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Session: Elementary 2 - English Language Arts (Brain Power Enrichment Programs)


Elementary 2 - English Language Arts

By: Brain Power Enrichment Programs


About this Program:

  • Virtual Program
  • Age 11 - 12 (Coed)
  • Specialized in Instructor lead (group), offers 4 activities
  • 0 session dates to choose from
  • Cost starting from $3,476
  • Special needs support not available

Course Description

Brain Power’s Elementary 2 course is designed to enable students to:

  • Write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs
  • Write solid personal, persuasive, and literary essays
  • Improve reading comprehension
  • Engage in discussion and debate
  • Develop critical-thinking skills
  • Improve their elementary-school grades and prepare for junior-high school

Elementary 2 focuses on the four key components of all our English Language Arts courses:

  • Building sophisticated vocabularies
  • Improving grammar skills
  • Improving reading comprehension and critical/analytical skills
  • Improving critical/analytical writing skills

In short, Elementary 2 will help students to excel in their elementary-school classes across a range of subject areas, while preparing them for the greater demands of junior-high school.

Course Structure:

Each class in the Elementary 2 year is designed to introduce them to essential literary terms and critical concepts, including:

  • Irony
  • Point of view / Narration
  • Adaptation
  • The Editorial
  • Non-fiction
  • Autobiography
  • Satire
  • Character
  • Symbolism
  • Imagery
  • Theme
  • Close Reading
  • Historical Fiction / History as Fiction
  • Philosophical Fiction

Key terms and concepts are returned to several times over the course of the year, in the context of different readings and assignments, ensuring not only that students retain what they have learned but that they can apply that knowledge in different contexts.

Course Evaluation:

Students will be evaluated on:

  • Vocabulary homework
  • Vocabulary quizzes
  • Weekly in-class grammar exercises
  • Weekly writing assignments
  • Novel study (for 34-lesson course)
  • Essay assignments
  • Mid-term and final vocabulary exams
  • Final exam


Character Development: This program helps build the following traits

  • Self-regulation: Conscientiousness, discipline, and self-control. The ability to regulate emotions and behaviour. Organization and executive functioning skills.
  • Independence: Ability and willingness to do things on one’s own. Self-initiative, self-motivation, self-care. Decisiveness.


Session Dates and Rates:

Date TBD
Maple, ON
9600 Bathurst Street

Time TBD
Cost TBD
2023-09-123476


Activities:

Recreational       Instructional       Intense or Competitive

Instructor lead (group)
Language Instruction
Reading
Writing
Recreational       Instructional       Intense or Competitive



One-of-a-kind Language Arts enrichment!
Learn how to communicate clearly and concisely in both speech and writing!

 

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