USTAR Scholastic Writing Contest PREP Program
This program focuses on the ten writing categories students will compete in.
Program length: 25 lessons Per Session, 1 hour per lesson
Highlight: Sessions can be repeated for students to learn more than one Scholastic writing categories!
How will Ustar help you?
★ highly experienced advanced writing teachers
★ Meticulously graded assignment
★ The real-world medal winner essay studies
★ Step-by-step teacher guidance
★ Detailed explanations for every essay and writing tips
Learning Pace: Total of 25 lessons for each session
Please note: for optimal learning outcomes, we combine teachers’ feedback and students’ personal writing interest to finalize what writing category students will be working on.
L1: Dramatic Script:
Teacher breaks down rubrics of dramatic script and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several practice dramatic scripts.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of dramatic script for students to complete.
L2: Poetry:
Teacher breaks down rubrics of poetry and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several practice poetries.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of poetry for students to complete.
L3: short story:
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of short story and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several short story practice.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of short story for students to complete.
L4: Humor:
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of humor and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several humor practice.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of humor for students to complete.
L5: Science fiction :
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of Science fiction and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Science fiction practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Science fiction for students to complete.
L6: fantasy :
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of fantasy and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several fantasy practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of fantasy for students to complete.
L7: Personal essay:
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of Personal essays and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Personal essay practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Personal essay for students to complete.
L8: memoir:
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of memoir and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several memoir practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of memoir for students to complete.
L9: Journalism
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of Journalism and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Journalism practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Journalism for students to complete.
L10: Flash Fiction
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of Flash Fiction and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Flash Fiction practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Flash Fiction for students to complete.
L11: Critical Essay PART I
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of Critical Essay and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Critical Essay practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Critical Essay for students to complete.
L12: Critical Essay PART II
Teacher continues explaining the rubrics of Critical Essay and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Critical Essay practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Critical Essay for students to complete.
L13: Critical Essay PART III
Teacher continues explaining the rubrics of Critical Essay and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Critical Essay practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Critical Essay for students to complete.
L14: Novel writing PART I
Teacher breaks down the rubrics of Novel writing and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Novel writing practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Novel writing for students to complete.
L15: Novel writing PART II
Teacher continues explaining the rubrics of Novel writing and goes over award winning writings.
Classwork: Teacher prompts students to write several Novel writing practices.
Homework: Teacher assigns a type of Novel writing for students to complete.
L16: Pick your best writing category
Note: Teacher gives feedback on all the writing categories students have practiced and suggests one to work on as the potential competing essay.
Classwork: Focused training on the settled category. (topic, ideas)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 1.
L17: working with words (nouns, verbs, adjectives)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 2.
L18: working with words (adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 3.
L19: working with sentences (sentence styles, combining sentences,sentence problems)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 4.
L20: working with paragraphs (parts of paragraphs, organization)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 5.
L21: Proofreading (punctuations,mechanics)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 6.
L22: Proofreading (using the right words,spelling)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 7.
L23: Proofreading (punctuations,mechanics)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 8.
L24: Proofreading (parts of speech)
Homework: Teacher assigns settled category draft 9
L25: Finalizing (adding/deleting final thoughts,teacher thoroughly go through draft 9 and gives final advice and edits) OFFLINE
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