High School 1

Year-at-a-Glance Schedule

Optional: Use this document to plan your schedule for completing the 10 units. Only use this document if you want to spread the course over an entire school year. If you want to finish the course early and complete honors book studies, do not use this document; or adjust it according to your goals.

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Course How To Videos

How to Complete the Course

How to Practice Memorization

How to Complete Spelling Dictation

  • Teacher Helps

    Unit Grade Tracker Sheet

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  • Course Reading Challenge

    PDF – Course Reading Challenge

    Print and complete during the course.

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  • Tips for Grading Insights Journal

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  • Essay Feedback Form

    How to Complete Spelling Dictation

    Note: Each unit has six sentences. You will repeat the same sentences on three different days. The second and third time through the sentences, you will only complete sentences in which there were mistakes the last time you completed them.

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  • Course Reading Challenge

    Essay Feedback Form (Unit 10)

    This Essay Feedback Form is used in conjunction with Unit 10. Students should print out this form and give it to the person who is reviewing theirpaper. Then use the reviewer’s comments to make revisions.

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  • Spelling Dictation Sentences for Units 1-10

    (Use this document if the parent/teacher is dictating the sentences. Otherwise, the student should listen to the audio recordings below.)

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Spelling Audio Recordings

Unit 1

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 2

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 3

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 4

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 5

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 6

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 7

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 8

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 9

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Unit 10

Sentence #1

Sentence #2

Sentence #3

Sentence #4

Sentence #5

Sentence #6

Vocabulary Audio Recordings

Note: Some units say to the watch the vocabulary “video,” when they should have said “audio recording.”

Unit Videos

Unit 1

Vocabulary Exercise > Parts of Speech: Articles and Prepositions >
Parts of Speech: Adjectives and Adverbs > Sentence Diagramming Steps 1-4: Subjects, Verbs, Articles, Adjectives & Adverbs >
Sentence Diagramming Step 5: Direct Object > Sentence Diagramming Step 6: Commands >
Sentence Diagramming Step 11: Predicate Adjective > The Poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson* >

Unit 2

Avoiding Plagiarism > Vocabulary Exercise >

Unit 3

The Power of Literary Devices* > Introduction to Emily Dickinson* >
Vocabulary Exercise > Sentence Diagramming Step 5: Direct Object >
Sentence Diagramming Steps 1-4: Subjects, Verbs, Articles, Adjectives & Adverbs > Sentence Diagramming Step 11: Predicate Adjective >
Adjectives Vs. Adverbs + Sentence Diagramming Step 12* > Exercise 1 >
Exercise 2 >

Unit 4

Emily Dickinson’s Nature Poems: Part 1 > Exercise 2 >
Exercise 3 > Exercise 4 >
Exercise 7 >

Unit 5

Citing Sources Part 2 > How to Write a Persuasive Essay >
Emily Dickinson’s Nature Poems: Part 2 > Exercise 1 >
Review 13 > Review 14 >

Unit 6

Exercise 1 > Exercise 3 >
Literary Analysis > Review 2 >

Unit 7

”Palestine” by John Greenleaf Whittier > Exercise 1 >
Exercise 2 > Exercise 4 >
Review 3 > Review 9 >

Unit 8

The Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier > Exercise 1 >
Review 5 >

Unit 9

Vocabulary Exercise > Exercise 1 >
Exercise 4 > Robert Frost: Part 1 >
Review 5 >

Unit 10

Creating an Essay Outline > How to Write Your Unit 10 Process Essay >
Revising >