Materials & Resources

• Baldwin's Readers Seventh Year and Assignments
• Free Reading 20 Min a day, and report
• McGuffey's New Eclectic Spelling Book Pages 119-144
• Reeds Word Lessons Pages 183-227
• Spelling Lessons forms for recording spelling
• Spelling Rules Worth Knowing
• Graded Lessons in English 101 lessons 2nd half of 2 year course if not completed last school year.
• Student dictionary for new words."Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896).
• Slant Gothic Penmanship (drafting)

Topics to be covered this year

• Literary terms
• Novels, Short Stories, More short stories, plays
• Myths, legends, ballads
• Types of poetry
• Biography and autobiography
• Planning and producing dramatizations
• Speech activities
• Listening skills
• Refining dictionary skills
• Parts of speech
• Person, number, gender of nouns and pronouns
• Punctuation of conversation
• Clauses and phrases
• Compound sentences
• Writing descriptions, reports, journals, and letters
• Note taking and outlining
• Extending reference skills: atlases, directories, encyclopedias, periodicals, on-line information services, CD-ROMs, and other electronic
• reference material
• Library organization Quiz

Free Reading

• Uncle Tome's Cabin
• Oliver Twist Study Guide
• Shakespeare Study Guide
• Comedy of Errors
• All's Well That Ends Well
• As You Like It
• MacBeth
•  The Three Musketeers
• The Black Tulip

 

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