These courses are only offered online and run for the entire school year. Prices are listed for the fall semester.
This middle school creative writing course invites students to explore and create across multiple genres, including novels, screenplays, short stories, essays, blogs, and newspaper articles. Students will build skills in narrative structure, voice, and purpose while expressing their creativity, developing ideas, and writing for various audiences and formats.
Tuesdays 10:30 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. EST
Students sharpen writing and grammar skills using Investigations in Writing and Fix It! Grammar: Level 4. Meeting once weekly for eighty minutes across thirty-six weeks, this course blends analysis, sentence mastery, and composition practice to build confident, precise writers through engaging lessons, discussion, and revision.
IEW: Investigations in Writing (Student Book)
ISBN: 978-1-62341-419-1
Fix It! Grammar: Level 4 Mowgli/Sher Khan
ISBN: 978-1-62341-363-7
Tuesdays 11:30 a.m. - 12:55 a.m. EST
Students will become “Word Detectives” and uncover the history and secrets of the English language. Through creative projects and investigations of roots, prefixes, and borrowed words, students will explore how language evolves from ancient times to modern slang.
Thursdays 10:00 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. EST
These courses are only offered online and run for the entire school year. Prices are listed for the fall semester.
Explore history’s smelliest moments! From ancient baths to industrial cities, investigate how odors influenced daily life, hygiene, social classes, and reform. Discover the surprising power of smell in shaping human behavior and historical events.
Thursdays 9:00 a.m. - 9:55 a.m. EST
History is full of drama! In this course, students will meet heroes, villains, and legendary characters, analyzing what drives them, and what makes them unforgettable. Through interactive activities, journaling, and hands on projects, they’ll think creatively, debate ideas, and uncover the wild, messy, and fascinating side of the past.
Thursdays 11:00 a.m. - 11:55 a.m. EST
Travel through Tennessee’s past through prehistoric mounds to modern music, discovering epic stories, legendary figures, and cultural traditions. Explore history through hands-on projects, creative activities, and engaging readings while building maps, timelines, diaries, and multimedia presentations to bring Tennessee’s wild history to life.
Thursdays 12:00 p.m. - 12:55 p.m. EST
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