Essay Writing
This one-to-one ONLINE mentoring program will assist students to learn or build upon their skills/strategies to the essay writing process. Students will go over the various types of essays, understanding a rubric, steps to the writing process, use of graphic organizers to lay out brainstorming thoughts, ideas, research and supporting information, learn how to research effectively, note taking and citing resources correctly. Students will learn how to take this information and transform them into coherent sentences that flow from one paragraph to the next. Each week of the program will be systematic mentoring working towards completing a 5-paragraph persuasive essay project on a topic of the student’s choice
Program Delivery Format Options:
100% ONLINE Virtual Synchronous Learning
*there may be flexibility for program delivery
90-minute sessions for students in Grades 7-12.
Spring 2024 Offerings:
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Option #1: THURSDAYS
When: May 2 to June 20
Time: 5:15pm-6:45pm
Where: ONLINE
Registration:
Program Fee: $200.00 for 8wk, 90min/wk
At LDA-LR, we do not want our fees to act as a barrier to any family registering for our programs. During the intake and registration for program phase, our staff would be pleased to discuss with you the option of reducing or waiving fees.
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