Week 1
Lesson 1
The History of English
We'll start by learning the history of English and how we have arrived at where we are and which factors have influenced our spelling. We'll also start dismantling the idea that the job of English spelling is to represent sound, and we'll examine several examples of words that prove that the primary purpose of the spelling system is to represent meaning.
 Week 2
Lesson 2
Phonemes, Graphemes, Morphemes and Word Families
Students will learn the definitions of phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes and how they work together to spell words. We'll also learn about Word Families and how words from the same base will share connections in meaning and spelling.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Suffixing Conventions Part 1 
We'll take a closer look at suffixing and figuring out the suffixing rules for dropping a silent e and changing y to i. We will learn to think like "Word Scientists" to make hypotheses and then use words to test them and come to conclusions about the suffixing rules. We'll learn how to use flowcharts that help us apply the rules of suffixing. 
 Week 4
Lesson 4
Suffixing Conventions Part 2
We will continue to work with suffixing rules for doubling a final consonant and practice applying the suffixing rules by building word with a matrix. 
 Week 5
Lesson 5
Different Types of Bases
We will take a closer look at word families and start getting practice finding bases in words. We will learn the difference between a free base and a bound base and see how words from the same word family that share a base will also always share connections in meaning and spelling, regardless of pronunciation.
 Week 6
Lesson 6
Suffixing Practice
We will do more word building with free and bound bases and apply the suffixing conventions we've learned. 
 Week 7
Lesson 7
Deconstructing Words
We will learn about four questions we can ask to help us determine how a word could be spelled, and we'll practice breaking words apart into their morphological pieces to see how determining a base word can help us understand a word's meaning and spelling as well as to find related words. We will learn how to use resources like etymonline to do research into a word's history.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Summing It Up
In our final lesson of the class, we will learn more about how a word's history can impact its spelling and learn about the function of etymological markers. We'll also review and summarize our learning from the class.