Class Overview
Made With You in Mind
Essay Prep: Dynamic Thinking grows your teens into critical thinkers.
Academic discourse requires the writer to know what they think, and why. This critical element of essay writing is overlooked when we over-emphasize formats.
Most writing programs expect kids to jump from early childhood writing to academic writing with little to no help. Our Essay Prep series bridges that gap. These exercises and writing processes can be used again and again as your teens move into high school and beyond!
Here, your teen will develop the rhetorical imagination needed to embark on deep thinking before they are called to write essays. No more "blank page, blank stare" syndrome!
In this class, students will:
- reflect on the controversial nature of a topic for writing
- associate ideas using metaphor and analogy
- identify their true perspective on a topic
- believe and doubt the same argument, to grow their minds
- create a final project synthesizing writing from the class
This class is utterly unique in the world of writing instruction. Join us!
It’s a hard, cruel world? Not here!
At Brave Writer®, we recognize that tween and teen writers have a tentative confidence that can be crushed just as easily as when they were novice writers.
We take seriously the need to protect and nourish a student's original writing voice, while also gently coaching that student to develop a sophisticated investigation of academic topics.
Your reluctant, neurodiverse, or anxious writers will feel welcome in our space!
Our Essay Prep classes are designed for 8th to 10th graders or older high school students who've had little experience with academic writing.
The Essay Prep series provides a foundation for the Essay Writing 101: Analytic Essay class and ought to be taken first if your kids have never studied the essay form. The classes in this series are designed to be taken in any order. We recommend completing all three classes in the series before moving on to the essay class.
Audio Tracks Available!
You've been asking for a way to support your struggling readers, and we heard you loud and clear! You have the option to add on audio tracks of all class readings for $49. Your child can now listen as they read, strengthening those developing reading skills and deepening understanding!
