Tutoring Services
Literature Tutor
Write and Read Effectively
630.890.9351
A tutor can help. High school and college both require a lot of reading and writing. Your ACT and SAT scores should be excellent. How do you study? Sometimes it is hard to keep up. We can help. Serving NE suburban Atlanta and western suburban Chicago, and everywhere Zoom reaches.
Why a tutor? Do you want a guided tour through great literature, analyzing it as you go? Contact us now.
Writing well and understanding what you’ve read is imperative to success. Let’s explore what you need to be better at both.
Fiction and Poetry Tutor
- What are Hemingway, Steinbeck, Twain, Lee, Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Sandburg (etc.) really saying?
- Why did Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
- How can I understand this complex book?
- Cram Sessions– Learn one book quickly.
We’ll walk through books together. You’ll learn the facts and the nuances along the way. Maybe we’ll argue who is a better writer: Paul McCartney or John Lennon. Or Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift?
Writing Tutor
- How do you best organize an essay?
- What’s rhetoric and how do we write it?
- What’s a villanelle? Sonnet? Limerick? Free verse vs blank verse?
- Flash fiction, short story, novella, novel?
- When should you have a subplot?
NaNoWrimo
Working on a NaNoWriMo novel? Let’s do it. If you’re stuck, we’ll help you structure the finish. If you are editing, we’ll help you prioritize and review.
Adult Learning, Book Clubs, and Executive Communications
We help professionals too. If you are an executive looking to improve your written and spoken communications skills, let’s take. We will discuss a personalized plan to help you lead.
Do you want to learn how to write more effectively, through understanding and writing fiction and poetry? We are available for private and small group teaching of literature and writing. Or, how about your book club?
Home schoolers, private school and public school students are all welcome.
Serving Gwinnett County, metro-Atlanta, Chicago, and virtual.
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Using Literature to Teach Rhetoric
When we teach rhetoric, we do so by using great literature. Often, this involves a historical document. It makes sense to use Martin Luther King Jr.’s "Letter from Birmingham Jail”, for example. MLK employed various rhetorical techniques to persuade fellow Christian...
What I’m Reading: Flies and Cuckoos
What are you reading? I read a lot. Sometimes, it goes with the job. Gotta keep sharp. Sometimes, what I read is a product of curiosity. Since my job is a mix of teaching various levels of students, fiction and poetry writing, and writing speeches, this covers a lot...
Lloyd Jones, Mr. Pip
But you know, Matilda, you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in...
Book Club Leader
Do you need a book club leader? I can help. My role is part-teacher, part-tour guide and part-facilitator. My role is less of a participant as it is teacher/moderator. That's a book club leader does. For example, if going through a classic like Ernest Hemingway's The...
What We Offer
Subject Tutoring
Focus on general fiction, or get specific. Learn poetry, and what makes a good poem.
Fiction
English & Literature
Speech Writing and Delivery
Writing Help
When you need coaching through writing that essay, story, speech, or poem, we can help.
Creative Writing - Fiction
Creative Writing - Poetry
Essays - Logic and Structure
Clubs
For HS/college students, adult book discussion, and homeschoolers adding to their learning.
Study Groups
Book Clubs
NaNoWriMo
Learn From The Comfort of Home!
Online Tutoring
COVID-19 reminded us we can learn from home. Wherever you are in the world, we can help.