I’m excited to announce that I will be running my poetry course at a time that would suit learners in the UK and USA, starting from next Tuesday, December 12.
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I’ve been teaching on Outschool for two years now, and I’ve gained quite a following around the world, with over 1000 learners taught and feedback of 4.99 / 5 stars, based on 324 parent reviews. However, I haven’t previously scheduled many classes at times which suit UK learners who attend school. I’m excited to announce that this has now changed. I have adjusted my daily teaching schedule to include a 5pm slot every day.
On Mondays, I run my English Language Arts Club, with selections from classic literature every week and guided writing activities for homework. Find out more here and enrol here.
On Tuesdays, I will be running a series of literature classes, starting with Macbeth. Find out more here and enrol here. The second class will be A Christmas Carol. Find out more here and enrol here.
On Wednesdays, I run my Story Writing Club. We have a different topic each week, and I always provide lots of guidance, including a structure and suggested vocabulary, so that everyone can succeed. Find out more here and enrol here.
On Thursdays, I run my Advanced Grammar Club for those who are working beyond their age level in grammar and want to embrace a challenge. Find out more here and enrol here.
On Fridays, I run my Grammar Made Easy Club, which is focused on mastering key grammatical concepts, with plenty of explanation and lots of practice. Find out more here and enrol here.
C. S. Lewis’ enduring and perennially popular classic, ‘Prince Caspian’, takes us back into the enchanted world of Narnia with Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy Pevensie. As in ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’, the Pevensie children have a vital mission to restore all to rights, but this time, they are ancient kings and queens from the distant past, for many centuries have passed in Narnia, while only one year has passed in their own lives.
In this eight-week course, we will enjoy and appreciate Lewis’ exciting and inspiring storytelling skills through a mixture of class discussion and writing activities, as well as plenty of quick quizzes to help the knowledge stick and build confidence.
Find out more by following this link.
A new section is starting soon for my course on C. S. Lewis’ classic tale, ‘The Magician’s Nephew’. This is an eight-week, once-a-week course for students aged 9-13. It is on Thursdays, starting on 20th January, at 7am London, 3pm Taiwan, 4pm South Korea, 6pm Sydney.
Get $12 off with coupon code ANTHOMZF2S12 until Feb 14, 2022. Get started at https://outschool.com/classes/the-magicians-nephew-by-c-s-lewis-enjoy-a-classic-tale-of-narnia-Ei0H48Nd and enter the coupon code at checkout.
Over the course of ten weeks, we will enjoy and appreciate Stevenson’s classic tale of adventure together. We will examine themes such as courage, self-sacrifice, loyalty and treachery through interactive discussion. Students will have many opportunities to articulate their ideas and to express them in writing. Written activities will be carefully guided so that students consistently achieve success and gain confidence and fluency.
I provide a detailed young reader’s guide to the novel as part of the enrollment fee. This contains overviews of key information and written exercises focused in detail on particular moments in the novel. There are also lots of quiz questions at the back.
Classes will be a mixture of review, aimed at embedding key facts about the novel’s plot, themes and characters, and close study of particular passages, leading to class discussion and written exercises.
Find out more about my Outschool courses on my website:
In this weekly club, we will plan and write stories together using various different structures, combined with dramatic images that stimulate ideas. Some of the structures we will use are listed below:
Structure One: Shifting Focus
Paragraph One: Description of surroundings: wide focus.
Paragraph Two: Description of surroundings: narrow focus.
Paragraph Three: Description of character.
Paragraph Four: Flashback.
Paragraph Five: Jolt back to present.
Paragraph Six: Powerful ending with cyclical structure. Has anything changed?
Structure Two: A Hero’s Journey
Paragraph One: Setting out
Paragraph Two: Meeting danger
Paragraph Three: Facing setbacks
Paragraph Four: Overcoming setbacks to achieve a goal
Paragraph Five: The journey home
Paragraph Six: The return – how the hero has changed / what they have learned
Structure Three: Start in the Middle
Paragraph One: In medias res (in the middle of things)
Paragraph Two: Flashback: how we got here
Paragraph Three: Jolt back to the present
Paragraph Four: Struggle with danger or difficulty
Paragraph Five: Resolution of danger or difficulty (either happy or tragic)
Creativity is unleashed when we learn methods which we can then adapt. I have found this to be true whenever I have taught structures to students over the years. Students who were stuck and didn’t know how to begin, how to continue, or how to end, were liberated by having a structure within which they could work. Once you have learned it well, you can adapt it any way you like. This is how all of the great authors learned to write – start with a structure that has been used before, then adapt to suit your own ideas.
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[Class image from Wikimedia. Author: Shalom Jacobovitz]
Over the course of eight weeks, students will receive a thorough grounding in all of the major themes and key characters of the novel. They will have many opportunities to discuss their ideas and to express them in writing. Written activities will be carefully guided so that students consistently achieve success and gain confidence and fluency.
All materials are provided as part of the enrollment fee, including a study guide with quiz questions and a textbook with writing exercises.
Classes will be a mixture of review, aimed at embedding key facts about the novel’s plot, themes, characters and context, and close study of particular passages, leading to class discussion and written exercises.
I am also running a taster lesson for this course. Find out more about this here.
View a sample of the detailed textbook included with enrollment here.
Find out more about all of my online classes at my website:
A parent recently wrote: ‘My child came away having learnt more in a single lesson than they ever have in a full term elsewhere.’ So why not give my ‘Grammar Made Easy’ class a try for half price?
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During this six-week course, students will be closely guided in order to achieve success in writing powerful, tightly-focused, precise and convincing non-fiction. Classes will begin with lively discussion of a topic to generate ideas for writing, helping students to shape their thoughts before putting pen to paper. The second part of each class will be set aside for applying these ideas by writing a piece of non-fiction. A writing framework will be provided, along with helpful vocabulary. This guidance will ensure that every student produces an effective piece of writing. My philosophy of instruction is based on the science of how we develop skills: practice makes permanent. Whatever we do repeatedly, we get good at doing. It is vital that students practise writing in an accurate, focused and convincing way, and this course will give them many opportunities to do just that.
The topics for writing are as follows:
Weeks 1-2:
‘All sport should be fun, fair and open to everyone. These days, sport seems to be more about money, corruption and winning at any cost.’
Write an article for a newspaper in which you explain your point of view on this statement.
Weeks 3-4:
‘Parents today are overprotective. They should let their children take part in adventurous, even risky, activities to prepare them for later life.’
Write an article for a broadsheet newspaper in which you argue for or against this statement.
Weeks 5-6:
‘Cars are noisy, dirty, smelly and downright dangerous. They should be banned from all town and city centres, allowing people to walk and cycle in peace.’
Write a letter to the Minister for Transport arguing your point of view on this statement.
Find out more about this, and all of my courses, on my website:
Enter the magical world of Narnia with this fantastic offer! Try the taster lesson on ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’ for half price. If you enjoy that lesson, you can sign up for the course with $20 off.
For the taster lesson at half price, use coupon code ANTHOO9DQK6 until Nov 27, 2021. Get started at https://outschool.com/classes/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-introducing-c-s-lewis-narnian-classic-4D1aLNhw and enter the coupon code at checkout.
For the course with $20 off, use coupon code ANTHOJ6WCU20 until Nov 11, 2021. Get started at https://outschool.com/classes/the-lion-the-witch-and-the-wardrobe-enjoy-c-s-lewis-classic-narnian-tale-Wi4UrGIj and enter the coupon code at checkout.
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