PowerHouse Writing Intermediate
Dive deeper into the concepts taught in PowerHouse Writing: Grades 4-8. PowerHouse Writing Intermediate is intended for students in grades 8-10 and prepares them for our more rigorous college-prep writing course: PowerHouse Writing: High School. The intermediate course can be taken with or without prior exposure to other PowerHouse courses and enables students to earn a .5 credit on a high school transcript.
In PowerHouse Writing Intermediate, students will:
- Analyze and edit grammar for more powerful word choices
- Identify similes and metaphors in context
- Discern the difference between persuasive and expository statements
- Label graphic organizers to visually represent essay ideas
- Implement a simple and effective formula for writing introductions and conclusions
- Incorporate evidence appropriately for supporting points
- Format essays into MLA
- Utilize a three-step essay-writing process
- Self-edit using an essay checklist
- Assess their essays using a rubric (for students and teachers)
- Create an expository essay with evidence backed by in-text citations
- Craft a persuasive essay using all the writing tools they’ve acquired
- Dive into the fundamentals of literary analysis and write an essay based on a book they’ve read
Your Instructor
Lisa resides in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin with her husband Travis. Married since 1993, they have three adult children who have all graduated from "Dettinger Academy" and are now blazing their own beautiful paths in life. Lisa has a degree in education that spans PK-12, and has taught professionally in California and Wisconsin at the elementary, middle, high school, and college levels. After teaching writing classes to about a thousand students locally for eight years, Lisa created e-courses for grades 4-12. Her work has been published for university classes, teaching journals, virtual charter schools, and homeschools. Currently, she is the lead teacher and administrator for a private Christian school she started in the fall of 2020 for grades 5-12. In addition to her education journey, Lisa is also a professional Christian Life Coach with additional certifications in Spiritual Formation, Clarity and Momentum, and the Color Code (re: core motives). Her book "Fully Whelmed: Shifting from Overwhelm to Overflow" was published in early 2020. In addition to her work at PowerHouse Christian School, life-coaching, and being active in her local church, Lisa loves speaking and exhibiting at homeschool conventions across the country. She is fully whelmed and loving it.
Course Curriculum
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PreviewIntroduction (2:24)
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StartPrintable Workbook
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StartLesson 1: A Bit of Grammar (14:29)
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StartLesson 2: Word Choice (7:18)
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StartLesson 3: Similes and Metaphors (10:15)
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StartLesson 4: Four Types of Writing (7:13)
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StartLesson 5: Persuasive vs. Expository Writing (8:39)
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StartLesson 6: Basic Essay Structure (10:09)
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StartLesson 7: Writing Introductions (11:19)
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StartLesson 8: Writing Conclusions (8:45)
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StartLesson 9: Incorporating Evidence (9:57)
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StartLesson 10: Formatting Your Essays (17:53)
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StartLesson 11: Graphic Organizers (5:19)
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StartStudying for the Review Quiz (13:58)
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StartReview Quiz Read-through (15:38)
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StartEssay #1: Expository (12:38)
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StartEssay #2: Persuasive (4:32)
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StartEssay #3: Literary Analysis (13:11)