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February 6, 2025

English 1

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The 9th grade language arts student will study topics including:

grammar
vocabulary
literature
composition.
public speaking
literary analysis
citing sources
writing reports.
myths
drama
novels
short stories
poetry

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November 21, 2024

7th grade English topics and Resources

The 7th grade English student:

Identifies, reviews, and diagrams simple, compound, and complex sentence patterns.
Reviews eight parts of speech and studies prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Is introduced to infinitives and gerunds.
Reviews principal parts of regular and irregular verbs—perfect tenses; conjugation of all six tenses; progressive verb forms; transitive and intransitive verbs; and subject-verb agreement.
Increases noun study—exact, compound, collective, plural, and possessive.
Develops use of personal pronouns—nominative, objective, and possessive case, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, reflexive, and indefinite pronouns.
Applies adjectives as indefinite pronouns, nouns, participles, and predicate adjectives.
Develops writing and communication skills through use of sentence variety, outlining, paragraph writing, composition writing, and proofreading.
Works with paragraph structure—indenting, main idea, topic sentence, summary, dependent and independent clauses, and phrases.

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November 20, 2024

6th grade English topics and Resources

The 6th grade English student:

Increases word concepts—antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and heteronyms.
Reviews nouns—common, proper, compound, singular, plural, possessive; and learns about collective nouns and nouns in apposition.
Expands verb knowledge (action, linking, state-of-being, regular and irregular) to include verb tenses (present, past, future), and conjugation of all six tenses; verb agreement; and the review of troublesome verbs (learn/teach, sit/set, lay/lie, rise/raise).
Identifies pronouns—personal (subjective and possessive), interrogative, demonstrative, relative, reflexive, and indefinite.
Builds upon parts of speech—comparisons using adjectives and adverbs, prepositions and phrases, coordinating conjunctions, interjections, and diagramming.
Strengthens sentence writing by using sentence patterns, interesting words, and exact nouns; recognizes subject and verb agreement; and types of clauses.
Practices writing paragraphs and begins outlining and research.
Uses simple, compound, and compound-complex sentences with effective coordination and subordination of ideas to express complete thoughts.
Learns to identify types of sentence patterns and clauses.

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November 14, 2024

5th grade English topics and resources

The 5th grade English student:

Expands his knowledge of nouns and verbs and learns the agreement of subjects and verbs.
Learns to diagram the subject, action verb, state-of-being verb, predicate noun, adjectives, adverbs, and direct object of a sentence.
Identifies and correctly uses verbs that are often misused, modifiers, and pronouns.
Changes a given list of verbs from singular to plural.
Reviews pronouns and identifies the kinds (personal, interrogative, demonstrative, and indefinite) and cases (subjective, objective, and possessive).
Recognizes simple and complete subjects and predicates.
Is introduced to predicate adjectives and comparative degrees of adverbs.
Recognizes complete sentences and fragments, learns four sentence patterns, and develops paragraphs.
Learns and practices punctuation rules including quotation marks, underlining titles, etc.
Increases word concepts (antonyms, synonyms, homophones) and learns about heteronyms.
Writes business and friendly letters.
Demonstrates a mastery of proper capitalization.

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November 12, 2024

8th Grade English Topics and resources

The 8th grade English student:

Reviews verbs and verb tenses, progressive form, and the emphatic mood.
Concentrates on diagramming pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, compound subjects and verbs, and all four sentence patterns.
Expands noun functions in sentences—compound, collective, plural, possessive, and subject/verb agreement.
Develops five kinds of pronouns (demonstrative, relative, interrogative, reflexive, and indefinite), the three cases of personal pronouns (nominative, objective, and possessive), subject pronoun/verb agreement (number, person, and gender), and diagrams pronouns.
Reviews parts of speech.
Continues to develop writing skills which include topic sentences, outlining, and paragraph development
Edits written paragraphs to ensure that correct grammar is used
Recognizes sentence fragments and run-on sentences.
Writes several short biographical sketches.

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November 7, 2024

4th Grade Language

The 4th grade English student:

Continues cursive writing.
Practices alphabetizing and increases his comprehension of vowels and consonants.
Reviews and expands knowledge of the parts of speech—nouns (common, proper, singular, plural, and subject nouns), verbs (action, state-of-being, and helping), pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
Develops paragraph writing skills and reviews the types of sentences—declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.
Identifies and practices using ending punctuation.
Learns the use of a colon and an apostrophe in contractions and possessives.
Begins to use the dictionary.
Learns proper letter writing form.
Reviews and expands word concepts (antonyms, synonyms, homonyms), confusing words, word pairs, and contractions.

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2nd grade English Topics and Resources

The 2nd grade English student:

Reviews phonics—identifies vowels, consonants, blends, diphthongs, and suffixes.
Learns punctuation—telling and asking sentences, capitalization, quotation marks, and apostrophes.
Learns suffixes—s, -ed, -ing, and -er.
Is introduced to compound words.
Studies confusing words—no/any, can/may, is/are, does/do, to/too/two.
Discovers parts of speech—nouns, prepositions, verbs, and adverb concepts.
Is introduced to word order and concepts—sequences, same/opposite, homonyms, rhyming words, and poetry.
Writes friendly letters.
Practices writing sentences.
Reads paragraphs for comprehension

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November 5, 2024

3rd grade English learning topics

The 3rd grade English student:

Alphabetizes words.
Learns about sentence types—declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory sentences.
Learns about basic punctuation marks (. ? ! , ’ “ ”).
Practices cursive writing—lowercase and capital letters.
Learns parts of speech—nouns (common, proper, singular, and plural), pronouns, adjectives, verbs (action and state-of-being), and prepositions.
Uses compound words.
Understands word concepts—antonyms, synonyms, homonyms, confusing words, and confusing word pairs (a/an, learn/teach, sit/set, let/leave, their/there, its/it’s, and can/may).
Writes letters and addresses envelopes.
Learns about rhyming words and poems

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1st grade English

The 1st grade English student:

Reviews consonant and vowel sounds.
Is introduced to reading and writing of word families and sentences.
Studies blends, diphthongs, ending sounds, and suffixes.
Develops reading comprehension skills.
Copies sentences using proper capitalization and punctuation.

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