See "Course Outline" in Power Points" section of this website for an overview of the course.
See "Warriner's Assignments" in "Power Points" section of this website for ongoing homework/classwork assignments.
"Weekly" (or thereabouts) classwork/homework worth 10 points.
Specific due dates available on ParentConnect
Early version (10 points) of Summer Reading Essay due ...
Final version (100 points), with assignment sheet and Editor's signature due ...
Chapter 12 "Parts of Speech" Test (40 points) ...
Chapter 13 "Parts of a Sentence" Test (60 points) ...
Chapter 14 "The Phrase":
prep. phrase test (20 points) ...
verbals and appositives (45 points) ...
Chapter 15 "The Clause" and Chapter 10 "Complete Sentences" test (35 points) .....
Chapter 16 "Agreement" test (40 points) ...
Chapter 17 "Correct Use of Verbs" test (60 points) ...
Chapter 18 "Correct use of Pronouns" test (45 points) ...
Chapter 19 "Correct use of Modifiers" test (55 points) Tues. ...
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Term Portfolio 50 points
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Essay Writing Unit: three (3) practice essays (10 points early draft/10 points final version); essay for a grade (10 points early draft/100 points final version)
"Early" is NOT first draft; "Final" MUST be typed
descripitve: early ...; final ...
narrative: early ...; final ...
expository ("how to"): early ...; final ...
persuasive: early ...; final (100 points) ...
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SAT essay practice
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SAT Unit: exploration of SAT prep websites; multi-media presentation to the class; SAT sample test
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(Punctuation study is as time allows.)
Punctuation test 1 (Chapters 21, 22, 23) (100 points).
Punctuation test 2 (Chapters 24, 25, 26) (100 points)