Sankofa Word

Writing with Power / Writing Under Pressure / Writing for Pleasure

Word! Word up! In the beginning was the word! Words move the world. You have a lot to say and more to do. Afrikan people invented writing. We return to Medu Ntr, MAAT, Ki Kongo to guide our Sankofa Word: Essay & Grammar Intensive.

The class meets twice a week. You may meet with your classmates in our exclusive online space anytime you want! Together, you'll learn how to use your pen or keyboard to shape ideas and opinions into essays of varieties from expository to persuasive!

Grammar? Yuk! I know. I know. Still, we’ll have you laughing when you learn about how those rules were made and some of the characters that made them up. Don’t sweat it. We teach you grammar through your own writing and speech. We teach it by focusing on our cultural strengths: we start with verbs! Then, we have you read great African writers to see how they use grammar and effective writing techniques to move people and even nations with their words.

Related foci:

Reading comprehension and speed for different types of reading:
- Current events (newspaper, magazines),
- Literature,
- Social Studies,
- Science,
- Mathematics
Report writing: book reports, evaluative reports, research reports, etc.
Becoming a storyteller (oral and written)

Day - School: Fall Schedule TBA

See Summer Calendar

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. Ok, fuss, cuss. It's all warranted for too many reasons. When you're done, let's get to it. Oppression is oppression. Ours to face and to champion over. So, we have to get our children prepared. 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 our 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