Students will enjoy this English course with a camping theme throughout each lesson. Daily lessons will dive deep into language and communication skills. Students will explore how language helps us connect and understand each other, seeing examples of language from God and how people use it every day. The eight grammar chapters review basic sentence structure, so we learn to make sure each one has a subject and a predicate. We learn how to add interest with adjectives, adverbs, and prepositional phrases. Students will also practice combining sentences and double-checking to make sure there are no run-ons. Finally, we look for and correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in our sentences.

For the six writing chapters, students create a Sound Poem, Game Instructions Paragraph, Book Review, Persuasive essay, Friendly Letter, and Research Report on a famous person. They will follow a five-step process, learning to plan, draft, revise, proofread, and publish their work in a way that clearly communicates to their audience. They will also read a writing sample, examining the steps taken to create the piece. Then they work through each step of the writing process as they work independently to write his or her own piece.

• Be CyberSmart! Topics
  • Influence: Empathy Online, Godly Influence, Digital Identity
  • Maturity: Standing Firm, Protecting Identity, Collaborating Online
  • Leadership: Walking in Concrete, Finding Resources, Screen Time Balance
  • Protection: Trust & Privacy, Who Can I Trust?, Info Security
  • Discernment: Seeing Harmful Content, Research Skills, Copyright Dos & Don’ts
• Critical Thinking & Grammar Skills
  • Sentence construction: combining, elaborating, and types (declarative, interrogative, etc.)
  • Grammar essentials: subjects/predicates, pronoun use, subject-verb agreement
  • Parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
  • Sentence issues: run-ons, fragments
  • Punctuation: period, comma, apostrophe, etc.
  • Capitalization: proper nouns, titles, initials, abbreviations
• Grammar & Writing Skills Overview
  • Sentence structure: combining, types, fragments, run-ons
  • Parts of speech: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions
  • Grammar rules: subject-verb agreement, pronoun reference
  • Sentence building: elaboration, prepositional phrases
  • Mechanics: punctuation, capitalization
  • Writing & Research Skills Summary
  • Writing Genres: Reviews, letters, instructions, journal, narrative, opinion, persuasive, poetry, research, informative
  • Writing Techniques: Word choice, voice, audience, purpose, literary devices (e.g., alliteration, rhyme, onomatopoeia, contractions)
  • Paragraph Structure: Topic sentence, details, linking words, conclusions
  • Research Skills: Using sources (internet, library, videos), internet safety, keyword searches, and note-taking
  • Study & Reference: Using a thesaurus, parts of a book, and electronic catalogs

Core Course: English

• Book-Based Program

• Canvas

Yes

One Year

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