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AP® English Language and Composition (Intensive, NCAA Approved)
Learn to write college-level essays, expand your vocabulary, and prepare to take the Advanced Placement® Exam in English Language and Composition during this intensive 12-week course. We’ll study a ...
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June 17, 2024
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AP® English Language and Composition (NCAA Approved)
Learn to write college-level essays, expand your vocabulary, and prepare to take the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition during this 30-week course. We’ll study a variety of ...
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September 9, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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Art Meets Science: Literature
In this creative writing course, we’ll explore poetry, fiction, drama, and non-literary works that use science as inspiration. After reading scientific poems, science fiction short stories, and a play ...
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June 17, 2024
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Art Meets Science: Nonfiction
In this course, we’ll read works inspired by science and art and use them as models to write and revise personal essays that explore the genre of nonfiction. You’ll reflect on personal experiences ...
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June 17, 2024
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Building Blocks
Start building your communication superpowers by learning just how cool words and language can be! In this course you will study excerpts from classic stories like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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Crafting Fiction (NCAA Approved)
Learn to master the core elements of fiction writing, such as plot, theme, dialogue, and character development by reading and analyzing short works of fiction and writing your own. Assignments are ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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Crafting Poetry (NCAA Approved)
An introduction to poetry and poetic concepts, this course covers musical aspects of poetry, the patterns and conventions of sound, and the effects they have on readers. Imagery in poems is also ...
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June 17, 2024
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Crafting the Essay - Workshop (NCAA Approved)
Bring your experiences to life on the page in this personal essay course. Through 10 assignments, we will experiment with different essay forms to describe scenes, illustrate conflicts, narrate events ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Crafting the Essay: Individually-Paced Format
Bring your experiences to life on the page in this personal essay course. Through 10 assignments, we’ll experiment with different essay formats to describe scenes, illustrate conflicts, narrate events ...
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Fantasy Worldbuilding
What draws audiences into the settings of their favorite fantasy worlds? What makes these otherwise mythical places feel like real locations in readers’ minds? In this course, we’ll use applications ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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From Structure to Style (NCAA Approved)
Develop your writing style and study advanced English mechanics in this rigorous grammar course. Guided by a college-level textbook and multicultural reading excerpts, you will deepen your ...
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June 17, 2024
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Imagination Workshop
Imaginative writing is a powerful tool. As authors, our written pieces can make someone laugh, change their mind, or even help them better understand the world. How can you do this in just a page, a ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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Master Class I: Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a published author? In this course, you’ll learn the steps from prewriting all the way to publication, and explore strategies for composing, critiquing ...
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September 9, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Master Class II: Writing, Editing, and Publishing
Get a taste of the publishing world by working with your classmates to create, edit, and publish Lexophilia , CTY’s student literary magazine! Building on the skills you learned in Master Class I ...
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Scare Tactics: Elements of Fear in Literature and Film
When Lon Chaney's mask first came off in the silent-film version of The Phantom of the Opera , some viewers were reportedly so frightened by the actor's ghoulish makeup that they fainted in the ...
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June 17, 2024
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Storytelling Through Art, Film, and Media
Photography, video games, short films—these are all elements of visual storytelling that are increasingly popular ways to express an idea, theme, or story in today’s digital world. This hands-on ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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The Process of Writing – Workshop
This course explores the craft of writing, including techniques like brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revision that effective writers use across multiple genres. You will write a family ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
The Process of Writing: Individually-Paced Format
This course explores the craft of writing, including techniques like brainstorming, outlining, drafting, and revision that effective writers use across multiple genres. You will write a family ...
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Through the Lens
When you look at a photograph, what do you see? You find photographs everywhere—in journalism, art, family albums, and social media. What stories do they tell? Explore the ways that photographs can ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Whodunit?: The Art of Crafting Mystery Stories
For generations, great mysteries have captivated readers with compelling characters and suspenseful storytelling punctuated by intriguing, unconventional sleuths like Eve Titus’s Basil of Baker Street ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
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Worldbuilding
Fictional worlds often stick with us even longer than the stories that are set within them. They can be havens or nightmares, futuristic glimpses of what our world could be, or looking-glass critiques ...
