AlsoHigh School Writing Bundle 2: Intermediate Guide to High School Writing covers Essays, Research Papers, Poetry and Short Stories with no-busywork!
Teenagers need a writing curriculum in high school that builds on basic skills and moves them toward true proficiency by including rich creative writing, powerful essays, and carefully crafted research papers.
This is a full year downloadable .pdf writing curriculum for the growing writer (10th grade students and others with some experience but not a lot of confidence – Click here to see if our Introductory Guide to High School Writing would be the best place for your student to start.).
This 4-part writing curriculum for high school includes:
- Intermediate Guide to High School Poetry Writing
- Also, Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing
- And, Intermediate Guide to High School Short Story Writing
- Also, MLA Research Paper Guide
(See the descriptions of each e-text below.)
By purchasing this “bundled” etext, you save money and have all of your writing curriculum in one handy file for on-screen use or to print if you prefer.
Click here to view an excerpt from Intermediate Guide to High School Writing.
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Intermediate Guide to High School Poetry Writing
Don’t overlook poetry writing in your homeschooling high schooler’s curriculum. Poetry teaches concise and creative use of words and thoughts- an absolutely necessary life skill! Christian homeschoolers who learn to use words well can feel confident as God calls them to any area of work or service.
For the homeschooler with a little poetry writing experience, Intermediate Guide to High School Poetry Writing is an enjoyable way to introduce your homeschooler to the power and fun of words.
Creativity is waiting to be uncovered with 7Sisters poetry writing high school curriculum!
This 45-page downloadable pdf workbook, is easy to use so a student could follow the process even if he or she does not have a teacher who is experienced in writing poetry.The guide is written to be used over a six-week period. This e-text is written in a friendly manner, conversational in tone, and can be used independently or with a co-op.
Topics covered include:
- Introduction to poetry
- Idioms and Tom Swifts
- Shape poems
- Haiku
- Stanzas
- Basic rhyme patterns
- Basic meters
- Free verse
Poetry is intimidating for many students and to some homeschooling parents as well, but poetic language and expression become accessible and fun with poetry writing curriculum guides. Explore poetry and give your homeschooling teen an opportunity for fun and growth in word power!
Click here to view an excerpt from Intermediate Guide to High School Poetry Writing.
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Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing
High School essay writing is a critical part of a teen’s academic experience, but for many students the process is frustrating. It doesn’t need to be!
High school students can write essays using a no-busywork curriculum that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and persuasive argument, and have FUN writing essays!
Great essay-writing skills can give homeschooling high schoolers great tools for life after high school. A Christian teen (whether headed to college or not) will benefit in knowing how to capture his/her thoughts, stay on topic, and express ideas powerfully. College bound homeschoolers need strong essay writing skills in order to present well on the SATs, ACTs, and college admission essays.
Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing, is a 10-week, curriculum to help your writer (who has some essay-writing experience) learn the fundamentals of writing a cohesive essay and edit it well.
Topics include:
- Persuasive essays
- Compare/contrast essays
- Literary analysis
- Editorial/letter to the editor
- SAT essays
The downloadable pdf e-text also includes sample rubrics and editing checklists.
Presented in a user-friendly format, this guide is designed for independent learning or for use in learning co-ops. Packed with practical information, it includes NO busywork.
Click here to view an excerpt from Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing.
Even reluctant writers can build a strong skill set for essay-writing with a curriculum that breaks the process into manageable steps and doesn’t waste their time with busywork. The logical thinking process behind a well-written essay is not intuitive to most kids; Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing presents the process in a friendly, conversational style that wins over even a student who says, “I don’t know what to write!!”
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Intermediate Guide to High School Short Story Writing
Creativity is necessary for excellence in all writing formats. Once homeschooling high schoolers graduate, they will need to be able to communicate in ways that interest employers, Sunday school classes, ministries, or any other place God puts them.
Those who are heading for college will be competing for good grades on papers. If they have creativity in their use of thoughts and words, they can produce papers that are interesting to read (as opposed to 200 other drably-written papers that a professor might read).
Homeschoolers can develop confidence in their creativity skills by having some fun with their writing assignments using 7Sisters high school short story writing curriculum guides. Intermediate Guide to High School Short Story Writing: Tall Tales, is a 4-week, 26-page downloadable .pdf writing guide, written by Vicki Tillman to encourage students to capture their creativity by writing a tall tale.
Success awaits with this high school short story writing curriculum!
Presented as writing guide for the inexperienced or under-experienced writing student (or even an experienced student who has forgotten how to have fun with writing), the topics covered include:
- character development
- basic storyline development
- basic story conversation using dialect
- rubric for editing and grading
The lessons are designed for independent learning (or for use in a co-op). They are not time-consuming or full of busywork. Rather, homeschooling teens can feel not only creative but successful as they complete this guide.
Click here to view an excerpt from Intermediate Guide to High School Story Writing.
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MLA Research Paper Guide
There is NO escape from the research paper!
However, your homeschooler can feel equipped and empowered to produce a powerful and interesting paper- and be ready to ace Freshman Composition when the time comes.
What you need is no-busywork, friendly-toned research paper curriculum for high school.
Research papers are a necessary of homeschool education. Young people need to be able to capture and organize ideas, communicate with written words, and create citations and reference pages.
This 38-page downloadable pdf guide by Allison Thorp will lead your student through the research paper process from topic choice through final draft, culminating in an MLA style paper with proper citations. The process is broken down into manageable sections with lots of advice and direction for each. MLA Research Paper Writing Guide teaches necessary skills with no unnecessary busywork.
This guide is adaptable for grades 7-12 and for papers of various lengths.
Included in the guide are:
- helpful tips for the teacher
- suggested schedules
- samples
- sample grading rubric
Using this research paper curriculum for high school with our own students and hundreds in our local homeschool community over the years, we have seen success with writers of every variety.
From those who love to write, to those who cry, “I don’t know know what to write!” Allison’s friendly, easy-to-follow steps of instruction and the manageable pieces into which she breaks the research writing process result in papers completed and students encouraged.
There is no escape from the research paper, so give your homeschooler the tools for a successful research paper experience!
Click here to view an excerpt from Research Paper Writing Guide.
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Here’s what some families have to say about Writing curriculum from 7SistersHomeschool:
My daughter used this and it was just perfect for her. Bite sized pieces. Good guidance for each step but low pressure enough to avoid writing anxiety. – M.
I am currently homeschooling 3 boys who HATE writing. After two girls who loved to read and write, I was totally out of my element. I tried everything. Spent so much money on expensive writing curriculums only to fail over and over again. Until I found 7 Sisters.
I won’t say my boys love writing now, but they do it! And they are becoming really good writers because of how the writing guides are broken down into small, manageable steps. I’m a big picture kind of person, so it was hard for me to figure out how to teach the steps. These guides have taken all the stress out of teaching writing. I was considering giving up because my boys couldn’t write a paragraph. When I say 7 Sisters saved our homeschool, I mean it.
FYI, the literature guides are just as good! – K.