Essay writing can be a tedious chore without the right skills to tackle it. Writing can be a challenge and many students groan when faced with this task. This class teaches the basics of essay writing in a clear, concise, step by step way. Using the Hamburger model, students will be guided into evaluating examples of paragraph and essay writing as well as writing their own paragraphs and essays.

This class is designed as an introduction to understanding poetry. If studying poetry is too complicated and you find it difficult to explain the ideas in poems, this class is a great place to start. We will uncover the ways poets use their writing to comment on life from their unique perspective.