4th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 4 sessions of ½ hour each
Tuition Units: 2
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. |
5th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 4 sessions of ½ hour each
Tuition Units: 2
Course Description: Again, in small groups, this class builds upon skills acquired, and continues to develop English language skills in the areas of oral reading, reading comprehension, vocabulary building, penmanship, spelling and poetry. The writing process: using sentences and sentence parts, punctuation, capitalization, quotations, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, dictionary and thesaurus skills, outlines, book reports and creative writing. In grammar: recognizing all eight parts of speech and word usage. Parents receive a book list that will be used in classes.
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6th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 4 sessions of ½ hour each
Tuition Units: 2
Course Description: In small groups this class expands exposure to literature and reading through reading aloud, reading comprehension drills, vocabulary and dictionary skills, penmanship by creative writing and word exercises, spelling and poetry by weekly word lists of prefixes, suffixes and root words, poetry memorization. In the writing process, comparison, contrast, outlines, library research, narration and journaling. In grammar, sentence parts, fragments, run-ons, punctuation and capitalization, using all eight parts of speech.
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7th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition Units: 2
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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8th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 0
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition Units: 2
Course Description: This course continues to develop skills in grammar and mechanics, kinds of sentences and parts of speech. Composition assignments include the writing process, the library, outlining, summaries, book reports, paragraphs, descriptions, and writing style. Weekly vocabulary and spelling lists continue, writing and delivering public speech. Literature introduces Shakespeare, and literary analysis of theme, plot, character and strategy are considered.
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9th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 1
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition Units: 2
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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10th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 1
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition Units: 2
Course Description: In addition to the grammar, composition, vocabulary, spelling, and punctuation skills that are continuously emphasized, this course develops a focus on world literature with a sampling of works by authors such as Dickens, Browning, Holmes, Poe, Doyle, Yeats, Tolstoy, Herbert, Homer, Aesop, Virgil, Milton, Bunyan, Newton. Literary forms: short story, narrative poetry, plot, imagery, figurative language, symbolism, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, fixed form, continuous form, and free verse poetry, paradox, setting, point of view and tone. One complete play of Shakespeare and one complete novel, one unit of speech are included. |
11th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 1
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition Units: 2
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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12th Grade Language Arts
Credits: 1
Sessions per Week: 2
Tuition Units: 2
Course Description: The focus of this course is on English literature with a consideration of writers and works from the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Elizabethan, and Puritan periods. Writers and works from the 18th century, Romantic Period, Victorian Age and Twentieth Century are included. An additional work of Shakespeare and a complete novel will be selected. |
Private Writing Lessons
Credits: .5
Sessions per Week: 1
Tuition Units: 2
Course Description: Students meet one on one with a teacher to receive instruction, feedback, and an individualized writing assignment that develops the specific writing skills found to be needing development. Expository writing is the focus, including narration, description, and exposition; mastering grammar and punctuation, expanding vocabulary, rhetorical organization, logical argument and support, and developing skill with tone and style. A minimum of one year in this class is required for graduation. |
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