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Introduction to Grammar

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Most students take Introduction to Grammar in 3rd or 4th Grade.  Introduction to Grammar introduces students to Five-Level Analysis, a strategy for analyzing language to assess quality and clarity.  Students learn the eight parts of speech, the parts of a sentence, prepositional phrases, appositive phrases, clauses, simple sentence structure, and compound sentence structure.  After learning to identify grammatical units in writing, students learn to use this knowledge to revise and edit their own writing.  

Students complete an end-of-year project that requires research, writing, revision, and editing.  Each student produces a hard-cover encyclopedia based on a topic of their interest.  Past topics have included dinosaurs, astronomy, mathematics, dogs, soccer players, dragons, and more.  At the conclusion of this project, family and friends are invited to Story Time.  Each student reads and presents their book at this event.   

 

View excerpts from some of the past projects.  The buttons below will show you 1 of 10 chapters from a variety of student books.

Arthropods

Arthropods have three basic body parts. They are the head, thorax and abdomen. In some, the head and thorax fuse to form the cephalothorax. They are all bilaterally symmetrical. All arthropods have an exoskeleton, a rigid external covering made of chitin. Chitin is a hard material which can’t grow as the animal grows, so arthropods undergo molting. Arthropods have a segmented body and jointed appendages to help them move around. Some have appendages on their heads that act as sensory organs. All arthropods have organ systems. They have a ventral nervous system and an open circulatory system that is dorsal. Aquatic arthropods have gills, while terrestrial arthropods have trachea and book lungs.

Arthropods

Arthropods

Dracula is a novel about a vampire, Count Dracula, and a man, Jonathan, who, with the help of some other people, tries to destroy Count Dracula.

This novel was written in the 1800s. Although we cannot be sure what the inspiration for Dracula was, besides vampires, but we can take a guess at what the inspiration for vampires was most likely rabies and VladIII. VladIII was a voivode, a voivode was a military leader or warlord in Eastern and Southern Europe. We can't know for sure where vampires came from, though Dracula was written in England. This novel has made a large impact on modern day vampires.

Horror Stories

Pokemon

Fairy Pokemon live in mystical forests and jungles. There are 63 fairy Pokemon. For example, Sylveon, the evolution of Eevee and her ability is cute charm. Zacian is the best fairy
Pokemon because of its intrepid sword ability. Opal, Bede, Lillie, Mina, and Vaterie are fairy type trainers. The special abilities of fairy Pokemon are aroma veil, flower veil, misty surge, and pixilate. Also they can use these items: fairy gem, fairy memory, pixie plate, fairium z, and roseli berry. Poison is resistant to fairy Pokemon. They are immune to dragon Pokemon.
They are super effective against fighting, dark, and dragon. Fairy moves are not very effective against fire , poison, and steel. Fairy and ground are a strong combination for attack, so you should use them often. They are considered cute, but some are incredibly powerful.

Pokemon

Dogs

Dogs

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