Get ready for a year of creepy creatures, plucky pirates and pilots, and larger-than-life legends in this exciting writing class! Covering the IEW Units 1-9, students will learn IEW Structure and Style® writing method along with games and activities to help reinforce concepts. Includes two novel unit studies. 

Tuesdays 1-2:30 p.m. (online) 

September 8, 2026 - May 25, 2027

Materials needed:

Structure and Style for Students Year 1 Level B

The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling

The Children's Homer, Padraic Colum

Suggested: Fix It! Grammar Level 2: Town Mouse and Country Mouse Student Book and Teacher's Manual

Tuition (4 or more students):  $900/yr; payable $100 monthly

Literature & The Lost Tools of Writing is a class where students learn the art of persuasive writing about issues in selected literature. Students cultivate wisdom and virtue for each essay that they write as they work through three stages: invention, arrangement, and elocution. With each assignment, more tools will be added to create lengthier, well-ordered, and stylish essays. As they read each book, students will also maintain a literary response journal and learn literary techniques authors use in their works to create characters, to create mood, and to emphasize themes.

Thursdays 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. PST (online) 

September 10 - May 27

Materials needed:

         The Lost Tools of Writing (Student seminar book only!)

         Little Britches by Ralph Moody

         The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

         Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

         The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

         The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

         Master Cornhill by Eloise Jarvis McGraw 

*Some selections may contain distinctly Christian content

Tuition (4 or more students):  $900/yr; payable $100 monthly