Middle School Writing Courses by Kathie Harsch are designed for ages 11-14. Also, some of these courses are LIVE and some upcoming courses will be pre-recorded, asynchronous courses.
Middle School Writing Courses SUMMER CAMPS (LIVE Classes via Google Meet)
Camp: Perfect Paragraph Quest Middle School
In this LIVE online class, students will embark on a four-day quest to master paragraph writing. Discover the techniques to craft clear, engaging, and well-structured paragraphs. By camp’s end, your child will confidently write paragraphs that captivate and convey their ideas effectively.
A great refresher on writing paragraphs before the next school year!
✍🏽Each day, students will embark on a new quest, uncovering the secrets to constructing well-organized, engaging, and informative paragraphs.
✨1: The Quest For A Focused Topic Sentence
✨2: Sailing through Supporting Details
✨3: The Treasure of Elaboration
✨4: The Map of Transition Words and Conclusions
✨BONUS VIDEO: Extra video inside the student workbook for one more lesson to write another paragraph independently.
🌞By the end of the four days, students should have the skills and confidence to write paragraphs that capture their readers’ attention and convey their ideas clearly. 🌞
🗺️This four-day adventure will guide students through the essential elements of writing an effective paragraph. The price of class includes 4 LIVE class lessons, digital workbook in Google Slides, Google Classroom with Google Meet link, and a bonus video of a 5th lesson students can complete on their own.
To sign up for this class, click on the link provided, you will be redirected to my webpage about this course, and you can schedule there for the week you prefer.
Once you have scheduled, you will receive a confirmation email. Then, 24 hours before your scheduled class begins, I will send you the Google Classroom link where there will be a Google Meet link for the LIVE class for your child to join.
Please see my class policies here: Ms. Kathie’s Class Policies
Click on the Next Bookable Date Below to Find When Each Week Begins
Camp: Writing a Reading Response Paragraph
In this LIVE 4-day camp, your middle school child will learn how to respond to a reading response question from analyzing a text and then writing to: form a claim, select evidence, and explain connotations and conclude their paragraph.
🗺️This four-day camp will lead middle students through the essential elements of writing a literary response paragraph that is often used in schools to answer text questions and to provide body paragraphs in state testing essays.
➡️The price of this class includes 4 LIVE class lessons, digital workbook in Google Slides, access to the Google Classroom for their class section date and time including the LIVE meeting Google Meet link, which will be activated the week camp begins.
✨ This camp is a great refresher on writing paragraphs for answering text-based questions that require evidence and explanation before the next school year!
✍🏽Students will read a poem and discuss with the class its meaning. Then, they will learn to:
- form a claim
- find evidence to back the claim
- learn about connotation and analysis to explain their evidence
- write a conclusion and revise for better word choices and transition words.
🌞By the end of the four days, students should have the skills and confidence to write paragraphs that convey their ideas clearly. 🌞
➡️To sign up for this class, click on the link provided below, you will be redirected to a Google Calendar schedule for this course. Click on JUMP TO THE NEXT BOOKABLE DATE where you can choose your scheduled week.
Once you have paid and scheduled, you will receive a confirmation email.
Then, 24 hours before your child’s scheduled class begins, I will send you the Google Classroom link where there will be a Google Meet link for the LIVE class for your child to join.
Please see my policies here: Ms. Kathie’s Class Policies
Click on the Next Bookable Date Below to Find When Each Week Begins
Camp: 4 Story Writing Tricks to Write a Story
In this four-day story writing camp, your middle school writer will learn from a published author 4 proven writing strategies to help them break through writer’s block and begin a short story or scene.
Each day, students will learn how to use a different writing strategy to break through writer’s block and use those strategies to write a story.
Strategies your learner will practice during this camp:
- Asking Questions and Brain dumping to get at their story idea and main character.
- Mind Mapping to help them describe characters and setting.
- Timeline of Events in their story
- Writing sprint (based on their timeline) to begin their story
Your writer will be interacting with each other and me to:
- Define a particular writing strategy – through discussion and sharing
- Learn through guided practice how to use that strategy to create an array of specific details about their story.
- Organize their details before writing.
- Share some of our ideas with each other
- Write a part of their short story using their new ideas, if time.
- Share some of our writing with other learners, if we have time
➡️NOTE: To get the most out of this week, please download the workbook from the link you receive inside the Google Classroom. We will use it all week.
Students will need the following materials:
- download the pdf workbook or make a copy of the Google Slides from the link given inside the classroom for a digital workbook
- notebook paper or a writing journal (a spiral notebook is perfect)
- pen or pencil (their writing preference)
- highlighter, which is optional
Please see the policies here: Ms. Kathie’s Class Policies