Writing
Writing is a skill that we can all benefit from. It can help us to organize our thoughts, communicate clearly, and even entertain those around us. It’s a skill that is highly valued and sought after in schools and the professional world. At Future V, we believe that all of our students can benefit from writing skills which is why we offer classes for both creative and academic writing. By teaching both creative and academic writing, students are given the chance to find their passion for writing, and develop their own personal style and voice as writers.
Creative Writing
Creative writing is an essential skill for writers of any genre and any age. Learning how to creatively express yourself through writing will better help you organize and manage your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. This creative writing class is designed with one goal in mind: to create competent and confident creative writers.
Our classes are comprised of mini lessons, writing exercises, collaborative writing, reading, journalling, and sharing. Every class gives students an opportunity to write and share that writing with the class who then gives feedback. In order to improve, students must commit to writing at home during the week. ‘Home-play’ (homework), is assigned every week but beyond that it is up to each individual student to practice writing outside of class. Our classes are full of laughter and applause and uplifting experiences because creative writing can only happen in a safe and encouraging space.
In our class students will explore the following questions:
What is ‘good’ writing and how can we improve our writing to communicate what we feel and think?
What is the writing process?
What is poetry and what kinds of poetic forms can I use to creatively express an idea?
How does storytelling connect us and what techniques are used to construct meaningful stories?
What is creativity and why is it useful?
What are my challenges as a writer and what are my strengths?
The learning objectives are as follows
- To understand the mechanics of poetry and storytelling
- To find joy in the writing process and re-write often
- To organize and structure ideas in creative ways
- To find a personal voice and style
- To receive and give constructive feedback
- To play, make mistakes, and learn how to let go of the fear of writing
- To brainstorm, pre-write, edit, re-write and revise
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Beginner Level
No prior experience is necessary.
Approx. 7 months to complete
Suggested 3 hours/week
English
Subtitles: English, Arabic, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, Spanish
Academic Writing
Future V Academic Writing course is intended to help students improve all aspects of their school related writings and is invaluable for writing college essay applications. It is a program that is completed by attending three class levels. The first level introduces students to designing, planning and writing well-structured paragraphs and school papers of one, two and three pages. The second level is where students learn and practice reports and essays, writing bibliographies and references. The third and final level introduces students to writing research proposals and papers, outlines, advanced reports, abstracts and thesis statements.
This course focuses on teaching both fundamentals and mechanics of sentence, paragraph and document structures for academic writing. It requires students to take an active role in class activities and homework assignments. Each class level consists of ten core classes, and students can expect to write as many as twenty different documents per level. Attendance at all three levels and participation in all classroom writing practice and homework assignments are required for successful completion of this course.
The learning objectives are as follows
- How to plan out a piece of academic writing
- How to structure a variety of different types of writing
- How to correctly create a bibliography section
- How to format formal writing assignments
- How to create a thesis statement, and what a thesis statement is
Choose your level to practise your writing
Beginner A1
Writing practice to help you write short, simple texts about known topics and fill in forms. Texts include messages, emails and forms.
Pre-intermediate A2
Writing practice to help you write short, simple texts, notes and messages. Texts include messages, forum posts, personal profiles, forms and emails.
Intermediate B1
Writing practice to help you write simple connected text on familiar topics that are of personal interest. Texts include forum posts, reviews, messages, short essays and emails.
Upper intermediate B2
Writing practice to help you write clear, detailed text on a wide range of topics related to your interests. Texts include essays, reports, reviews, messages and emails.
Advanced C1
Writing practice to help you write clear, well-structured texts about complex subjects. Texts include essays, proposals, articles, reports, reviews and emails.
Writing for a purpose
This section will help you to improve your writing for college and university assignments. These materials are for advanced C1 and proficiency C2 level learners.
How do I enroll?
Step 1
for new students, please fill out the registration form completely (this is a one time thing for student’s account. If you have registered for other classes, you don’t need to register again).
Step 2
Enroll in the class
Step 3
Monthly fee is collected at the beginning of each month.
Of course, you can always enroll and make payment in person. 🙂 We will send reminders for your upcoming sessions.
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