Tutoring

Writing with Power / Writing Under Pressure / Writing for Pleasure

Words! Words build, words heal, words bring things into existence and words kill! Words bring some things to light while obscuring others.

The first step in writing a good research paper is identity.

From what location are the questions poised and to what end?

The second step is actually doing the research. Where and how can you collect reliable data?

We also contrast how culture and oppression define who or what is "competent and legitimate authority."

AYA's Advanced English Composition course introduces students to valuable research sources and techniques, while also providing writing instruction for a range of non-fiction formats. We seek to include ways to document sources typically overlooked in Eurocentric guided research.

In addition to new methods for gathering information and tips on the use of electronic sources, students will also get expert advice on crafting:

Essays
Abstracts
Arguments
Research papers

Featuring interviews with published authors, a simulated newscast / talk show, and a friendly, informative African-centered teaching style, this second level English course will show you the best and easiest ways to find your facts, organize them and express them.

The class meets twice a week. Lab time with your classmates in our exclusive online space is required.

Together, you'll learn how to research and to use your pen or keyboard to shape ideas and opinions that will improve our world.

Grammar?

Well, we still emphasize it in Advanced Composition. We just use our Afrikan cultural strengths to do it. Here's a question that gives you some clue to how we do it.

Question: If "movement" and "essence" or "realness" are high cultural values, how can we use these to guide our teaching of grammar?

It's in there..... That's it, now you're thinking in the AYA way.

Join us to find out just how we use our African cultural strengths to make it fun and relevant.

AYA's approach is the SANKOFA approach. We help you go back and "fetch" the knowledge that you may have missed or may have never been taught. More than that, we help you go back and heal the learning injury that may impair your success.

Acceleration? Why wait? You know that your child will be expected to master Algebra by the 8th grade, but you don't have to wait. Expose them to it early in the 6 or 7th grade. Once the fundamentals are down, you child is ready for Algebra no matter what age!

What about Language Arts? Good communication is essential. The ditches are all dug, the rails are all laid. The days when we can make a living with our hands are all but disappeared for us. What then for our children? They must have a mastery of this language and many languages. Mastery to use it to serve themselves and our people.

Great Language Arts = Higher SAT scores. Have you heard? The new high score for the SAT is 2400! Many were struggling to get close to 1600. Now the bar has been moved.

When you're done, let's get to it. Challenging oppression and becoming victorious over it. So, we have to get our children prepared to hurdle the obstacles while keeping there eyes on the larger prize - freedom and full restoration of our people.

The additional 800s points come mostly from what's called the "Essay" section. Public and some private schools are frantic, and are doing a poor job preparing our students to write at 2 page essay in 25 minutes. What worse? 75% of the 800 points is based on arcane grammar vocabulary that public schools stopped teaching long ago.

Consequently, even the teachers are unprepared. What's worse than even that? Teachers and schools who do prepare our children to "write well" and to "know" the grammar usage vocabulary and mechanics only prepare them to write well for others. Few of our children know how or are encouraged to use their good communications skills in service of building or defending our people.

Tutorial Classes: All tutorial classes start with an assessment and end with an assessment.

Clusters of 3-5 students grouped according to skill work together for greater proficiency of the operations and greater grasp of the vocabulary of Algebra as well.

Individual tutorial Sessions: Same care, vigor and African-Centeredness with one-on-one student-instructor interaction on line. In some limited situations, body-to-body, face-to-face can be arranged. This is rare; however. We want you to give our online interactive a try first. Given transportation costs and the time spent to shuttle students to and from a physical locations, Mu Kanda offers a viable alternative.

Please don't so quickly rule out this on-line medium or

predict that you or you're child won't respond to us through it. Notice, I said through it. Because, each student is interacting with a live caring African