Grades 9 to 12 - Writing Strategically
High school students are expected to strengthen their expressive and technical abilities in order to develop their unique perspectives and write with power and purpose. The WEX Method™ of teaching writing includes teaching students to read literature and other required texts with a heightened awareness of how an author conveys meaning. The result is a deeper engagement with the text that leads to insightful analysis and better essays. High school students not only learn to recognize the strategies authors use to make an impact on readers, they have daily practice in using those strategies themselves. Ultimately, students learn to write strategically and with full command of the technical and expressive skills necessary to communicate their ideas clearly, correctly, and with power.
Introductory Module:
- Getting Started
Core Skill Modules:
- Focus (topic development)
- Showing
- Sentence Mechanics and Usage II
- Dialogue and Evidence I
- Dialogue and Evidence II
- Setting and Context I
- Setting and Context II
- Logical Structure I
- Logical Structure II
Core Genre Modules:
- Personal Essay
- Short Story
- Response to Literature
- Persuasive Essay
Additional Skill Modules:
- Strong Verbs
- Sensory Detail
- Character Development
- Verb Tense
- Subject Verb Agreement II
- Punctuating and Formatting Quotations
- Dialogue and Evidence III
- Varying Sentence Style
- Minimizing Cliché
- Playing with Voice
- Logical Structure III
- Setting and Context III
- Sustaining Mood and Tone
