Enjoy a faith-based and comprehensive 1-year language arts course for 11th-grade high school that is packed with creative writing exercises, critical thinking and faith activities, and more! Enjoy these features:
- Focused: Engaging full-color exercises for 11th-grade high school, eligible for 1 English credit
- Flexible: 50-minutes per exercise, 5 days a week, or customize it to your own schedule
- Practical applications: Critical thinking drills, faith tie-ins, and extension activities
- Ready-to-Use: No prep necessary! Preset schedule with open-and-go lesson plans, and assessments and answer keys for weekly review
- Time-Saving: Convenient daily schedule with perforated, 3-hole punched worksheets for grab-and-go ease
Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 11 Objectives
Equip upper-level high school students by sharpening their communication skills in preparation for college and/or career settings. A focus on logic in writing assists students in creating strong and persuasive essays and prepares them to share thoughts and opinions effectively. Students learn and practice communication skills through essays, summaries, oral presentations, book reviews, grammar practice, and written prayers. Research skills are strengthened through research essays and application of the APA citation style. Course objectives include:
- Special Features engage students, teaching creativity, spelling, and vocabulary.
- Grammar & Punctuation sets up a foundation for high school concepts that are applied through writing.
- Students are equipped with biblical application for expression, essay writing, and speaking.
- Worldview & Literary Analysis teaches literary devices, critical thinking, and biblical worldview application.
- Review Days provide reinforcement for all concepts and may be used as assessments.
Course Overview:
Each lesson employs a variety of features preparing the student for quality communication throughout high school and beyond.
- Exercise 1 of each lesson begins with a special feature, vocabulary and spelling words, and Scripture memory.
- Exercise 2 is devoted to grammar and punctuation, including application.
- Exercise 3 is all about communication. Students develop skills in the areas of logical reasoning, essay writing, public speaking, citing sources, communicating with God, and self-evaluation.
- Exercise 4 is the worldview and literary analysis day. Students will study various pieces of writing including poetry, legends, folklore, historical accounts, and biblical accounts, while analyzing the worldview presented and learning several literary devices.
- Exercise 5 is a review of what students have learned in the lesson. This review may be used as a quiz or test, whether open book or traditional style.
Be sure to keep all the pages of this course as the student progresses through it. Many assignments require the student to look back at previous definitions, charts, and assignments.
DR. NATHANIEL JEANSON received his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, he researched the molecular control of photosynthesis, and his graduate work involved investigating the molecular and physiological control of adult blood stem cells. His findings have been presented at regional and national conferences, and have been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Blood, Nature, and Cell. Since 2009, he has been actively researching the origin of species, both at the Institute for Creation Research and at Answers in Genesis.
