Middle School Weekly Grammar Focus (Twice Weekly)

Why should we learn grammar? Learning proper grammar enables students to become better writers. We will meet 2x a week in this ongoing class. Each week will focus on a different grammar topic. The classes will follow this format weekly:

TUESDAY: There will be a lesson on the topic of the week. This will be teacher-led but student interaction will be encouraged. The class will then complete a worksheet on the topic. 
THURSDAY: Students will review the topic of the week by coming up with examples together. The class will then complete a worksheet on the topic. We will take the worksheet up together.  Students will play a game of Kahoot to review our topic.



Topics for the weeks are as follows:
Week of October 24: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
Week of October 31: Common and Proper Nouns
Week of Nov. 7: Singular and Plural Nouns
Week of Nov.14: Pronouns
Week of Nov. 21: Possessive Nouns
Week of Nov. 28: ActionVerbs and Linking Verbs
Week of Dec 5: Main verbs and Helping Verbs
Week of Dec 12: Adjectives

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Week of Jan. 9: Adverbs
Week of Jan. 16: Conjunctions
Week of Jan. 23: Prepositions
Week of Jan 30: The Parts of a Sentence
Week of Feb. 6: Complete Subject and Predicate
Week of Feb. 13: Simple Subject and Predicate
Week of Feb 20: Simple and Compound sentences
Week of Feb 27: Run-on Sentences
Week of March 6: Direct Objects
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Week of March 20: Indirect Objects
Week of March 27: Six Tenses of a Verb 
Week of Apr. 3: Active and Passive Voice
Week of Apr. 10: Prepositional Phrases
Week of Apr. 17: Clauses
Week of Apr. 24: Commas in Sentences
Week of: May 1
Week of May 8: Capitalization 
Week of May 15: Abbreviations
Week of May 22: Quotations
Week of May 29: Interjections
Week of June 5:  Synonyms and Antonyms
Week of June 12:Other Punctuation in Sentences
Week of June 19: Homophones and Homonyms
Week of June 26: Prefixes


*This is an ongoing class. Students may join any week. Classes do not build on each other.