Grades: 9-12th
Course Length: One Year
Available Credits: English 1.0 / US History 1.0 - Dual Credit Class

This course will guide the student in American Adventures reading books and writing a variety of genre. Selections and suggestions come from the expansive body of American Literature. Reading will come from books from your family library or the public library. As needed, you may add to your family library from suggested reading. As your writing coach, I may suggest that you submit more than one of an assignment to provide you with more practice on any part that you need extra practice. Also, I may ask you to edit an assignment again.

Students may work at their own pace, but the Weeks are outlined to help you complete the course in one school year. Each week a writing assignment is due students will upload (or create) the assignment onto a Google Doc. During our editing sessions, we will use Zoom to communicate and both student and instructor will be in the Google Doc.

Students may choose to read full-length books and, in some cases, short stories in one week allowing for time to do a research paper or project at the end of the year. Those following that plan and earning 90% and above on writing assignments will earn an A. Other students will read the full-length biographies in two weeks. Memorization of historical content provides students with enhanced learning skills and a framework to remember other content. Students should memorize as many of the memorization assignments as possible. (Presidents, speeches, poems). Students will keep track of the hours spent watching videos, reading and writing and submitting every week.

Students may earn up to 1 credit of English and 1 credit of American History. Students wanting to earn 2 credits from this class should plan on working 2 hours every school day. You will notice that some weeks have A, B, C activities. Parent, teacher and student will have a discussion before and possibly during the course to customize the course for each student. We will monitor hours it takes to do the work and the difficulty level for each student. Thus, we can create an advanced, college prep course as well as a more streamlined for other students. Further, students may receive U.S. History, Literature and Composition credits depending on how the course is customized.

The book for use in this class is included in the cost of the course.