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Tinitia Dodd
email: tinitia.dodd@prepclasses.orgTinitia began teaching as a teacher’s assistant for her mother in Sunday school. She loved working with young people and seeing them “light up” when they understood the message that was taught.
Because she has always liked to write, she spent many of her junior high & high school years writing essays and poems that won multiple monetary and recognition awards. Inspired by this, she pursued a journalism degree at Florida A&M University, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and a minor in history and photography. After graduation, she began teaching students with special needs and realized she was called to teach.
Years later, she returned to her high school alma mater, where she taught English courses for grades 9-12, including Honors English, and English as a Second Language (ESL). She worked in this capacity for 9 years within the Los Angeles Unified School District. In addition to being selected as a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Writing Fellow and serving as a mentor teacher in the English Department for many years, she was also facilitator of the Bible Club, student government, yearbook advisor, alumni founder and facilitator for an organization dedicated to helping at-risk youth.
Upon leaving the public school arena, she and her husband of 23 years, began homeschooling their children in 2007 and have been homeschooling ever since. They have four homeschool graduates and five of their six children have attended PREP Classes. Their youngest child will start PREP Classes this fall.
They are also active members of their church, where they have served for over 12 years, teaching & equipping married couples, parents and singles.
Tinitia’s heart desire is for her students to develop strong Christian character, a Biblical worldview, and that they'll know God’s love, power and grace in their daily life. She believes that reading and writing are tools that can be used to bless generations, by sowing seeds that bring honor and glory to God and shape willing hearts to walk like Christ.
Tinitia has served the homeschooling community as an advisor and private tutor for many years. She continues to do so in her private tutoring business. She enjoys spending time with family, reading, writing, sewing, baking, gardening and exercising.
Teacher's Classes
This course will take students on a reading & writing journey using American Literature & U.S. history through modern times. Students will practice writing using structured-based lessons while developing mastery in writing style.
They will read a variety of works from American Literature & more through novels, plays, short stories, essays & poems spanning a broad period of time in U.S. history.
Students will learn and analyze elements from various forms of writing, and review texts critically from a Biblical worldview. This upper-level course will be combined with regular readings and consistent writing practice to develop confidence and competency.
The student text is saturated with fresh, collegiate vocabulary that will boost any scholar’s word stock and prepare him/her for standardized tests.
Students will participate in lectures with discussions, oral presentation of ideas, collaborative group work, peer review & feedback, and other activities that lend to growth, creativity, movement and critical thinking. This class will, by no means, be boring. We will seek to intersect as many disciplines as possible to make connections and bring learning to life! Students will benefit from dedicated teaching and the necessary support to encourage their success.
Students will write many forms of the basic essay, including responses to literature, literary analysis, timed essays, an extended research essay, a contrast essay, narrative essays, personal essays and persuasive essays. MLA format and in-text citations will also be taught.
Supplies needed for course
- Notebook paper
- Binder
- Colored pens
- Highlighters
- Post-its
- Pencils
Textbooks: Advanced U.S. HIstory-Based Writing Lessons Student Book* by
Lori Verstegen -you can purchase the textbook here
American Literature by Janice Campbell - you can purchase the textbook here
*(Do not purchase Teacher’s Manual)
Novels: In an effort to provide the highest quality of literature possible, a complete list of novels will be provided later this summer. Some reading material can be viewed in the textbooks listed above.
Payment information
Tuition: $70 monthly payments (Aug.-May) or yearly tuition amount due by the first day of class ($700)
Tuition payments are due on the first day of class each month. Late tuition payments incur a fee of $10 per week.
A three-month drop fee is charged if the student withdraws from class after September 15th.
If the course is dropped by Dec. 15th, remaining tuition for the year is due.
Cash is accepted in a sealed envelope, with student’s name and date
Zelle payments can be sent to tinitiatutors@gmail.com.
Venmo payments can be sent to @Tinitia-Dodd (If using Venmo, please add $1with monthly tuition, $709/year).
Paypal payments can be sent to tinitiatutors@gmail.com. If using Paypal, please add $3 with monthly tuition.
One-time Supply fee: $70 (refundable before Aug. 1st)
Please Note:
*Supply fee due upon registration.
*Student is NOT considered registered for class until the supply fee has been paid.
*Parents supply all novels and supplementary texts. (Must purchase specific edition and text must be unmarked).
*A student who completes this course will be able to receive 1 high school honors credit for English.
“The pen indeed is mightier than the sword, for it is in the written word that we do most powerfully preserve that which is noble and expose that which is evil. And so in great part, the very future of society rests with those who can write, and write well.” Andrew Pudewa
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