Ancient History-Based Writing Lessons - Grades 5-8

Learn how to write with structure and style. Students will work through the Institute for Excellence in Writing's (IEW) units 1-9 as they learn to take notes, retell narrative stories, summarize references, write from pictures, and compose their own research papers.  Students will soar through the ancient civilizations of Sumer, Egypt, Israel, Babylon, Greece, Rome, Asia Minor, and Asia.  Discover the wonders of the ancient world by learning to write with structure and style!  

Vocabulary and grammar concepts will be included in this course.

Please note that this is the .first semester of a year-long course

******Parents are responsible for purchasing the prior to the first day of class (), as well as either purchasing or printing out the Student Resource Notebook from IEW. Ancient History-Based Writing Student bookhttps://iew.com/shop/products/ancient-history-based-writing-lessons-student-book-only

Fall semester mandatory literature (choose one):

by Eloise Jarvis McGraw.The Golden Goblet