Description
Dragons, dwarfs, and donkeys, oh my. Don the suit of armor; the class is going to Aslan’s country.
Ink Masters in Training is the online middle school composition class for the student who has finished a first writing course and is ready for mature technique. Over the year students read the final four novels of The Chronicles of Narnia and work through the Institute for Excellence in Writing Structure and Style method: key word outlines as prewriting, taking notes, retelling narrative stories, summarizing references, writing from pictures, and composing essays.
Weekly live sessions mix composition concepts and grammar with literary analysis of the Narnia texts, and students write every week, draft creatively, and learn to evaluate and proofread their own work rather than waiting for someone else to catch the errors.
Beth Purcell is the reason this class has the reputation it does. She greets every student by name at the door of the Zoom room, treats no question as a silly one, and makes an IEW class feel like an adventure instead of a formula.
Level B is the step up: harder structures, longer pieces, more independence.
Beth Purcell, True North’s Humanities Department Chair, is an IEW-certified writing instructor with an English degree from the University of South Carolina.
“This class was cool. My favorite part about class was playing games, like Kahoot and MadLibs. The games were a fun highlight to class time, and they helped to make me think. I learned how to get better with my writing. My mom thought I needed to improve my writing skills, so she signed me up for this class. In this class, I wrote and typed many paragraphs and even some short essays. I especially liked hearing Bible verses. It was very stressful to write and type paragraphs on such a short timeframe. I preferred the weeks where I could have smaller chunks of the larger assignments, versus having to write a full five-paragraph essay all in one week. I feel that my writing is better than it was at the beginning of the class.”
— Levi K.
A look inside this class
Class details
– Teacher: Beth Purcell
– Day and time: Tuesdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. CST
– Term: full year, 2027-28 school year
– Grades: 6-9
– Prerequisites: Writers in the Making Level A, or another IEW writing class
– Materials: Following Narnia Volume 2: Aslan’s Country (Student Book only). The Narnia novels themselves are optional for supplemental reading
– Live, small-group class on Zoom
Step through the wardrobe with us. True North Academy is Cognia-accredited, and grading and transcripts are taken care of.
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