Lesson Number & Title

Content

Exercises

Final Writing Assignment (FWA)

1-- Freeing the Writer Inside

Grammar Elements:

Subject and Predicate

Imperatives

Questions

1. Definitions

2. Sentence Patterns and Parts

Anthropomorphic essay from the perspective of an inanimate object

Writing Elements:

Becoming Functionally unfixed

Form vs Function

3. Molly and Ned Game

4. C-A-T definitions (group)

2-- The Power of Detail

Grammar Elements:

Prepositional Phrases

Adverbs

Adjectives

1. Prepositions

2. Adjectives

Descriptive essay of a significant place, typically a room.  Emphasis on sensory description.

Writing Elements:

The Power of Detail

The Limits of Visual Description

Prewriting Through Poetry

Freewriting

Finding a Starting Point

3. Object Description (group)

4. Five senses poem

5. Directed Freewriting

6. Free Association

3-- The Craft of Composing

Grammar Elements:

Simple Present

Present Progressive

Simple Past

Past Progressive

Inconsistent Verb tenses

1. Present Tenses

2. Past Tenses

3. Inconsistent Verb Tenses

4. Revising your work

Chronological narrative essay, emphasizing order and importance of events.

Writing Elements:

Fiction narrative vs Nonfiction narrative

Tools of narrative

Avoiding narrative gumption traps

5. Learning to Lie (group)

6. Three sequences

4-- Elegant Sentences

Style vs Correctness

Elegance, Power, and Style

Elements of Elegance

Sentence-Level Revision

1. Identifying Errors

2. Identifying Elegance

3. Analyze an Elegant Sentence

4. Revise and Analyze an Inelegant Sentence

5. Revision and Analysis (group)

Revision and analysis of 6 inelegant sentences

5-- Revising for Unity

Grammar Elements:

Present Perfect

Past Perfect

1. Present Perfect

2. Past Perfect

3. Writing with the Past Perfect

Restructuring and Revision of Lesson 3's narrative essay.  Emphasis on organization, flashbacks.

Writing Elements:

Unity, Coherence, Proportion

Reorganization

Beginnings

Flashbacks

Catchy Titles

4. Outline your first draft

5. Virtual Stroll

6-- Analyzing Events

Grammar Elements:

Phrasal Verbs

Verb + Preposition Combinations

1. Using Phrasal Verbs

2. Pronoun/Object Placement

3. Creating a Dictionary

4. Choosing Phrasal Verbs

5. Using Verb + Preposition Combinations

6. Test your logic

7. Using Verb Phrases Creatively

Cause and Effect Essay, analyzing a significant life event.

Writing Elements:

Narrative vs analysis

Causal Chains

Logical Fallacies

8. What is Cause and Effect

7-- Polishing Your Prose

Grammar Elements:

Adjective Clauses

Subject-Verb Agreement

Punctuation Rules

1. Definitions

2. Adjective Clauses

3. Subject-Verb Agreement: conjugate a paragraph

4. Punctuate a Paragraph

Revision of Lesson 2's descriptive essay, with emphasis on use of metaphor and simile.

Writing Elements:

Figurative Language

Alliteration

Telescoping

5. Figurative Language

6. Alliteration

7. Telescoping

8-- Creating a Persona

Grammar Elements:

Subject Complement

Predicate Adjective

Linking Verb

1. "Conjugating" an "Irregular Verb"

5. Creating a Scenario (conjugation added to FWA)

First-Person piece, written from the perspective of a fictional person

Writing Elements:

Diction

Syntax

Tone

2. Elements of a Persona

3. Persona's Voice

4. Consistent Psychology

5. Creating a Scenario

6. Working with a Persona

9-- Revision Strategies and Tactics

Grammar Elements:

Conjunctions

Adverb Clauses

Transitional Words and Phrases

Omitting Prepositions

2. Virtual Walk Part 1: Grammar

4. Adverb Clauses

5. Transitions

6. Preposition Game

Revision of Lesson 6's Cause and Effect essay, with emphasis on structure and transitions.

Writing Elements:

Unity

Coherence

Proportion

Transitions

1. Prewriting

3. Virtual Walk Part 2: Structure

10-- Writing an Evaluation

Grammar Elements:

Definite and Indefinite Articles

Pronouns and Possessives

1. Articles

2. Pronouns and Possessives

3. Restaurant Review

Evaluation Essay, evaluating the course; emphasis on addressing a particular audience.

Writing Elements:

Finding your standard

Choosing an audience

Choosing a persona

Compare standards

4.  Find Your Standard

5. Positive and Negative Statements

6. Test Your Persona

7.  Compare Standards