English, Grammar #academic

CLASS HOLIDAY POLICY FOR MS. STACEY’S FLEX CLASSES

Holidays are very personal to each person.  Sometimes a student will not take a class that crosses a holiday.  Please touch base.  I am VERY flexible with dates.  If your family celebrates a holiday that a FLEX class ‘meets’, let me know and I’ll extend the class on the week that you need to be out, your materials will be posted the week you return. 

As we walk into the end of the year Holidays,  know that I will be adding a week to each session that crosses Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's.  I will NOT add those dates until we cross the Holiday, all work that would have been due the holiday week, will not be due until that make-up week. 

If you've looked at my course list, you've seen how much I love English.  I love the interesting way that words came about and how they go together. I love it when an author cobbles together the right words that help me to see their point of view.  I love the ability to communicate and share my own ideas intelligently.  And I love the ability of my students to work on these classes at any old time that fits.  I mean, that's why you take Flexible classes, right?  The ability to do the work on your own schedule?

In this 15-week course, we will explore the rules behind the written English language.  How do the words fit together?  What are parts of speech and what do they do?  There will be a lesson video each week and I will provide homework and digital tests for a week’s worth of independent work.  Please expect your student to work from 30-45 minutes per day, 4 days per week on the materials outside of class.

While asynchronous, this class is very interactive.   Each week there will be videos and quizzes, games or inspirational lessons to play with.  And, as with all of my classes, I'm very active in the classroom with comments and personalized videos to help your student on their path.

Every family will work a little differently with the material, here is one idea for how the lessons may lay out in your home.

Monday, get up, print out your Grammar Binder and view the lesson video, working through the classroom practice with me.
Tuesday, work through Independent Pages 1 and 2
Wednesday, Check the classroom.  Find a mini-lesson from me, or maybe a Quizlet or a Kahoot! to practice your skills.  Leave me a comment or maybe even a video of your own.
Thursday, work through Independent Pages 3 and 4
Friday, Check the classroom, find a Feedback video for last week's test.  Use the Student Key Sheets to check your Independent Work for the week.  Discover that you are a GRAMMAR PRO.  Take your test, and, of course, ACE IT!

So you are able to see the breadth of our semester I will include approximate project plans for the semester. Please, make sure to reference the Outschool Classroom Page for final assignments.  All class materials and videos will be available in the classroom at midnight (Mountain Time) on Monday mornings.

Week 1	Intro and the Basics of Things (Capitalization/Punctuation)
Week 2	Sentence 101 (The basic elements and structure of a sentence)
Week 3	The Purpose of a Sentence 
Week 4	Where? When? How? (Prepositions, Prepositional, and Adverbial Phrases
Week 5	Intro to Pronouns, Possessives, and Run-on Sentences
Week 6	Help me out (Helping Verbs)
Week 7	Interjections and clauses
Week 8	Patterns and Tenses
Week 9	Me, We, She, He, They…Who? (Pronouns)
Week 10	More Patterns
Week 11	Predicate Nouns, More Pronouns
Week 12	Predicate Adjectives and Degrees of Comparison
Week 13	Far more Compound (F, S, SCS, SCV, CD, CX)
Week 14	Literature deconstructed
Week 15	Review of all the Things