January
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Preface, The Text of The Great Gatsby, Publisher's Afterword, Explanatory Notes
The Coronation of Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Youth and Chivalry - Barbara Tuchman
The Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake - Sir Thomas Malory
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The Death of King Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Five - Paragraph Essay - Persuasive
Grammar - Simple subjects and predicates, compound sentence parts, sentence combining, identifying kinds of sentences, using different kinds of sentences, subject in unusual positions, subject complements, and prepositional phrases
Root Words
February
And of Clay Are We Created - Isabel Allende
The Secret Room - Corrie ten Boom
The Street of the Canon - Josefina Niggli
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
By Any Other Name - Santha Rama Rau
Tuesday Siesta - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillow Book - SeiShonagon
Nobel Acceptance Speech - Albert Camus and Elie Wiesel
Five - Paragraph Essay - Persuasive
Root Words
Grammar - prepositional phrases, sentence diagramming, Identifying words modified by prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, verbals: participles, participial phrases to combine sentences, identifying gerunds and phrases, and infinitives
March
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Topics for persuasive Research/Speeches
Research - Outlining
Research Paper - MLA format
Guidelines for Parenthetical Citations/Documentation
Documenting Sources
Basic Forms for Electronic Sources
Conventions - Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling
Works Cited - Book, magazine, newspaper, anthology, multivolume work, interview - Internet
Plagiarism
Conventions - Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling
Parenthetical Author - Page Citation
Thesis Statements/Controlling Idea
Root Words
April
Root Words
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
My Father Writes to My Mother - Assia Djebar
Julius Caesar - play - Shakespeare
The Balek Scales - Heinrich Boll
How Much Land Does a Man Need - Leo Tolstoy
Research Paper
Grammar - Placement of phrases, Diagramming, kinds of clauses, Adjective and Adverb clauses, noun clauses, sentence structure, sentence diagramming, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and principle parts of adverbs
May
Root Words
Research Paper
Media Presentation/Speech Research
Grammar - Verbals - infinitives, placements of phrases, Adjective and Adverb clauses, sentence structure, fragments, recognizing fragments, run-ons, and comma splices, progressive and empathetic forms
Shifts in tense, form, and voice agreement in number, phrases between subject and verb, compound subjects, and proofreading for subject - verb agreement
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Preface, The Text of The Great Gatsby, Publisher's Afterword, Explanatory Notes
The Coronation of Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Youth and Chivalry - Barbara Tuchman
The Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake - Sir Thomas Malory
The Once and Future King - T.H. White
The Death of King Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Five - Paragraph Essay - Persuasive
Grammar - Simple subjects and predicates, compound sentence parts, sentence combining, identifying kinds of sentences, using different kinds of sentences, subject in unusual positions, subject complements, and prepositional phrases
Root Words
February
And of Clay Are We Created - Isabel Allende
The Secret Room - Corrie ten Boom
The Street of the Canon - Josefina Niggli
Kaffir Boy - Mark Mathabane
By Any Other Name - Santha Rama Rau
Tuesday Siesta - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Pillow Book - SeiShonagon
Nobel Acceptance Speech - Albert Camus and Elie Wiesel
Five - Paragraph Essay - Persuasive
Root Words
Grammar - prepositional phrases, sentence diagramming, Identifying words modified by prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, verbals: participles, participial phrases to combine sentences, identifying gerunds and phrases, and infinitives
March
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Topics for persuasive Research/Speeches
Research - Outlining
Research Paper - MLA format
Guidelines for Parenthetical Citations/Documentation
Documenting Sources
Basic Forms for Electronic Sources
Conventions - Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling
Works Cited - Book, magazine, newspaper, anthology, multivolume work, interview - Internet
Plagiarism
Conventions - Grammar/Punctuation/Spelling
Parenthetical Author - Page Citation
Thesis Statements/Controlling Idea
Root Words
April
Root Words
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Road Not Taken - Robert Frost
My Father Writes to My Mother - Assia Djebar
Julius Caesar - play - Shakespeare
The Balek Scales - Heinrich Boll
How Much Land Does a Man Need - Leo Tolstoy
Research Paper
Grammar - Placement of phrases, Diagramming, kinds of clauses, Adjective and Adverb clauses, noun clauses, sentence structure, sentence diagramming, sentence fragments, run-on sentences, and principle parts of adverbs
May
Root Words
Research Paper
Media Presentation/Speech Research
Grammar - Verbals - infinitives, placements of phrases, Adjective and Adverb clauses, sentence structure, fragments, recognizing fragments, run-ons, and comma splices, progressive and empathetic forms
Shifts in tense, form, and voice agreement in number, phrases between subject and verb, compound subjects, and proofreading for subject - verb agreement