New Humanities Classes for Teens!

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Are you looking for academic enrichment for your homeschooler? This year Willow Learning House is offering a new class that is geared specifically towards older students, aged 12 and up and operating at a grade 7 level or higher in English L:anguage Arts. 

**New students will be asked to complete a small assessment to ensure that they are a good fit for the class.**

Classes consist of weekly classroom meetings and weekly homework assignments. During class meetings, students will participate in a variety of interactive activities, designed to enhance communication skills and critical thinking. Homework will include assigned reading and bookwork, as well as completion of written assignments, internet research and submission of typed essays and projects.

This school year, we will have an overarching theme of Human Rights. As we study some historically significant moments in modern history, students will be asked to make connections between them and to question the concept and the implementation of Human Rights, both in the past and in the present.

Please email claire@willowlearninghouse.ca  for more information or to see if this program is a good fit for your child.

This spring, we will be bringing our study of human rights closer to home with an inquiry into the history of Residential schools in Canada. We will be guided by the short novel, "Fatty Legs" by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and the graphic novel and musical album "The Secret Path" by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire. Lessons will be centered around: theme, figurative language, historical context, historical perspective, primary vs. secondary sources, small research projects, and book response essay writing. 

During class meetings, we will discuss assigned materials that have been read and/or completed at home, participate in group lessons, activities, and discussions, as well as working on a variety of related writing assignments.