Live Oak Academy
6th
Grade Language Arts
2007-2008
Carla Harbman, Instructor
Course Description
The 6th grade Language Arts class will review parts of speech, with special emphasis on harder concepts such as sentence complements (IO, DO, PN), all adverbs and adverb phrases, adjectives and predicate adjectives, and practice with diagramming in order to understand good sentence structure. The first half of the year our composition assignments will come from the Write Shop I program and will include lots of concrete exercises to improve the studentsÕ descriptive abilities and word choices. This promises to be an outstanding time of learning for the students. The second half of the year we will write longer compositions with our new found skills, including finishing the year with a research paper.
The Literature, Bible, Memorization and Poetry sections of our course will be primarily taught on Thursday afternoons. I am looking forward to a wonderful year!
Texts
Ÿ WriteShop I
Ÿ ABekaÕs Language C
Ÿ Language
C Student Test Book
Ÿ The Golden ChildrenÕs Bible
Ÿ Christian Studies III Student Book
Please note that students will need access to a Thesaurus for this class. Any thesaurus you have at home will do, but one that is small enough to bring to class faithfully will be appreciated in the early weeks. A notebook copy is recommended.
Homework
Weekly readings and brief summaries from the literature books
Weekly composition assignments (in the beginning) with accompanying warm-up exercises
Revision of all initial drafts
Grammar assignments to be graded at home
Grammar tests to be taken at home but graded at school
Bible readings
Memorization of Bible verses and poetry
Due to the nature of the composition assignments, please
help your student turn these in on time
to receive maximum benefit from the class. MWF homework for this combined class may take 90 minutes per
day. Please let me know if it is
taking much more than this.