Week 1
Lesson 1
The History of English 
We will start by learning more about the history of the English language and how some historical events have impacted our spelling system. We'll also be 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
Morphemes, Phonemes and Graphemes
Students will learn the definitions of phonemes, graphemes, and morphemes and how they work together to spell words.
 Week 3
Lesson 3
Suffixing Conventions Part 1
A closer look at suffixing and figuring out the suffixing rules for dropping a silent e and changing y to an 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 learn when to double a final consonant in a base when adding a suffix
 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
Review and Practice Through Word Building
Students will have a chance to review and practice the suffixing rules by building words from a matrix, and working with both bound bases and free bases. 
 Week 7
Lesson 7
4 Questions
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 continue to practice using etymonline to do research into a word's history.
 Week 8
Lesson 8
Etymological Markers and Summing Up 
In the final lesson of the class, we'll take a look at some words that have etymological markers; learn what they are and how we can do research to understand why words are spelled the way they are.  We'll also summarize our learning from this class.