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Essay Writing & Grammar
Writing with Power / Writing Under Pressure / Writing for Pleasure
Word!
Word up!
In the beginning was the word!
Words move the world.
You have a lot to say and more to do. Afrikan people invented writing. We return to Medu Ntr, MAAT, Ki Kongo to guide our Sankofa Word: Essay & Grammar Intensive.
The class meets twice a week with a live instructor and all the students. Students also can meet with classmates in our exclusive online space anytime you want! Together, you'll learn how to use your pen or keyboard to shape ideas and opinions into essays of varieties from expository to persuasive!
foci:
• Reading comprehension and speed for different types of reading:
• Current events (newspaper, magazines),
• Literature,
• Social Studies,
• Report writing: book reports, evaluative reports, research reports, etc.
• Becoming a storyteller (oral and written)
Day -
Grammar?
Well, we still emphasize it in Advanced Composition.
We just use our Afrikan cultural strengths to do it. Here's a question that gives you some clue to how we do it.
Question 1: If "movement" and "essence" or "realness" are high cultural values, how can we use these to guide our learning grammar rules and how English grammar works?
Question 2: If “function” before form” is a key cultural value of our people, how can we use that to accelerate our becoming proficient at English Grammar?
Question 3: Could it be that contrasting English grammar with the grammar of an Afrikan
Language grammar of say -
It's in there..... That's it, now you're thinking in the AYA way.
Join us to find out just how we use our African cultural strengths to make grammar fun and relevant.
