Middle School Grammar: Semester Edition (Flexible Schedule)

In this semester long class, students will learn the basics of grammar that will help them build strong writing skills.  The class will start with simple topics and progress to more difficult concepts.  Some topics may be review but the class will go into more detail to make the topics relevant for the age group.  This class can also be paired with Middle School Writing which will be offered in the 2nd semester of the year.  The two classes combined together can equate a full year of Language Arts.  11 is a strict cutoff as the youngest age since some of the concepts can be a bit complicated.

The topics covered are as followed:
Week 1: Nouns and Pronouns
Week 2: Verbs and Interjections
Week 3: Adjectives and how to use them
Week 4: Adverbs and how to use them
Week 5: Prepositions
Week 6: Conjunctions
Week 7: Semi-colons/Colons
Week 8: Commas/Comma Splices
Week 9: Appositives/Subject-Verb Agreement
Week 10: Fragments and Run-Ons
Week 11: Types of Sentences
Week 12: Active/Passive Voice
Week 13: Direct/Indirect Objects
Week 14: Verbals

There no live meetings during this class.  Each week, a video lesson will be posted which includes teacher instruction and PowerPoint slides.  There will be practice activities throughout the lesson along with a detailed discussion of the answers.  Students will be able to pause the video to work on the practice and resume play when finished.   In addition to in lesson practice, there will be additional homework assignments to complete independently. Each student will be given private feedback on their homework assignments from the teacher.  Teacher is always available for questions and clarification.  In some cases, videos or outside graphics will be used but all will be appropriate for the age group of the class.  I strive to keep things upbeat and fun while we learn. We will do some interactive activities such as internet grammar hunts, mad libs, and hunts for real life grammar errors. Students will also engage with each other in some collaborative activities as well as contributing to class wide mad libs to practice parts of speech. Students will also discuss homework assignments with each other and provide peer feedback.