returned to the students.