This course is recommended for students entering Grade 4. We recommend students enroll in Language Arts courses at grade level.

Each 18-week term will cover 2 units, with each unit featuring a long-term project that integrates a variety of reading, writing, critical thinking, and grammar skills.

• Narrative Writing: Students explore influential texts of the Revolutionary period from a language arts perspective, including misleading texts on both sides, and learn to create quality narratives of their own.
• Expository Essays: Students are introduced to both prominent and lesser-heard voices from the Civil War era as they use careful analysis to write evidence-based essays and present a live documentary-style presentation in class.

• Persuasion: The quest to secure voting rights in the United States is the background for this unit's study of the tools of persuasive writing and speaking.
• Poetry: Students read and analyze a work of poetic memoir, then craft their own personal narratives in poetic form, thereby contributing to a collective "history" of their class's lifetimes.

Students must purchase the required books before the start of the course.

Our instructors hold classes virtually, in a small-sized (10-16 students) videoconferencing classroom.

Students should expect to spend about 60-90 minutes on homework every week. Homework will include practicing skills learned in class through short answer questions, long-term writing assignments connected to the unit project, and assigned reading in one of the four quarterly textbooks.

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Each course runs for 18 weeks and offers two timing formats. Both cover the same course material.

• One 105-minute lesson per week, or
• Two 55-minute lessons per week