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GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND
WRITING STRUCTURES: GRADE 6 ★
Entering Grade 6 – This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and expand their academic vocabulary. They will carry out writing assignments based on readings from a variety of informational texts that are appropriate to the grade level. Students will learn to write a variety of sentence types and incorporate them into expository paragraphs and short essays. The class will also include focused grammar study. Students will learn to diagram sentences and will leave the course with a portfolio of their work.
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND
WRITING STRUCTURES: GRADE 7 ★
Entering Grade 7 – This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and expand their academic vocabulary. They will carry out writing assignments based on readings from a variety of
informational texts that are appropriate to the grade level. Students will learn to write a variety of sentence types and incorporate them into expository paragraphs and short essays. The class will also include focused grammar study. Students will learn to diagram sentences and will leave the course with a portfolio of their work.
GRAMMAR, VOCABULARY AND
WRITING STRUCTURES: GRADE 8 ★
Entering Grade 8 – This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and expand their academic vocabulary. They will carry out writing assignments based on readings from a variety of informational texts that are appropriate to the grade level. Students will learn to write a variety of sentence types and incorporate them into expository paragraphs and short essays. The class will also include focused grammar study. Students will learn to diagram sentences and will leave the course with a portfolio of their work.
★ Meets Common Core standards
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June 17-July 12
GRADES 6-9
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
