HIGH SCHOOL English One Home or Group Set
High School English 1 – Home & Group Curriculum (Grades 9–10)
This high school English curriculum is designed for students 13-15 years old. The Home and Group version includes the student workbook used in One Day Academy’s English 1 course, along with a leader guide to support parents or tutors in guiding group instruction.
Like all of our Home and Group courses, this curriculum is designed to be taught once a week at home or in a group or co-op setting, with students completing the rest of their work independently under a parent’s supervision. This mirrors the One Day Academy model and gives families the flexibility to support learning throughout the week.
Students will explore a variety of writing styles, including narrative, descriptive, persuasive, informative, and creative writing. The course includes daily grammar and vocabulary practice, literary analysis, and instruction in MLA formatting through a career-focused research paper and presentation.
Process: High School English 1 is an introductory writing and composition course for the high school years. Students review basic grammar, punctuation, and sentence composition through daily grammar practice exercises. Students are also introduced to sentence variety and complexity through a focused study of clauses and phrases and will build on previous vocabulary study by continuing work with vocabulary roots and derivatives. Writing instruction includes scaffolded instruction for a variety of writing purposes: narrative, descriptive, persuasive, informative, personal narrative, and creative writing, as well as building literary analysis skills through the study of plot, literary terms, figurative language, imagery, and authors’ techniques. Students are introduced to research paper writing and Modern Language Association (MLA) formatting and citation through a career research paper and presentation.
Curriculum/Materials:
- For parents or group leaders: High School English One Leader Guide, by Terri Miller (included in set)
Student edition: High School English One Student Book, by Terri Miller (included in set). - Easy Grammar Ultimate Series, Teacher Edition-Grade 9, by Wanda Phillips (Parents should buy the teacher edition, rather than the student edition.)
- Sentence Composing for High School, by Don Killgallon
- Who Said What? A Writer’s Guide to Finding, Evaluating, Quoting, and Documenting Sources (And Avoiding Plagiarism), by Kayla Myers (This book is also required for High School English 2)