Honors classes in grade 9 - summer writing prep?

MYOS1634
Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:41:14 +0000

Check with the high school: he’ll likely have a reading list from which he’ll select two or three with essays to turn in on the first day of class. Most of the books are well written and thought provoking.
You could get him used to keeping a Summer log to bury somewhere and open when he leaves for college - a story of himself for his future self. Writing everyday about what he wants to write about, with no grammar checks, will teach him a lot - from the quiet of writing and thinking to the repeated habit. When you write a lot, like for anything, you get better at it.
A good novel is 79 squares: 8th grade proto delinquent spends time with old, recently released convict who assigns him one hour each day in a 1square foot area of his garden, looking.