Instructor: Catherine Rodecker Description: During this course, students will dive into great literature. As we focus on reading and interacting with these incredible books, we will study vocabulary, reading comprehension, literary terms, and use scripture to discuss the deeper issues created by the plot and characters. Requirements: In this highly interactive class, students are expected to take turns speaking, stay on task and on topic, and most importantly to be polite and respectful to both their classmates and their teacher. Students should plan to spend 1 hour a week on homework assignments in addition to reading their assigned novels. Prerequisites:…

Instructor: Shannon Rosales Description: This course will cover grammar, mechanics of writing, and morphemes. Analytical Grammar will be our text to learn parts of speech, sentence patterns, and diagramming.  Jr. AG: Mechanics will cover capitalization and punctuation.  We will also learn roots, prefixes, and suffixes Word Roots. Requirements: This class will meet twice a week, and homework will be assigned each class period to be due the following class period. Tests and quizzes will be administered throughout the year.  Prerequisites: Fifth grade or higher reading level. Grades: Students will be graded on quizzes, homework, and tests. See All Courses Level…

Instructor: Candice Goode Description: This collection of writing lessons provides an incredible opportunity to increase your student’s understanding of Scripture as they improve their writing abilities. Working through all of IEW’s nine units—and beyond, these writing lessons use actual passages from Scripture as source texts. Requirements: During our weekly class time we will work through our new assignment together as a class. However, the majority of the student’s writing will occur at home during the week. Students will often read their prior week’s assignment aloud in class and I will collect all papers to check for required elements and lightly…