Roy Speed Logical Communication, Shakespeare, or Something Else?

[JumpyTheFrog]

I'm looking at Roy Speed's Logical Communication for DS1 for 11th grade next year. He's currently doing his fourth Lantern English creative writing class. For 9th grade we did IEW's Ancient History theme book. He hasn't had much essay writing experience and no experience writing research papers. The Logical Communication class looks interesting to me. I like the idea of having students ready numerous essays before being required to write their own. Does anyone know if the class also includes learning how to read things closely and annotate like Roy Speed's Shakespeare classes? He hasn't done any of these classes, but those skills look like good ones for DS to learn because his tendency is to not read carefully (ADHD).

[BrunchinMunchkins]

Bumping for you. And here’s some little experience…

We have taken a few of Roy’s Shakespeare and can definitely recommend it for all of the skills you mentioned above. He really knows how to engage the class so well! 

Like you, we are also debating the Logical Communication class. We have reached out to him before, and he even offered a virtual meeting to go through all the little details of the class. We had a busy schedule this year, however, so we didn’t get to take him up on his offer (yet!). I would highly suggest reaching out to him like so as well. If you do, please let us know your thoughts!

HTH