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