Write from the Heart’s annual classes are 30-week, full-credit courses built around daily classroom engagement, peer interaction, and individualized coaching. Students write, discuss, and revise inside an active online classroom modeled after college-level learning, guided by an experienced writing coach who is present every day.
Composition — For students building core writing skills. Covers grammar, multiple writing styles, independent short story and novel reading, poetry, and research. Classes are placed by ability, not grade.
Literature & Composition – Literature and writing taught together in a single, full-credit English course. Organized by literary movement, guided by daily coach engagement.
AP® English – Two AP® exams. One course. One year. College Board approved. Our AP® English class prepares students for both the AP® Language and AP® Literature exams in a single year – without doubling the workload. Same intensity as any AP® English course. Twice the opportunity.
Write To Publish – Ready to become a published author? Our Write to Publish annual classes take students from first draft to finished book.
Prepare for both AP® exams in a single College Board-approved course. Our students outperform the national average every year in both overall pass rate and perfect scores.
We have over 15 years of proven AP® success with students nearly doubling the national pass and perfect score averages for both AP® Lang & Lit.
AP® is a registered trademark of the College Board, which has given this course AP Course Audit approval in both Lit. and Lang.
Data: Student-reported scores (2010–2024) compared to College Board published score distributions.
Our composition sequence builds strong writers step by step. Students develop structure, analytical thinking, and clarity through consistent practice, revision, and guided feedback.
Our Composition classes provide comprehensive writing and grammar instruction — the core of any English Language Arts program. Throughout the year, students also engage with:
Short Fiction — Three short stories of their choice from a curated list
Poetry — A full poetry writing unit with approximately 15 published poems as models
Novel — Read independently, with a written book review
Nonfiction — A research project requiring multiple sources
For many families, this combination of intensive writing instruction, grammar mastery, and engagement with fiction, poetry, and nonfiction across the year constitutes a full ELA credit. For families who want a dedicated literature discussion component alongside composition, our Literature & Composition classes combine both in a single course.
Our composition courses are numbered by level, not by grade — so your student lands where they’ll be appropriately challenged and supported, regardless of age. A strong 6th-grade writer and a developing 8th-grade writer might both start in 101B, and that’s by design. The grade ranges listed below show the typical ages in each class, but our free placement quiz (under 5 minutes) will recommend the right starting point for your student.
Each Literature & Composition course is a complete, full-credit English class – literature and writing taught together, with daily coach engagement and peer interaction.
We teach literature by movement, not by national origin — because the greatest literary movements crossed borders. British and American writers were often responding to the same ideas at the same time, and teaching them together gives students the historical context that makes the literature come alive.
All three courses include both reading and writing instruction as a single, full-credit English class.
Literature 201: Renaissance to Romanticism — Shakespeare, Romantic-era poetry, Gothic fiction (the Brontës, Poe), and early American literature (Hawthorne, Cooper). Covers major British and American authors from the 1600s through the mid-1800s.
Literature 202: Modern World — Victorian literature (Dickens, Eliot, Hardy), American Realism and Regionalism (Twain, Wharton, Cather), and early 20th-century voices (Woolf, Walker, Fitzgerald). Covers British and American literature from the mid-1800s through the modern era.
Literature 301: World Literature — Ancient and medieval texts (Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Beowulf, Canterbury Tales) alongside Russian, French, Scandinavian, and African literature (Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Ibsen, Achebe). A global scope that goes beyond the British and American canon.
For your transcript: Families who complete Literature 201 and 202 have covered a thorough survey of both British and American literature. Literature 301 provides dedicated World Literature and Classical Literature coverage. Together, the three courses give students a breadth of literary study that most programs spread across four or more separate classes.
Yes. Literature 201 leans more heavily toward British authors and Literature 202 leans more heavily toward American authors. Either course on its own covers a substantial survey of both traditions, but if you need separate transcript lines, 201 maps naturally to British Literature and 202 to American Literature. Students also choose their own independent reading novel and research project topics within each course’s time period, so families who want to emphasize one tradition over the other have the flexibility to do so.
Ready to become a published author? Our Write to Publish annual classes take students from first draft to finished book.
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