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June 17, 2024
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Writing About Art and Visual Design
Do you have a flair for design, and an eye for what makes a scene or image visually effective? In this course, you will explore historically significant and modern works of visual design—including ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Writing Analysis and Persuasion – Workshop (NCAA Approved)
Want to strengthen your ability to persuade an audience? In this course, you’ll read critical and literary texts that will sharpen your ability to think and write critically about yourself and the ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Writing Analysis and Persuasion: Individually-Paced Format
Strengthen your ability to persuade an audience by reading critical and literary texts that sharpen your proficiency to think and write critically about yourself and the world around you. You’ll write ...
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Writing for an Audience – Workshop
In this course, you will use the drafting and revision skills you learned in The Process of Writing to practice clearly communicating your ideas to an audience. You will reflect on your relationship ...
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June 17, 2024
- Individually Paced
- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Writing for an Audience: Individually-Paced Format
In this course, you will use the drafting and revision skills you learned in The Process of Writing to practice clearly communicating your ideas to an audience. You will reflect on your relationship ...
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Adult Readers: A Study of Sherlock
Journey to Victorian England, where mysterious figures and deceptive disguises abound on and around Baker Street. You’ll join iconic detective Sherlock Holmes and his trusty assistant, Dr. Watson, as ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Adult Readers: Dangerous Games and Rebellions
In this course, we’ll explore futuristic dystopian worlds where courageous young heroes must step up to fight against propaganda, oppression, and violence. While reading thought-provoking novels and ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Adult Readers: Monsters, Magic, and Mayhem
This course will transport you to fantastical worlds where monsters and magic cause all sorts of mayhem. We’ll follow teen protagonists’ journeys through magical lands inspired by diverse, real-world ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Ancient Egypt Rediscovered
Ancient Egypt fell over 2,000 years ago, yet the world is still fascinated by its stories. In this course, you will examine the history of this great civilization, its myths, and several pieces of ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Dragon Tales
For centuries, readers have been charmed and enchanted by stories about dragons. This course lets you join in the fun by reading novels set in mythical lands and secret mountain caves where fiery ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Good Dogs
What can make a dog a most trusted friend? How do dogs build unbreakable bonds with their owners? What circumstances test these bonds? In this course, we will read four books exploring the unique ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Greek Myths Revisited
In this course, you will become familiar with traditional Greek myths and examine how modern authors draw upon Greek sources to create exciting new adventures. Along the way, you will learn critical ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: In Search Of
Embark on a profound journey through space, time, and the human spirit as you consider what it means to be “in search of” one’s place in the world. Reading a mixture of fiction and nonfiction, you ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Magical Life Lessons
Take an adventure, experience the joys and pitfalls of fantastical new abilities, and encounter the transforming power of magical life lessons. In this course, you will read four novels about kids who ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Mystery Stories
Become an investigator and search for clues within each story, then try to solve the puzzle! In this course, you and your classmates/fellow detectives will journey to 19th century London with Sherlock ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Quests and Challenges
In this course, you will follow the young protagonists of three novels as they use their wits, courage, and brains to complete elaborate missions. You will summarize, make inferences, determine ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Robot Encounters
How much is too much technology? What would the world be like if it were run by artificial intelligence? In this course, you’ll read three novels set in worlds where artificial intelligence and robots ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: The Space Race - Nonfiction
Embark on a journey through the history and science of space exploration! In this course, you’ll read all about the "Space Race"—the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be ...
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June 17, 2024
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- CTY-Level
- Language Arts
Young Readers Series: Wild Things
Who are the real wild things—animals or humans? Read the books, then you decide. In this course you will read four books about enchanting animals and the humans who love them. You will experience ...
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June 17, 2024