Cottage Class Updates Jan 1, 2014

UPDATE: Training For Triumph/Character Ink Classes-Spring 2014  

Please call Ray ASAP if you would like to add students to any classes listed
(260.597.7415 or 260.450.7063). Also please note that Tuesday classes at
First Assembly are no longer being offered; many of those classes will be in
Ossian and Leo (as well as another city/county). Also note that there are other
changes on Monday, including the addition of Elementary/Middle School speech
(which has not been offered in FW for years).                              

                                                                       

Offered Mondays in FW @ First Assembly of God (on Washington Center Road)
CQLA C upper               (8:30 - 11:00)            10th-12th grade
($15/wk plus book)



Couple spots open  CQLA B                  (11:00 - 1:30)
6th-9th grade       ($15/wk plus book)

                       

Couple spots open: CQLA C  lower              (8:30 - 11:00)
8th-10th grade ($15/wk plus book)



CQLA A                  (11:00 - 1:30)                4th-6th grade  ($15/wk
plus book)

           

SPOTS OPEN--NEW!!! Elem / Middle School Speech                  (1:30 - 3:00)
4th-8 th grade ($10/wk plus book)

           

CQLA C  middle              (8:30 - 11:00)             9th-11th grade
($15/wk plus book)



Chemistry               (11:00 - 12:30)            9th-12th grade
($10/wk plus book)



Biology               (12:30 - 2:00)            8th-11th grade     ($10/wk
plus book)



Couple spots open:  High School Research Reports             (2:00 - 3:30)
10th-12th grade            ($10/wk plus book)

                                                                       

                                                                       

                                                                       

Offered Wednesdays in Ossian @ our home (at 6456 E US 224, Craigville, IN)
CQLA C                 (8:00 - 10:30)             9th-12th grade  
($15/wk plus book)

           

Biology               (10:30 - 12:00)             8th-11th grade   
 ($10/wk plus book)

           

Chemistry               (12:00 - 1:30)             9th-12th grade
($10/wk plus book)



SPOTS OPEN-YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS! Apologetics              
(1:30 -3:00)            7th-12th grade     ($10/wk plus book)



Couple spots open: Modern World  History                             
 (3:00- 4:30)                                7th-12th grade ($10/wk plus book)



CQLA B                  (8:00 - 10:30)                5th-9th grade
($15/wk plus book)

           

Couple spots open: High School Research Reports
(10:30 - 12:00)                              10th-12th grade
($10/wk plus book)



                       



                                                                       

Offered Thursdays in Leo @ Reimchisel's home (at 14616 Leo Road)

Couple spots open: Literary Analysis - Set A         (9:00-10:30)  8th-12th
($10/wk plus book)

           

Couple spots open: HS Creative Writing                    (10:30-12:00)
8th-12th  ($10/wk plus book)

           

Couple spots open: Modern World History                    (12:00-1:30)
7th-12th    ($10/wk plus book)

           

Couple spots open: Economics
(1:30-3:00)  7th-12th     ($10/wk plus book)



SPOTS OPEN-YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THIS! Apologetics
(3:00 - 4:30)                       7th-12th   ($10/wk plus book)

Spring 2014 Character Ink (Training for Triumph) Class Information and Registration

Spring 2014 Character Ink (Training for Triumph) Class Info and Links

All classes for Spring Semester (January through April/May) are listed below with their Description Sheets and Registration Forms. 

If you want to add a student to a two-semester class (all CQLA/language arts and sciences), please call Ray to inquire about space in the class and pre-requisites/placement (260-450-7063 or 260-597-7415). One semester classes currently have at least a little space in each one, so just send in forms for those unless you have placement questions.

Returning CQLA and science students should email us to let us know you are continuing the second semester (no forms necessary for returning students in those courses): r.reish@mchsi.com .

Note that there are changes from the published forms in the summer issue of the FWAHS "Homemade News." Please use forms below rather than old forms.


CI Class Registration Master Spring 2014--All Days/All Locations At-a-Glancehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgYmplMDhTay1hSUk/edit?usp=sharing

Composition Classes---Creative Writing, General Composition, Research Reports, and Essays Only-- for grades four through twelve (writing levels) available all four days/locations for Spring 2014!

