This course is recommended for students entering Grade 7. We recommend students enroll in Language Arts courses at grade level.

Each 18-week term will cover 2 units, with each unit featuring a project that students complete using the writing and critical thinking skills they are learning in class.

• Classical Rhetoric: Students study the writings of Aristotle to learn foundational skills for addressing and persuading an audience. Along the way, they use these skills to analyze their own audience and build a persuasive argument that they will deliver at a fictional town hall meeting.
• Rhetoric and Advertising: Now equipped with the essentials of classical rhetoric, students examine how modern-day advertising uses these same strategies in commercials and marketing campaigns. Students become savvy consumers of advertising as they learn to design and pitch their own persuasive TV commercials.

• Detective Rhetoric: Students learn how authors of detective fiction use rhetorical strategies to create compelling mysteries. As the class analyzes an ongoing mystery story, students gather evidence to build their own convincing solution to the case and ultimately write the ending to the story.
• Rhetoric in Global Problem-Solving: Taking on the roles of delegates in a simulated United Nations summit, students devise a solution to a fictional global dilemma and use rhetorical strategies to negotiate with their colleagues and gain support for their solution.

Students must purchase the required books before the start of the course.

Our instructors hold classes virtually, in a small-sized (10-16 students) videoconferencing classroom.

Teachers provide written feedback on each weekly writing assignment to help students build their writing skills and deepen their thinking about their unit project. At the end of the unit, students receive final written feedback and a score on their unit project, reflecting how well they have mastered the skills covered in that unit.

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Each course runs for 18 weeks, with one 60-minute lesson and personalized written feedback from the instructor each week.