Middle School Narrative Writing

$199.00

This eight-week course focuses on narrative writing or storytelling. People love hearing and telling stories, so this course is a great starting place for young writers. It’s an enjoyable course that engages the student’s creative side, but it’s not just fun and games. Writing coaches use the varied assignments in this course to teach principles that apply to just about any kind of writing. In addition to a diagnostic assignment, students will write two narrative compositions in three drafts each under the guidance and instruction of their personal writing coach.

  • COURSE OBJECTIVES

    Students who complete this writing course will be able to…

    • write effective narrative papers.

    • respond to coach feedback on their writing through revising and proofreading.

    • understand and apply concepts like conflict, character development, plot, and point of view to their writing.

    • understand and apply the concept of showing rather than telling in their writing.

    • engage the writing process by employing the following five steps in composing every paper: prewriting, drafting, revising, proofreading, publishing.

    • improve their narrative writing across a wide range of broad evaluative areas, including content, style, and form.