Calling all seniors! Remember that the writing center is more than happy to tutor college essays and give advice on standardized test writing. If you are having trouble coming up with a subject for your essay feel free to stop in and we will help you brainstorm ideas. Hope to see you soon!

On Tuesday, several of our writing center tutors spent a delightful hour visiting with Mrs. Betty Djokoto, headmistress of Wesley Girls High School--a boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana.  She is visiting Berkeley as the guest of Mr. Johnson in order to establish an exchange between our schools.  Mrs. Djokoto is also interested in starting a writing center at her school, and we hope to be of help to her.  

Welcome Back to the Writing Center!

It’s that time of year!  Once again, Berkeley is bustling with activity across all three divisions.  The start of the school year brings new classes, new teachers, new lockers, new teams, and new friends.

However, with all the excitement of the new year comes homework, papers, and projects.  When you feel overwhelmed with a writing assignment or need an extra set of eyes to read over your work, the Writing Center is here to help!  Stop on by during any class period and our tutors will be happy to assist you.

This year, the Writing Center has a lot more planned than just writing tutorials.  Plans are already underway for several contests with fun prizes and, of course, Eat ‘N’ Speak!  Exciting things are happening with the Writing Center this school year, and you won’t want to miss them!

Thinking Ahead...

http://iwcancptw2014.com/call-for-proposals/

 

This year’s International Writing Centers Association/ National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing Joint Conference will place in Orlando! It will be at the magical location of Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort from October 30- November 1, 2013.

Since Orlando is not too far away, we’re hoping that we can increase Berkeley’s attendance from just the self-study interns and directors. Now is a great time to start coming up with ideas for proposals.

 

Statistics Galore

Wow! We currently have 609 tutorials completed for the year! Thanks to all of our tutors for their help, and for tutees for coming in. The Writing Center wanted to update you on the specifics of these tutorials. As you can see, the skills most addressed are content/ideas and style/word choice, which are neck and neck! Our clientele is mainly juniors, so we would love to encourage the other grade levels to come in for help. Analytical papers are the most popular papers tutored, followed closely by creative. Great job so far, keep up the hard work!

First Grader Tutorials

 As Writing Center Tutors, we have the privilege of tutoring first grade buddies. Before meeting our buddies, they sent us a letter telling us about them. We then sent a letter back, sharing a little about ourselves. After merely sending letters and pictures to each other, we were so excited to meet our friends. One day at lunch, we finally got to meet our friends and tutor them. Some tutors even got to return to their own first grade classrooms and visit their old Lower Division teachers. All in all, our lunch together was very enjoyable and we can't wait for next year!

The gangs all here! 

Vikram Nandyala and a buddy

Grant Watson tutors a friend

Amanda Montgomery and Kelsey Serraneau
pose with a buddy

Davis Straske and Bryn Braswell enjoying
the sunshine with their first grade buddy

Tutors Maya Jacobsen and Kelley Sheets help a buddy

Tutors Kelly Kudryk, Caroline Harrison and
 Abby Scott help first grade friends

Literary Character Day Is a Hit!

The three little pigs, Cleopatra, Pooh Bear, Hermoine and Harry, Waldo, and many others descended into the halls of Berkeley Prep on February 27, 2014. That's right, Literary Character Day came to Berkeley. Students dressed up in an array of costumes to show their love of reading. Even teachers joined in on the fun. Literary Character Day was a wonderful day and we hope to see you dressed up next year!