Community Provider Name

Pickavance Tutoring

About Me

I received my B.A. in English from Biola University, followed by a teaching credential from California State University Fullerton and a Texas Educator Certificate.  I taught Language Arts in California and Texas public schools for six years, and have been tutoring both Language Arts and history both privately and at ACA Tutoring for several years. I love sharing my love of books with high school and middle school students; other passions include music, the Chicago Cubs, and baking. 

Among my students, I try to foster a community of thoughtful and virtuous learners who grow in their skills in preparation for high school while thinking carefully and disagreeing kindly. 

About My Classes:

Next year I am offering a humanities class for 8th graders in Modern History. This class will expose your student to different viewpoints through reading and examining primary, secondary, and historian sources as well as fiction, biographies, and relevant classic literature. Students will engage in active learning through hands-on activities and map work. Rather than passively learning, your student will discover history like a historian. Students will sharpen their critical thinking skills through inquiry, analysis, logical reasoning, evaluation of historical events, and written and verbal communication. Students will understand the effect of geographical location on the story of humankind by making connections between geography and world events. 

8th grade fees

16-22 students $130 / month ($65 per class)

I am also offering a 9th grade English class. In this course, students will read and analyze both literary and informational texts. The course’s reading selections demonstrate ways to understand explicit and inferred meaning through textual evidence, central ideas and details that support them, and figurative language, and the effects word choice has on tone and mood, among other ideas and concepts.

As students read the selections in this course, they will practice ways to recognize textual evidence, identify themes and central ideas, make inferences, analyze word choice, and identify figurative and connotative language in a variety of texts. In addition, they will learn about basics in grammar, usage, and punctuation, including context clues and word functions, domain-specific language and dialect, parts of speech and figures of speech, and reference materials. In addition, they will learn the elements of writing so that they can plan, write, revise, and edit their own compositions, both narrative and literary. Through the lessons provided in this course, they will master techniques that will help them achieve a deeper appreciation of literary and informational texts.

Fee

$145 / month