This class is taught in English.

Write narrative, descriptive, summary, and self-reflective journal entries with improved fluency, as demonstrated by comparison of initial journal writings with end-of-quarter writing

•	Identify the basic parts of speech (nouns, determiners, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, conjunctions, and prepositional phrases) in their own writing and the writing of other learners.

•	Identify basic sentence core patterns in their own writing and the writing of others with improved accuracy (for example, Subject – verb; Subject – verb – noun completer (direct object); subject – linking verb – adjective or noun completer (subject complements); Subject – linking verb – adverb completer)

•	Identify basic verb tenses (simple past and present, past and present continuous, simple future) in their own writing and the writing of others

•	Describe and use an editing process that suits their individual needs

•	Collaborate effectively with classmates to edit each other's writing for mistakes in basic grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation (singular and plural word endings, subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement, verb tense and form, noun and adjective lists, introductory phrases)

•	Edit their own writing to correct mistakes in basic grammar and sentence structure (singular and plural word endings, subject-verb and noun-pronoun agreement, verb tense and form)

•	Look up information about grammar and punctuation in a standard college-level writing handbook and apply it to their own editing

•	Articulate in writing what they have learned and how they have learned it

Homework Offered
Weekly grammar worksheets to be provided the first day of class.
1 - 2 hours per week outside of class
Assessments Offered
Grades will be given for grammar assignments. 
Grades Offered

C.S. Lewis' Elements of Style and College Grammar textbook : Optional