Summer is approaching and Cicero’s Academy™ is heating up.
You asked for it and now we are announcing our summer schedule of workshops. Check here to find overviews and timing for a series of workshops: Developing the Intermediate Writer, Introduction to Public Speaking, Essay Writing/Introduction to Persuasion, Essay Writing for the College-Bound Student, and a set of one-day workshops on specific aspects of writing. We’re excited about the schedule and hope to see you. If the timing of the workshops does not quite fit, we can refashion them as a tutoring schedule to fit your life.
Cicero’s Academy™ helps students develop rhetorical skills—writing an essay, persuading an audience, developing an idea—once they have mastered the mechanics of writing such as punctuation, grammar, subject-verb-object construction and other core skills. As students develop, their need to communicate ideas requires more than just understanding certain rules. They need to understand how to use information and stimulate an audience. They learn that through experience, feedback and the fun of working with ideas.
Building on Success
This is the second summer we have offered the Essay Writing for the College Bound workshop. We appreciate the students that kept us informed of their achievements in the SAT, ACT and AP exams as well as the college application essay. Lots of hard work paid off for several students.
Yet, it starts younger than that.
We think of communication as a life skill. Students spend a lot of time responding to assignments when they write or speak. We encourage them to go beyond just regurgitating information. When the boss asks for an opinion about something, the boss wants more than just a list of facts. Students are encouraged to do something with the information they have, craft a view of the world that is their own.
The Developing the Intermediate Writer workshop takes students from roughly 5th grade through middle school and introduces them to the 5-paragraph essay format. Our Essay Writing and Introduction to Persuasion workshop teaches the high school student how to use information, perform a literary analysis and persuade an audience their view of the world is valid. The Introduction to Public Speaking workshop applies the same skills to making speeches.
We will focus on the building blocks of a great essay in the 1-day workshops. Students might be a little bleary-eyed after a few hours of writing just introductions to essays, but they will understand what makes a great essay at the end of the day.
See you this summer.