August
Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
Two Kinds - Amy Tan
The Censors - Luisa Valenzuela
The Voter - Chinua Achebe
Root Words
Grammar - Nouns, personal/pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, sentence structure, subject verb agreement, and spelling
September
The Other Wife - Colette
The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs
The Demon Lover - Elizabeth Bowen
An Astrologer's Day - Narayan
The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
The Rain Came - Grace Ogot
The Interlopers - Saki
The Boar Hunt - Jose Vasconcelos
Grammar - Writing sentences with adverbs, prepositions, and adjectives
Identifying prepositions, conjuctions,interjections, subjects, predicates, and spelling
Root Words
October
Red Azalea - Anchee Min
Hey Come on Out - Shinichi Hoschi
The Chameleon - Anton Chekhov
Dip in the Pool - Ronald Dahl
The Need to Say it - Patricia Hampl
Crossroads - Carlos Solorzano
Grammar -Writing sentences with adverbs, prepositions, and adjectives
Identifying prepositions, conjuctions,interjections, subjects, predicates, and spelling
Five-paragrah essay - Persuasive
Root Words
November
Twelve Angry Men - play - Reginald Rose
The Fox and the Woodcutter - poem
Descriptive/Expository - Essay
Homophones - story/essay
Grammar - Writing with prepositional phrases, subjects, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and spelling
Root Words
December
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - A Scribner Classic
Descriptive Writing - Essay
Five - paragraph Essay
Antigone - play - Sophocles
Grammar - Identifying conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, and interjections, and spelling
Root Words
Through the Tunnel - Doris Lessing
Two Kinds - Amy Tan
The Censors - Luisa Valenzuela
The Voter - Chinua Achebe
Root Words
Grammar - Nouns, personal/pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, sentence structure, subject verb agreement, and spelling
September
The Other Wife - Colette
The Monkey's Paw - W.W. Jacobs
The Demon Lover - Elizabeth Bowen
An Astrologer's Day - Narayan
The Masque of the Red Death - Edgar Allan Poe
The Rain Came - Grace Ogot
The Interlopers - Saki
The Boar Hunt - Jose Vasconcelos
Grammar - Writing sentences with adverbs, prepositions, and adjectives
Identifying prepositions, conjuctions,interjections, subjects, predicates, and spelling
Root Words
October
Red Azalea - Anchee Min
Hey Come on Out - Shinichi Hoschi
The Chameleon - Anton Chekhov
Dip in the Pool - Ronald Dahl
The Need to Say it - Patricia Hampl
Crossroads - Carlos Solorzano
Grammar -Writing sentences with adverbs, prepositions, and adjectives
Identifying prepositions, conjuctions,interjections, subjects, predicates, and spelling
Five-paragrah essay - Persuasive
Root Words
November
Twelve Angry Men - play - Reginald Rose
The Fox and the Woodcutter - poem
Descriptive/Expository - Essay
Homophones - story/essay
Grammar - Writing with prepositional phrases, subjects, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and spelling
Root Words
December
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald - A Scribner Classic
Descriptive Writing - Essay
Five - paragraph Essay
Antigone - play - Sophocles
Grammar - Identifying conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs, and interjections, and spelling
Root Words