Page 8 - De Anza Summer Academy 2024
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July 1-26
GRADES 6-8
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
These four-week classes will be taught in person on the De Anza College campus.
WRITING
*Meets Common Core standards
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND WRITING
STRUCTURES: GRADE 6*
Entering Grade 6 – This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and expand their academic vocabulary. They will carry out writing assignments based on readings from a variety of informational texts that are appropriate to sixth grade. Students will learn to write a variety of sentence types and incorporate them into expository paragraphs
and short essays. The class will also include focused grammar study. Students will leave the course with a portfolio of their work.
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND WRITING STRUCTURES: GRADE 7*
Entering Grade 7 – This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and expand their academic vocabulary. They will carry out writing assignments based on readings from a variety of texts that are appropriate to seventh grade. Students will learn to write different sentence types and incorporate them into expository paragraphs and short essays. The class will also include focused grammar study. Students will leave the course with a portfolio of their work.
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND WRITING STRUCTURES: GRADE 8*
Entering Grade 8 – This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and expand their academic vocabulary. They will carry out writing assignments based on readings from a variety of texts appropriate to eighth grade. Students will learn to write different sentence types and incorporate them into expository paragraphs and short essays. The class will also include focused grammar study. Students will leave the course with a portfolio of their work.
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