Materials & Resources

• Baldwin's Readers 8th Year
• Free Reading (from below) 35 Minutes a Day and fillout...
• Free Reading Report
• Reeds Word Lessons Pages 228-288
• Spelling Lessons
• Higher Lessons in English

Topics to be covered this year

• Independent reading
• Literal, inferential, and evaluative reading skills
• Literary terms
• Novel, short story, narrative poetry
• Nonfiction
• Biographies of great Americans
• American poets and storytellers
• Creative dramatics
• Listening and speech activities
• Advanced dictionary work
• Extended vocabulary
• Figures of speech
• Spelling
• Punctuation
• Infinitive, participle, gerund, predicate nominative, predicate adjective, direct and indirect object
• Kinds of sentences and their parts
• Functions of sentence elements
• Writing simple business letters
• Report-writing skills
• Study Skills

Additional Topics if Time permits

• Improving skills in using basic reference sources
  Inductive and deductive reasoning

Extras

• Spelling Rules Worth Knowing
• Spell Checker
• Flash Cards

 

Free Reading List

• Tom Sawyer Study Guide
• Huckleberry Finn Study Guide
• David Copperfield Study Guide
• Moll Flanders Study Guide
• Ivanhoe Study Guide
• Beowulf Study Guide
• Frankenstein Study Guide
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• The Captain of the Polestar
• His Last Bow
• The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
• Study in Scarlet
• Chronicles of the Canongate
• Pickwick Papers

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