Grade 9 to Grade 12 English – United States
Grade 9 to Grade 12 English
This is the FutureSchool Grade 9 to Grade 12 English course for students in the United States. It is matched to the Common Core State Standards, and to the state standards where a state sets its own. The course holds 72 lessons. Each lesson has a short video, worked examples and a printable worksheet. Lessons cover Sentences, Vowels, Basic Dictionary Use and Capitalization, and more. Your child takes an assessment first, and the course then builds a study plan that names the lessons to work on. A lesson can be repeated as often as your child wants.
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| # | TOPIC | TITLE | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sentences | The Sentence | ||
| Objective: To identify and use complete sentences. | ||||
| 2 | Vowels | Vowels – Long and Short | ||
| Objective: To identify long and short vowel sounds, and their use. | ||||
| 3 | Basic Dictionary Use | Basic Dictionary Use | ||
| Objective: To find words arranged alphabetically and identify word meanings in dictionaries. | ||||
| 4 | Capitalization | Capital Letters 1 | ||
| Objective: To use capital letters correctly: to begin sentences, for proper nouns. | ||||
| 5 | Punctuation | Sentence Endings | ||
| Objective: To use full-stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters correctly. | ||||
| 6 | Common Nouns | Common Nouns | ||
| Objective: To show a common noun names an object or thing. | ||||
| 7 | Nouns | Proper Nouns | ||
| Objective: To show a proper noun is used to name a person, place or a title. | ||||
| 8 | Verbs | Simple Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use verbs. To understand a verb can be: an action or doing word, a state of being or ownership. | ||||
| 9 | Adjectives | Adjectives | ||
| Objective: To show an adjective is a word that describes a noun. | ||||
| 10 | Adverbs | Adverbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use adverbs. To understand an adverb tells something about (modifies) a verb. | ||||
| 11 | Pronouns | Pronouns | ||
| Objective: To show a pronoun is used in place of a noun. | ||||
| 12 | Parts of Speech Part b | Conjunctions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use conjunctions correctly. | ||||
| 13 | Common Errors | Common Errors in spelling and punctuation | ||
| Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. | ||||
| 14 | Conjunctions – Sentences | Conjunctions – Sentences | ||
| Objective: To use conjunctions to increase the variety of sentence structure in written expression. | ||||
| 15 | Capitalization | Capital Letters 2 | ||
| Objective: To use capital letters correctly: in titles and letters. | ||||
| 16 | Parts of Speech Part h | Articles and Demonstratives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use articles and demonstratives correctly. | ||||
| 17 | Antonyms and Synonyms | Antonyms and Synonyms | ||
| Objective: To identify and use antonyms and synonyms. | ||||
| 18 | Punctuation | Commas 1 | ||
| Objective: To use commas: to list, to make meaning clear, and when writing the date. | ||||
| 19 | Commas 2 | Commas 2 | ||
| Objective: To use commas: to separate places, to separate clauses within sentences, and when using direct speech. | ||||
| 20 | Spelling Skills | Spelling | ||
| Objective: To correctly spell words after adding suffixes: ‘ing’, ‘ed’, ‘er’, ‘est’. | ||||
| 21 | Spelling Skills | Syllabification | ||
| Objective: To improve spelling by dividing words correctly into syllables. | ||||
| 22 | Plurals | Plurals 1 – simple | ||
| Objective: To form plurals (more than one) by adding ‘s’ and ‘es’ correctly. | ||||
| 23 | Plurals | Plurals 2 – special rules | ||
| Objective: To form plurals with special rules: words ending in ‘y’ and ‘f’. | ||||
| 24 | Nouns | Collective and Abstract Nouns | ||
| Objective: To identify and use collective and abstract nouns. | ||||
| 25 | Verbs | Verbs – Tense | ||
| Objective: To identify and use the correct tense of verbs: past, present and future. | ||||
| 26 | Adjectives | Adjectives – from Nouns and Verbs | ||
| Objective: To create adjectives from nouns and verbs. E.g. China – Chinese | ||||
| 27 | Adjectives | Adjectives – Comparatives and Superlatives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use comparative and superlative adjectives. | ||||
| 28 | Parts of Speech Part a | Prepositions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use prepositions correctly. | ||||
| 29 | Punctuation Skills Part b | Quotation Marks | ||
| Objective: To use quotation marks for direct speech. | ||||
| 30 | Apostrophe – Possession | Apostrophe – Possession | ||
| Objective: To use the apostrophe of possession correctly. | ||||
| 31 | Mnemonics | Spelling – Mnemonics | ||
| Objective: To identify and use mnemonics to assist in correct spelling. | ||||
| 32 | Prefixes | Prefixes | ||
| Objective: The identify and use prefixes. | ||||
| 33 | Suffixes | Suffixes | ||
| Objective: The identify and use suffixes. | ||||
| 34 | Similes and Metaphors | Similes and Metaphors | ||
| Objective: To identify and use similes and metaphors. | ||||
| 35 | Figurative Language | Onomatopoeia, Assonance and Alliteration | ||
| Objective: To identify, and make use of, onomatopoeia, assonance, and alliteration. | ||||
