This one-week intensive class is for students eager to develop the writing skills they’ll need for high school, college and beyond. The course is devoted to teaching students how to parse literary and historical documents, understand the basics of argument structure, and apply these lessons to their own essays. Each session, we’ll discuss a challenging text, focusing both on how to analyze the document itself and how the author’s rhetorical choices affect our reading experience. Each class will also include a 20-30 minute “Zoom break” where students will complete an in-class assignment based off of the day’s reading and discussion. For homework, students will be expected to revise in-class assignments and read an excerpt, essay, poem or story for the following session.