This American Literature course is a year-long course designed to prepare students for beginning-college level writing. This class will help to develop skills as an independent reader and writer through assessing a variety of genres on three levels: understanding, interpreting and analyzing. Students taking this class will write and revise certain pieces into polished final drafts, including college application essays, response papers and a research paper. Throughout the year, they will accumulate a final writing portfolio which will have evidence of both the finished work and works in progress. The reading aspect of this class will have an emphasis on American Literature from the earliest American writers into the 21st century and how American Literature has entered the world literary scene and made an impact.
- Teacher: Karissa Costello
Upperclassmen will study an overview of British literature from the first British work of Beowulf to the modern era.
- Teacher: Karissa Costello
9th English Spelling Lists (28 lists of twenty words each) feature spelling patterns and commonly misspelled words and Vocabulary Lists (28 lists of ten words each) have exercises to put words into sentence contexts. There are weekly quizzes and review lessons after every seven lessons with cumulative tests.
- Teacher: Hank Elgersma
10 English Spelling and Vocabulary contains twelve units each meant to take two weeks using one vocabulary list of twelve words and two spelling lists of twenty words. The exercises will expose students to synonyms of the vocabulary words. In the course of the year approximately one thousand vocabulary words are used. Spelling words feature spelling rules and commonly misspelled words.
- Teacher: Hank Elgersma
9th Grade English Grammar using Bob Jones curriculum. Reinforcement worksheets and pre-tests for each unit.
- Teacher: Hank Elgersma
Last overview of grammar topics for effective English speaking and writing. Overview of parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences, and agreement. Common errors in language and punctuation and capitalization rules reviewed.
- Teacher: Hank Elgersma
Literature portion of 9th grade English. Themes in Literature (A-Beka), and selected classic novels and Shakespearean play are sources of literature used in this course.
- Teacher: Hank Elgersma
A survey of literary genres focusing on the marks and modes of timeless (classic) literature using the Bob Jones Curriculum for tenth grade. God's Word is our model for the best in literary expression by the giver of language Himself, The Word. Various novels and/or plays will also be included from both the American and British traditions.
- Teacher: Hank Elgersma