English

Description:

This course is designed as a review of the basic elements of effective writing and a reinforcement of the fundamentals of grammar. This course is essentially divided in two parts—composition and grammar. The first part emphasizes the thinking process and develops a sound writing strategy. These basic elements of effective writing are then applied to writing an essay, a research paper, and an article of opinion. The second part focuses on grammar, highlighting various grammatical issues that are challenging or prone to error.

Description:

This course offers a study of English grammar and usage with emphasis on written communication skills. Grammar and usage topics include capitalization, punctuation, sentence structure and diagramming, verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Composition topics include manuscript form; the writing process; using a dictionary; usage and diction; library research; making an outline; expository writing; improving writing style; and writing paragraphs, critical book reviews, précis, research papers, and character and type sketches.

Description:

This course emphasizes the advanced principles of grammar and creative writing as well as vocabulary and spelling development. Students will study compound, concrete, abstract, and collective nouns; subject-verb agreement; transitive and intransitive verbs; subordinating conjunctions; adverbial, adjective, and elliptical clauses; appositives; and tense, voice, and mood of verbs. Student will then apply these concepts in the composition of various types of paragraphs and a research paper.

Description:

This course provides continued training in the advanced principles of grammar, punctuation, and composition, in addition to vocabulary and spelling development. Students will study participial phrases; gerunds; infinitives; various types of clauses; compound sentences; conjunctive adverbs; reflexive, intensive, and indefinite pronouns; grammatical agreement; voice, tense, mood, and conjugation of verbs; and figurative language. Composition projects teach students how to write narrative, descriptive, and argumentative paragraphs, and how to outline and write an essay.

Description:

This course presents a background to the study of world literature featuring the use of short story, essay, and narrative and descriptive poetry. Each reading selection includes author biographical information and questions to encourage thoughtful interaction and Christian character development. The textbook introduces the meaning and use of such literary terms and forms as: character development, narrative poetry, plot, imagery and figurative language, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, poetry patterns and forms, paradox, and setting. The course features classic literary works by such authors as Dickens, Browning, Frost, Holmes, Tennyson, Poe, Doyle, Keats, and Cummings.

Description:

This course presents a background to the study of world literature featuring the use of short story, essay, and narrative and descriptive poetry. Each reading selection includes author biographical information and questions to encourage thoughtful interaction and Christian character development. The textbook introduces the meaning and use of such literary terms and forms as: character development, narrative poetry, plot, imagery and figurative language, theme, rhyme and rhythm, emotion, poetry patterns and forms, paradox, and setting. The course features classic literary works by such authors as Dickens, Browning, Frost, Holmes, Tennyson, Poe, Doyle, Keats, and Cummings.

Description:

This course provides a chronological study of classic American literature from the early 1600s to the twentieth century. Detailed historical sections, timelines, and author biographies provide background information on the people, forces, and philosophies that shaped the various literary styles and periods. Featured authors include William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Crosby, Frost, Sandburg, and Hemingway.

Description:

This course provides a chronological study of classic American literature from the early 1600s to the twentieth century. Detailed historical sections, timelines, and author biographies provide background information on the people, forces, and philosophies that shaped the various literary styles and periods. Featured authors include William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, Irving, Longfellow, Emerson, Melville, Dickinson, Clemens, Crosby, Frost, Sandburg, and Hemingway.

Description:

This course provides a chronological study of classic English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the twentieth century. Selections in the textbook include such diverse forms as poems and hymns, short stories, essays, and excerpts from novels and plays. Authors featured in the textbook include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wesley, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Dickens, Shaw, and Orwell. Background material, brief author biographies, and histories of each time period are provided, along with a glossary of literary terms.