TPS English Reading, Writing and Literature Courses – Engaging Literature, Confident Writing
Why are TPS English students such skilled and confident writers?
- TPS Elementary Writing courses delightfully provide a strong writing foundation, so our young writers are confidently prepared for middle school and high school writing.
- Every TPS English course develops specific writing and rhetoric skills based on the level of the course. We systematically progress writing through every stage of development (grammar, dialectic, rhetoric) from elementary to college level.
- All TPS English courses at every level — including our literature courses — teach writing with engaging purposeful instruction and assignments. We never stop teaching writing in our English courses, even in upper high school and college level courses.
Good writing — analytical, rhetorical, or creative — combines a set of skills (which can be learned) with individual self-expression (which can be encouraged and developed). Becoming a skilled and confident writer requires expert teaching and individual mentoring, not just practice and feedback. TPS has over two decades of proven excellence in teaching and developing strong and confident writers for college, career, and civic life.
Our Writing program is superlative — the best you will find online and perhaps anywhere. For additional information on how our writing program is designed and taught, please visit our Writing Courses page.
What makes TPS Literature courses so engaging and effective?
- We include popular contemporary literature kids are already enjoying on their own, and the works that influenced them.
- Students study and discuss the literary background and context (rather than just skimming the book or reading summaries).
- Our Lit courses develop and practice individual critical analysis skills (rather than just discussing what others think).
- We systematically teach and improve writing skills (we use the Lit to actively teach and develop writing in every Lit course at every level).
Study of literature can be engaging and academically rewarding at the same time — it does not have to be dry and boring to make it academically effective, nor does it have to be academically reduced or simplified to make it accessible. TPS Lit courses are enjoyably engaging with works students want to study and academically effective in teaching knowledge and skills students need to learn.
Why choose TPS English Reading, Writing and Literature classes over other options?
- TPS teaches writing (we don’t just grade and comment on essays)
- TPS teaches literary (i.e., written works) source analysis and research (we don’t just discuss books)
- Dual college credit option in upper HS Lit and Writing courses.
- Top scores on AP® English Language and AP® English Literature exams.
- Excellent foundation for SAT®, ACT®, and CLT® Exams.
- Master analytical writing, the most frequently used academic skill you will need for college and career.
- Study books you already like — we include an ample selection of popular contemporary literature kids are already enjoying on their own.
- Study the Great Books (classics) of the western literary canon and world literature.
- Summer grammar and writing courses available to prepare students for TPS courses taught during the regular school year.
What Others Are Saying
“I am not the same writer I was before taking this course. It has helped me to raise my standards for clear, polished, academic writing in every assignment.” TPS upper high school student
TPS English Reading, Grammar, Writing, and Literature Classes
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Grammar Courses
Grammar courses are offered in Summer, Fall, and Spring Terms.
Grades 5-8
Grades 8-10
Reading Comprehension Courses
Build comprehension, understanding and thinking skills better in young readers.
Grades 4-6
Grades 5-7
Writing and Literature Courses
Grade 5-6
Grade 6 (Summer)
Grade 6-7
Grade 7 (Summer)
Grade 7-8
- English 1 Lit and Comp – Discovering Courage
- English 1 Lit and Comp – Inspiring Hope
- English 1 Confident Composition
Grade 8 (Summer)
Grade 8-9
- English 2 Lit and Comp – Challenges and Triumphs
- English 2 Lit and Comp – Intuition and Escapades
- English 2 Confident Composition
Grade 9 (Summer)
Grade 9-10
- English 3 Lit and Comp – Intrigue and Illusion
- English 3 Lit and Comp – Justice and Journeys
- English 3 Confident Composition
Grades 10-12 (Summer)
- Grammar 2 – Application and Style
- Writing for Upper High School and College (summer before English 4/5/6)
Grades 10-12
- English 4/5/6 Lit Survey and Composition
- English 4/5/6 Advanced Comp – Classical Style and Rhetoric (Honors)
- English 4/5/6 Western Lit and Comp (Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Defoe and others)
- English 4/5/6 Western Lit and Comp (Homer, Shelley, Dostoevsky, Twain, and others)
- English 4/5/6 Arthurian Lit and Comp
- English 4/5/6 God in Mordor – Modern Age Lit and Comp
- English 4/5/6 Banned Books Lit and Comp
- English 4/5/6 Fantastic Worlds and Epic Tales – Speculative Fiction Lit and Comp
- English 4/5/6 Creative Writing Lit and Comp
- English 4/5/6 College British Lit and Comp
- English 4/5/6 College American Lit and Comp
- English 5/6 College World Lit and Comp
- Holocaust History Through Lit and Film
- Works of C.S. Lewis
Grades 11-12
- English 5/6 College Composition
- AP English Language and Composition
- AP English Literature and Composition
Related Courses
To find more details on these and related courses, please select the “English” or “Literature and Media Analysis” or “Writing and Composition” category in our Course Catalog.
Integrated Literature and History Courses
- History and Literature share a long relationship as the core “Humanities” and it is natural to study them together.
- TPS offers a series of integrated Literature and History courses from elementary through upper high school.
- For upper high school, we feature High Scholars, a two-year high school integrated history, literature, and cultural worldviews curriculum that earns 24 college credits and six (6) high school credits.
Grades 5-6
- Elementary Humanities – History and Literature of the United States
- Elementary Humanities – History and Literature of the Ancient World
Grades 6-7
Grades 9-10 (Honors)
Grades 10-12 (College Dual Credit)
- High Scholars (two years, 24 college credits)
TPS High Scholars
In a partnership between TPS and Belhaven University, High Scholars is a traditional Great Books program that studies western history, literature, and art from ancient to contemporary historical periods.
- 24 college credits from Belhaven University – Freshman Comp 1 and 2, World Lit 1 and 2, Western History 1 and 2, Contemporary History, Art Appreciation.
- Six high school course credits from TPS – Western Lit (2 courses), Western History, Contemporary World History, Western Worldviews, Art History
- Four engaging classes each week (with some attendance flexibility), including regular “round table” discussions.
- Two year curriculum (you can also take either year without the other) welcomes grade 10 and up.
- Content integration allows for lower total workload than each subject taken separately.
Academic English as Foreign Language
TPS English As a Foreign Language (EFL) trains students in academic English so they can excel in TPS late elementary, middle school, and high school courses — all taught in English — as part of preparing for the TPS high school Diploma Partnership and possibly attending a college where the primary language is English.
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