CI/TFT Class Descriptions for Fort Wayne (First Assembly), Monday-- Spring 2014https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgOE1wZDlwZXUtT2c/edit?usp=sharing

CI/TFT Class Registration for Fort Wayne (First Assembly),  Monday--Spring 2014 https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgejByTDUwQldTd0E/edit?usp=sharing

Ray Working on Lesson Preparations for Chemistry and Biology
These are available on Mondays (in Fort Wayne) and Wednesdays (near Ossian)

CI/TFT Class Descriptions for Fort Wayne (First Assembly),  Tuesday-- Spring 2014https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgRGZ6d1ZjNzBwTlU/edit?usp=sharing

CI/TFT Class Registration Forms for Fort Wayne (First Assembly),  Tuesday-- Spring 2014https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgU1pIek1TMFhxRWc/edit?usp=sharing

Students engage in lively discussions in many of Joshua's classes, including literature, world history, US history, economics, government, apologetics, speech, and debate

CI/TFT Class Descriptions for  Ossian (our home), Wednesday--Spring 2014  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgeXZEdFpfcF83Q1U/edit?usp=sharing

CI/TFT Class Registration Form for Ossian (our home), Wednesday-- Spring 2014https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgbHVuNFR5UVo0c1E/edit?usp=sharing

Complete Language Arts Classes Using "Character Quality Language Arts" for second through twelfth grade students at two locations (Mondays in Fort Wayne and Wednesdays near Ossian)

CI/TFT Class Descriptions for Leo, Indiana, Thursday--Spring 2014https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgS0t2OGJHdTRJU3c/edit?usp=sharing

CI/TFT Class Registration Form for Leo, Indiana,  Thursday--Spring 2014https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4FVVZ4tdWpgS1ZIT293aE9sejg/edit?usp=sharing

Thursday classes in Leo, Indiana are held second semester only! Don't miss it!

Think Fast Grammar Quiz Answer Key

image from wordmr.

If you have a newer edition of CQLA, you likely have weekly quizzes called "Think Fast Grammar Quiz." When we created these, we originally thought that parents would use the Grammar Cards (available in Level B and C books and in the Teacher's Guide) to grade their students' quizzes.

Then we began teaching/testing the editions that contain these quizzes and discovered that it wasn't as easy as we had previously thought to just use the Grammar Cards to check the quizzes--and to help your student categorize and study the grammar words.

So we created the document below to be used both as an Answer Key as well as a study guide for the Think Fast Grammar Quiz. It will be in a future edition of the Teacher's Guide, and when our new website is done this fall, it will be available there as well. In the meantime, we are emailing the document to anyone who calls or emails us asking for it--and we are putting it here at the blog in the hopes that word will get out and parents will find it.

We use it to grade our testing students' quizzes, but we also use it in the following way:

1. We have the student fill in as much of each part of the quiz as he or she can---then highlight the line in which he left off on his own. Then we have him look in the AK to find more and finish filling in the lines with the ones from the AK. This shows us what he already knows and what he had to look up, but it also helps him to learn more of them by writing them out as he looks them up in the AK.

2. We also assign portions of the AK for homework. For example, we will have all students study the section in the AK that has opposite prepositions or prepositions that begin with B, etc. This makes the AK into a sort of Study Guide for the student and has really helped them learn the words in categories as opposed to long lists of them.


Please share this post with fellow CQLA users so that we can get the word out that there is a lengthy, detailed, helpful Answer Key for the Think Fast Grammar Quiz! ;)



https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9s1gDz0XKhwVW9YcDRpSHpHZU0/edit?usp=sharing

Character Ink Class Additions for Tuesdays in Fort Wayne--Fall Semester 2013

Character Ink (formerly Training for Triumph) will be adding another day of classes in Fort Wayne if there is enough interest in the classes being offered.
 
Classes will be held for the first semester of this school year (with the potential of another set of offerings for the second semester) at First Assembly of God on Washington Center Road on Tuesdays. Please contact us quickly if you are interested in these classes. (Call Ray at 260-597-7415 or 260-450-7063. He will call you back quickly.)
 
Students will be invoiced monthly and will receive their first invoice on the first class day.
 
Note that a couple of these classes are also offered on Mondays at First Assembly, so if you would like to change to Tuesdays, contact us immediately, so we can be sure we have enough students for both days for those classes. 

 
TUESDAY Class Offerings at First Assembly
 
8:30-10:00 General Composition (a “remediation” type course for junior high and high school, though we will not call it that...it will be called General Composition). 7th through 12th grade students who have not written a lot of six paragraph plus essays and reports. We will use our Jump Start comp book for these grades, and students will move from a couple of paragraphs to many paragraphs quickly with step-by-step help. Cost is $10 per week and $32 for the book for the semester.
 
 
10:00-11:30 High School Essay/SAT Essay. We will begin with expository essays and five paragraph non-timed essays and move into all of the intricacies of writing a timed essay (whether for the SAT/ACT or for contests or college admissions). This class is for 9th through 12th graders who have already written essays, research reports, and stories in other contexts. We will use Donna and Joshua’s new 350-page book, “The SAT Essay and Other Timed Writing.” Cost is $10 per week and $32 for the book for the semester.
 
