Beginning Readers Ages 5-7
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 4 sessions of ½ hour each
Tuition: $275 per semester
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Language Arts for Ages 8-11
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 4 sessions of ½ hour each
Tuition: $275 per semester
Course Description: This class will meet with students in small groups of not more then 8 students for ½ hour four days per week. The skills emphasized are: reading, penmanship, spelling, reading comprehension, vocabulary building, grammar and mechanics. These are taught, practiced and reinforced by read aloud sessions, dictation, letter writing, worksheets, and other reinforcement activities. A list of 6-10 books that will be used in the class will be furnished to parents so the books can be purchased or checked out of the library to be available when needed in class. |
Junior High Language Arts
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition: $275 per semester
Course Description: This course begins to increase the size of the class group up to about 15 students and meets twice per week for one hour each time. Exposure to literature and literary analysis is also increased, reading more and longer works. Writing assignments include outlining, summaries, book reports, a research paper, and letters. Weekly vocabulary and spelling lists continue, and public speaking skills are introduced. Book lists are provided.
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High School Language Arts Grades 9-10
Credits: 1
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition: $275 per semester
Course Description: At this grade level the curriculum continues to develop mechanical skills: capitalization, punctuation, kinds of sentences and parts of speech. Writing assignments develop a variety of expository and creative techniques, and in literature classics on the themes of truth and wisdom, courage, humility, justice, temperance, beauty, joy and peace, faith and hope, love, time and eternity are included. A book list will be provided. Historical works that coordinate with the themes of concurrent history studies are included. Shakespeare, CS Lewis, Bronte, Dickens, Wister are authors that may be represented on the reading list.
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High School Language Arts Grades 11-12
Credits: 1
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition: $275 per semester
Course Description: This course develops a focus on American literature with highlights on works from the 19th and 20th centuries and authors such as Melville, Longfellow, Dickinson, Sandburg, Frost, Twain, and Bryant. LDS authors of historical and fictional works and correlations with the current course of studies in history are included.
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