CLASS DETAILS | FULL
GRADES | 7th-9th
CLASS SIZE | Maximum of 14 students
PREREQUISITE | None
LENGTH | 31 weeks
TIME | 1st Period | 8:45-10:15 A.M.
TUITION | $250/year OR $125/semester OR $31.25/month (8)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
The goal of this class is to satisfy the requirement of one year of middle school English instruction. The course will include:
TEXTS | MATERIALS | SUPPLIES
A good resource for used books is Abebooks. The books in this list are available for $3.00-$4.00 each.
TUTOR
Mrs. Teresa Cole holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications: English and Speech. She taught middle school and high school English and speech in Nebraska for two years. In addition to teaching, her responsibilities included directing the school play, running the contest speech program, and advising for the school newspaper. Since becoming a homeschooling mom, she has taught speech classes through Homeschool Co-op, tutored through Classical Conversations both elementary and middle school and led many classes and Bible studies at her church. Her husband, Steve, teaches at RCTC and they have four children, three of whom have graduated from college.
GRADES | 7th-9th
CLASS SIZE | Maximum of 14 students
PREREQUISITE | None
LENGTH | 31 weeks
TIME | 1st Period | 8:45-10:15 A.M.
TUITION | $250/year OR $125/semester OR $31.25/month (8)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
The goal of this class is to satisfy the requirement of one year of middle school English instruction. The course will include:
- Basic rules of grammar
- Vocabulary building
- Mastering the 5-paragraph essay and other writing
- A variety of literature: poetry, short stories, novels
- Class discussions
- Presentation opportunities
TEXTS | MATERIALS | SUPPLIES
A good resource for used books is Abebooks. The books in this list are available for $3.00-$4.00 each.
- Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
- Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- It’s a Jungle Out There by Ron Snell
- A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park
- My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George
- Treasure Island (unabridged) by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
- 100 Best-Loved Poems Edited by Philip Smith, by Dover Publications
- Reference book for the rules of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, etc. If you’ve been in Mrs. Hansen’s class previously, you can use one of the reference books she used: A Writer’s Reference by Diana Hacker or Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers. Other grammar/usage resource books: Easy Grammar, Editor-in-Chief, Writer’s Inc., or any middle/high school English textbook. Please contact Mrs. Cole if you have any questions.
- Notebook paper to take notes on, either in a spiral bound notebook or loose-leaf paper in a 3-ring binder.
TUTOR
Mrs. Teresa Cole holds a bachelor’s degree in Communications: English and Speech. She taught middle school and high school English and speech in Nebraska for two years. In addition to teaching, her responsibilities included directing the school play, running the contest speech program, and advising for the school newspaper. Since becoming a homeschooling mom, she has taught speech classes through Homeschool Co-op, tutored through Classical Conversations both elementary and middle school and led many classes and Bible studies at her church. Her husband, Steve, teaches at RCTC and they have four children, three of whom have graduated from college.