 
11:30-2:30 Junior High and High School Speech and Debate. This class is a three hour course that teaches both public speaking and debate. Students love this class and come out able to speak in many contexts with ease. It is fun, fast-paced, and filled with opportunities to speak before the group, starting out with “things you know.” This is our longest-running class. We have literally taught hundreds of kids in FW to give speeches, do research for debate, and debate. This class is for twelve year olds through seniors in high school. Cost is only $10 per week and $25 for the non-consumable book (which students in the same family may share).
 
2:30-4:00 Ancient History. This class has been extremely popular down in our learning center near Ossian as well as in our second semester Leo/Grabill classes! Taught by Joshua Reish, who tested out of his entire history degree except for two classes for which there were no test available, this class has hundreds of teaching slides that engage students in each time period and event of history. Your student will learn and love history after hearing and seeing Joshua’s love for it! This is for seventh through twelfth graders who can read at a high school level and may be counted towards one semester of World History. (The second semester of this class, though not mandatory, will be offered in Leo and Ossian during the winter.) Cost is reduced in order to build up students in our history courses in FW for the first time: $6 per week and $6/month for handouts. (No book is needed as Joshua writes all of his own materials and gives these throughout the semester.)
 
 
 
Also, please note that we have a little space in a few classes on other days/locations:
 
MONDAYS at First Assembly: 
 
CQLA Level B (11:00-1:30)
 
CQLA Level A (11:00 - 1:30)
 
Literature for high school  (12:30 - 2:00)
 
 
 
WEDNESDAYS near Ossian:  
 
CQLA Level A (12:00 - 1:30)
 
Literature for high school  (1:30-3:00)
 
High School/SAT Essay (10:30-12:00)
 
Biology (10:30 - 12:00)
 
Ancient History (3:00 - 4:30)
 
 
Monday and Wednesday registration forms and schedules are available at http://characterink.blogspot.com/2013/04/cottage-classes-fall-2013-spring-2014.html
 
 
 
 
   

TFT Cottage Classes Second Semester

Training for Triumph (soon to become Character Ink) has posted Cottage Classes for all three locations for second semester. Please call with new registrants ASAP as soon classes will be dropped or added according to registration at this time.

Summaries of each location are provided below.  Feel free to call us with questions. The information about each class and the registration form are both available at our website: http://www.tfths.com/classes.php

Craigville/Ossian Wednesday Classes

CQLA Upper C (9^th -12^th grades) 8:00-10:30

CQLA Beginning C (8^th-10^th grades)  8:00-10:30

CQLA Level B (5^th-8^th grades) 10:30-1:00

NEWLY ADDED! CQLA Pre A/Beginning A (new class starting if enough students; 2^nd-3rd) 10:30-1:00

Biology (7^th-10^th; nearly full) 10:30-12:00

NEWLY ADDED! High School Essay/SAT Essay (8^th-12^th) (last four weeks will be SAT) 12:00-1:30

American History II (7^th through 12^th grade—new students are welcome) 1:30-3:00

NEWLY ADDED! Junior High/Beginning High School Remediation Composition (7^th-12^th grades) (will not be called that in class) 1:00-2:30

Economics (7^th-12^th grades) 3:00-4:30

First Assembly/FW Location Monday Classes

CQLA Level B (6^th-9^th grades)   8:30-11:30

CQLA Level C (9^th-12^th  grades) 8:30-11:30

Biology (8^th-11^thgrades)  10:00-11:30

Biology (8^th-11^th grades) 11:30-1:00

NEW BOOK! High School Creative Writing (7^th-12^tth grades) 11:30-1:00

CQLA Level A (grades 4^th-6^th) 1:00-3:30

NEWLY ADDED! Junior High/Beginning High School Remediation Composition (grades 7^th -12^th) (will not be called that in class) 1:00-2:30

NEWLY ADDED! High School Five Research Reports (grades 10^th-12^th) (newly added; need at least four students) 1:00-2:30

Leo, IN Location Thursday Classes

Literary Analysis Set B (grades 8^th-12^th) 9:00-10:30

Speech and Debate (grades 7^th-12^th) (if enough students) 9:00-12:00

Beginning Creative Writing (4^th-7^th grades) 10:30-12:00

HS Essay/SAT (SAT last four weeks) (8^th through 12^th) 10:30-12:00

American History II (7^th through 12^th grades) 12:00-1:30

NEWLY ADDED! Middle School/Jr High Comp—MC 6 I (5^th through 7^th grades) 12:00-1:30

US Government (7^th through 12^th) 1:30-3:00

Junior High Research Reports (6^th-9^th grades) 3:00-4:30