TPS English Reading, Writing and Literature Courses – Become a skilled and confident writer!
“Our daughter’s growth as a writer through this course has been absolutely jaw-dropping. The creative knowledge-packed assignments in this course have sent her writing skills through the ceiling.” Parent of TPS elementary writing student
TPS has been teaching writing since 1997. Over more than two decades, the comment we still hear most often from our former English students is that they were among the strongest most confident writers in their college classes and beyond.
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.
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® and ACT® Exams.
- Master analytical writing, the most important academic skill you will need for college and career.
- Study of 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
Grades 5-6: Elementary Grammar
Grades 6-8 (Summer): Grammar Foundations for Elementary and Middle School Writing
Grade 7: English 1 Grammar Supplement (available only with English 1)
Reading Comprehension Courses
Build comprehension, understanding and thinking skills better in young readers.
Suggested English Writing and Literature Sequence
Other courses listed on this page should be added to this sequence where appropriate for academic level and need.
Grade 5: Writing 5 Adventures
Grade 6 (Summer): Writing for Elementary School
Grade 6: Writing 6 Exploration
Grade 7 (Summer): Writing for Middle School (alternates content each year, may be taken twice)
Grade 7
- English 1 Lit and Comp – Unlikely Heroes
- English 1 Lit and Comp – Journeys and Quests
- English 1 Confident Composition
Grade 8 (Summer): Writing for Middle School (alternates content each year, may be taken twice)
Grade 8
- English 2 Lit and Comp – Mysteries and Missions
- English 2 Lit and Comp – Uncommon Valor
- English 2 Confident Composition
Grade 9 (Summer): Writing for Early High School
Grade 9
- English 3 Lit Analysis and Composition – Intrigue and Illusion
- English 3 Lit Analysis and Composition – Justice and Journeys
- English 3 Confident Composition
Grades 10-12 (Summer): 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 – Style and Rhetoric
- 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 Composition
- 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
- Children’s Lit Analysis and Composition
- Creative Writing
- Holocaust History Through Lit and Film
- Works of C.S. Lewis
Grades 11-12
- College Creative Writing
- 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 impossible to study one well without the other.
- TPS offers a series of integrated Literature and History courses from elementary through upper high school.
- At the high school level, each integrated course is a complete History honors credit plus a complete English Language Arts honors credit, so the integrated course list for two separate Honors credits (one History and one English) on the transcript.
- We also offer 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 (Honors)
- Ancient (Bible World) History, Lit, and Comp (Honors)
- Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation History, Lit, and Comp (Honors)
- Modern History, Lit, and Comp (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 “classics” (“Great Books”) program that studies western history, literature, and art from ancient to contemporary historical periods.
- Four (4) live interactive classes each week, including periodic “round table” discussions
- Two-year curriculum (enroll one year at a time)
- 24 college credits (Freshman Comp 1 and 2, World Lit 1 and 2, Western History 1 and 2, Contemporary History, Art Appreciation)
- Six high school credits (Western Lit and Comp 1, Western Lit and Comp 2, Western History, Contemporary World History, Art History, Western Worldviews)
- Content integration allows for considerably lower total workload than each subject taken separately
- Grades 10 and up
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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