GRAMMAR

Students will learn the fundamentals of storytelling, fundamentals that will help shape their ability to read, analyze and interpret texts in the future. Not only will they be able to identify these components, your child will be able to utilize them creatively and take them as they discuss all different kinds of mediums during everyday conversation.

This course is also designed for children looking to develop their english language and reading skills--children who wish to excel, and surpass expectations not just academically, but outside the classroom.

READING

Reading course focuses primarily on reading comprehension through  the close reading of passages, short stories, and poems. Children are encouraged to read certain imperative literary texts within the English canon and identify, explore, and discuss important literary devices while reading additions important to academic thinking.

G4 Reading Sample Class

WRITTING

Writing course focuses on the writing techniques, varying genres, cultural/political events, and key writers/figures of each English literary period.Students will read, and dissect works of fiction and non-fiction ranging from the beginning of the English literary writing world: starting with Homer’s “Odyssey” and “Iliad”,  Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, all the way to more contemporary works such as George Orwell’s political discourse. 

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By doing so, students will be better understand the evolution of English writing and speaking throughout time by contextualizing  and conceptualizing each text/narrative with context specific to each time period.  The analytical thinking that extends not just toward the creative, but to analytical and informative kinds of writing they will do throughout their academic and career oriented journeys.

ELA academic is an academic level program that is designed for high school students and prepare for college studies. The grade 9 level targets on fundamental high school reading and writing knowledges to help student quickly adapt to higher level of literacy study. The grade 10 provides advanced and specialized skills for students who already have outstanding literacy performance.

G9 Writing Sample Class

Course Introduction

• Designed to complement the Grade 9 Writing course

• Students will read important works of Science Fiction from the 19th - 21st centuries, including Frankenstein and the Time Machine

• Student will learn the tools of literary analysis

• ​Students will practice their literary analysis skills through close reading and class discussion

Course Contents

• Read essays by famous writers, such as George Orwell

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• Study examples of excellent high school essays

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• Analyze important literary works from Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Isaac Asimov, and others

Course Introduction

This course is designed specifically to teach students how to write high quality academic essays. We study the essay as a literary genre. Students will read many examples of great essays and learn to deconstruct essays.

The majority of this course will be walking students through the process of writing good academic essays. They will learn to develop thesis statements, how to construct arguments, and how to use evidence to support these arguments. I will also introduce them to basic research methods, proper citation, note taking, and organization. Finally, students will produce their own essays, learn how to edit their own work, and learn how to edit another student's work. The goal of this class is to prepare students for University level writing

Homework/Exercises

• Write thesis statements

• Conduct research

• Construct arguments

• Use evidence

• ​Edit your own and other students' writing

Skills

• Understand the genre and types of essays

• Understand proper tone, diction, structure of an essay

• Review common literary and poetic devices

• Understand techniques of oral composition

• ​Understand the intersection between literature, history, and archaeology as it pertains to the Trojan War

• Understand the MLA style for citing

• Understand proof-reading and deeper editing

• ​Understand the process of writing an essay

Course Breakdown

Unit 1: Introductions to Essays

• Types of essays

• Literary features

• Thesis, argument, evidence

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Unit 2: Reading

• Homer's Illiad Bks.

• Arthur Miller The Crucible

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Unit 3: Essay Writing

• How to write an outline

• Research

• Organization

• Citations

• First draft

• Editing & Peer Editing

Homework/Exercises

• Correctly identify two different types of essays

• Identify the features of an essay and write a summary about it

• ​Write a 500-word comparison of the archaeological evidence from the ancient city of Troy and its description in the Iliad

• Annotated bibliography assignment

• Write a bibliography using proper MLA format

• ​Submit your final draft

The Shakespeare course is designed to invite students to explore Shakespeare’s famous plays. Shakespeare is often intimidating but the materials used in this course are designed for younger students. The books present the full story of Shakespeare’s plays and explore their complex themes with level appropriate language and vocabulary that still challenges. The goal is for students to gain an understanding and appreciation for Shakespeare’s most famous plays. Along the way they will expand their vocabulary, critical thinking and analytical abilities, spelling and grammar, reading, and speaking.

Objectives

1. ​understand what is happening in the story: understand the words in the story, to be able to understand the sentences, and to understand what the plot of the story is

2. To show that students are able to think and talk about the story. For instance, what it would be like to be a woman in Shakespeare’s time, since women were not allowed to act or even have a job

3. Students have the ability to express their own idea when analyzing the story

4. Understand the theme and main idea of the story

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to Shakespeare

• Time

• Life

• Influence

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Unit 2: Midsummer Night's Dream

• Read

• Vocabulary

• Script example

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Unit 3: Romeo and Juliet

• Read

• Vocabulary

• Deep reading of 3 scenes

• Character exploration

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Unit 4: ​The Tempest

• Read

• Vocabulary

• Deep reading of 3 scenes

• Character exploration