Curriculum

Help your student grow in language arts skills through great literature!

• Give your student a rich literary approach to language arts in grades 7 and 8.
• Teach your student how to analyze sentences with a simplified marking system, less complicated than diagramming.
• Guide your student to discover for himself key points of English usage, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, and elements of good writing.
• Keep interest and attention high through short lessons just twice a week.
• Confidently guide and evaluate your student’s progress in composition with the helpful tips and practical tools in the Teacher Guide & Answer Key.

Book 3

• parse a sentence, marking each word with its correct part of speech;
• analyze a sentence, marking subjects, predicates, direct objects, indirect objects, subject complements, and clauses;
• use commas correctly in a sentence as they relate to phrases and clauses;
• explain how prefixes and suffixes can change a word’s part of speech and meaning;
• identify and define metaphors, similes, and personifications;
• use a dictionary and a thesaurus;
• do more complex alphabetizing with book titles and people’s names
• analyze a poem’s end rhymes and eye rhymes, meter and rhyme schemes, plus identify a sonnet and iambic foot;
• and more! (See a complete list in the Placement Guide.)