| 36 | Homonyms – Homophones and Homographs | Homonyms – Homophones and Homographs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use correctly homonyms, both homophones and homographs. | ||||
| 37 | Advanced Dictionary Use | Advanced Dictionary Use | ||
| Objective: To use dictionaries by identifying all the information provided. To use a thesaurus. | ||||
| 38 | Vocabulary Development | Vocabulary | ||
| Objective: To identify and use better words than ‘got’ and ‘said’. | ||||
| 39 | Phrases | Phrases | ||
| Objective: To identify and use phrases including adjectival and adverbial phrases. | ||||
| 40 | Clauses | Clauses | ||
| Objective: To identify and use clauses including adjectival, adverbial and noun clauses. | ||||
| 41 | Simple and Compound Verbs | Simple and Compound Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use simple and compound verbs. | ||||
| 42 | Auxiliary Verbs | Auxiliary Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use auxiliary verbs within compound verbs. | ||||
| 43 | Subject-Verb Agreement | Subject-Verb Agreement | ||
| Objective: To identify and use correct tense, number and person in forming verbs. | ||||
| 44 | Verb tense – Compound | Verb tense – Compound | ||
| Objective: To identify and use ‘to be’ and ‘to have’ with the appropriate participle of the main verb. | ||||
| 45 | Plurals | Plurals 3 – Unusual | ||
| Objective: To create unusual plurals: for words ending in ‘o’; by changing the vowels or by adding letters. | ||||
| 46 | Pronouns | Pronouns 2 | ||
| Objective: To recognize and use personal, possessive and relative pronouns. | ||||
| 47 | Contractions | Contractions | ||
| Objective: To identify and use contractions. | ||||
| 48 | Common Errors | Common Errors in writing | ||
| Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. | ||||
| 49 | Verbs – Active and Passive voice | Verbs – Active and Passive voice | ||
| Objective: To identify and use active and passive voice. | ||||
| 50 | Common Errors | Common Errors in verb usage, spelling and punctuation | ||
| Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors. | ||||
| 51 | Colons and Semi-Colons | Colons and Semi-Colons | ||
| Objective: To use colons and semi-colons correctly. | ||||
| 52 | Sentence Structure Part a | Subject and Predicate | ||
| Objective: To identify the subject and predicate within a sentence and to understand they are the two main parts of a sentence. | ||||
| 53 | Regular and Irregular Verbs | Regular and Irregular Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use regular and irregular verbs in the present and past tense. | ||||
| 54 | Verbs – Infinitives | Verbs – Infinitives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use the infinitive form of the verb. | ||||
| 55 | Modal Verbs | Modal Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use modal verbs with the appropriate form of the main verb. | ||||
| 56 | Participles – as Verbs and Adjectives | Participles – as Verbs and Adjectives | ||
| Objective: To identify and use participles as verbs or adjectives as indicators of continuing action. | ||||
| 57 | Gerunds | Gerunds | ||
| Objective: To identify and use gerunds. | ||||
| 58 | Interjections | Interjections | ||
| Objective: To identify and use interjections correctly. | ||||
| 59 | Plurals | Plurals 4 – Unusual | ||
| Objective: To use nouns whose singular and plural forms are the same. To use compound noun plurals. | ||||
| 60 | Sentence Improvement | Sentence Improvement | ||
| Objective: To construct expressive sentences by using adjectives, adverbs, phrases and clauses. | ||||
| 61 | Punctuation | Punctuation – Various | ||
| Objective: To use hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses and brackets correctly. | ||||
| 62 | Mass and Count Nouns | Determiners | ||
| Objective: To identify and use determiners correctly with mass and count nouns. | ||||
| 63 | Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | Transitive and Intransitive Verbs | ||
| Objective: To identify and use transitive and intransitive verbs. | ||||
| 64 | Case – Nouns and Pronouns | Case – Nouns, Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives | ||
| Objective: To identify the case of nouns and pronouns. | ||||
| 65 | Plurals of Foreign Nouns | Plurals 5 – Foreign | ||
| Objective: To form plurals of foreign nouns. | ||||
| 66 | Variety of Expression | Sentence Construction | ||
| Objective: To construct expressive and precise sentences to improve meaning. | ||||
| 67 | Figurative Language | Symbolism and Personification | ||
| Objective: To identify, and make use of, symbolism and personification. | ||||
| 68 | Review of Figures of Speech | Review of Figures of Speech | ||
| Objective: To identify multiple uses of figures of speech within writing. | ||||
| 69 | Spelling Skills | Word Usage | ||
| Objective: To correctly choose words with similar spelling, sound and meaning. | ||||
| 70 | Essay Writing 1 | Essay Writing 1 | ||
| Objective: To develop and write essays (expositions). | ||||
| 71 | Essay Writing 2 | Essay Writing 2 | ||
| Objective: To develop and write essays. | ||||
| 72 | Letter Writing | Personal and Business Letters | ||
| Objective: To use correct setting out and format for personal and business letters. | ||||
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