Grammar Essentials 

Being my favorite and most difficult class in college, Grammar, like Wheaties, is the breakfast of champions.  As every mother knows, a good breakfast is an essential prelude to a good day.  Similarly, this brief five-week course promises to be a jentacular launch into the prandial wonders of essay and other writing.  For those students who are ever-living under the dread shadow of the Phantom of Too-Little-Grammar-Knowledge, this class provides every writer with quick doses of the essential vitamins and minerals: Parts of Speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, etc.); Sentences and their Elements (phrases, clauses, etc.); and Punctuation (commas, semi-colons, parentheses, etc.). 

Details

This course will begin in the last full week of June  and run through the last week of July.  We will convene once a week on Thursday mornings at 8:00 a.m. for one hour and forty-five minutes (with a five-minute break).  This provides for five class meetings.  Exercises and (likely) some readings will be assigned during the week, but since it is a summer course, the load will be lighter than during the normal school year.  The course is designed for students of Junior High and High School age and is intended to be an overview and review. 

Text

We will use Harvey's Revised English Grammar as our primary text for this course.  This book comes highly recommended and has been a standard for over a century.  You may purchase the text at Amazon.

Cost

The cost of this tutorial is $110 per student.  There is a 20 % discount for the second student enrolled from the same family. 

Registration

To register, you may use my e-mail address tutor.alexandria@gmail.com and include the following:

     Re: "Registration for Grammar Essentials"

Name, Parents' Names, Address, Age, Year in School, phone number,  Background in Writing, How you heard about Alexandria, other experience in online tutorials, and an attached sample of a past essay.

Checks are made payable to Matthew Turnbull and a non-refundable deposit of $20 to reserve your seat is required by June 15th, the remainder is due the first week of class. The class is limited to 15 participants. 

Please send registration fees and tuition to:  Matthew Turnbull / Alexandria Tutorials / 248 Benton St./ Leavenworth, WA 98826

Software

We will be utilizing Webex for our conference software in our tutorials.  This is a free download and information about configuring your computer for the tutorial can be found on the New Student Page.

 As you have any questions about this tutorial or the tutorial service, please feel free to contact the tutor at polycarp65@verizon.net .