By: Julia Effle –
At Southeast there are several after school programs to help students with school work or provide a place to go and do what you love. The resources, like the math help room, and Knightly Success, are for students who want help with academic needs. Knight house and clubs like college club and power club, are places to go to have fun and express your hobbies and interest
Starting Tuesday, Jan. 17, there will be an addition to that list. This one is a mix of interest and help. It’s an after school writing lab, which will be run by the English department and held in F220A.
“Writing is so essential to student to be able to develop thoughts,” explained English teacher Sam Segrist. “it’s not necessarily for people who are struggling with writing, although we will help them too. It’s anyone who just wants another reader or who might need some help getting started. It might not be for a class, although it totally can be and we anticipate many students will bring that to us.”
The writing lab will start Tuesday, Jan.17. Students can sign up for after school sessions on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and on Tuesdays for before school sessions.
Different teachers will be there on different days. When you go, students will fill out a form that determines a goal or states the the student is there. Then after the session is done the teacher and the student fill out the bottom half and that’s where they will make a list of ideas or a list of things to try.
“[This way] students will leave with a road map with what to do with their writing,” said Segrist.
A main goal at Southeast is to make it a better place, and that’s just what this writing lab is intending to do. Additionally, the English department wants to see a difference in writing at LSE, and they hope to see a new interest be developed in students..
“We want to make southeast a better school and first off one thing to do about that is to create a resource for students. A place where students can go to share their writing and get feedback, and ideas for how to approach a writing assignment,” said Segrist. “In the classroom I know teacher will like it because some students start to hate writing, because they’re frustrated by the process. So what we’d like to see is students learn to love the writing process and see how it works and how they can benefit from it.”