Materials & Resources

• Osgood's Fifth Reader (speech and selections for speech and reading). last 1/3 level 10 (PDF this fall)
• Free Reading 45 Minutes a day from reading list
• English Literature
• American literary heritage
• Higher Lessons in English Text third/ third Text 9-12 grades
• Word Lessons A Complete Speller Lessons 246-289 or any spelling that needs review

Topics to be covered this year

• Cross-cultural literature
• Folklore and ballads
• Regional customs, traditions, folkways, and language
• Literary interpretation and critique
• Novel, short story, and essay
• Understanding poetry: lyric poetry, and the sonnet
• Drama, Drama, History of Drama
• Distinguishing between fact and opinion
• Persuasion and argumentation
• Listening skills
• Public speaking and debate
• Extending dictionary skills
• Vocabulary and etymology
• Geographical dialects
• Grammar
• Techniques of writing
• Writing short stories, poetry, and plays
• Writing term papers
  
• Constructing footnotes

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Journal writing
• History of writing
• History of the alphabet

Extras

• Spelling Rules Worth Knowing

Reading

• A Tale of Two Cities
• Les Miserables
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Iliad
• Odyssey Study Guide Games
• Faust
• Far to Seek
• Scotch Proverbs