HIGH SCHOOL English One for Co-Ops and Classrooms
Pre-order 2025 Editions now!
Download a Free Sample Below
High School English 1 – Co-ops & Classrooms Curriculum (Ages 13–15)
This high school English curriculum is designed for students ready to build strong writing and analysis skills. The Co-ops and Classrooms version includes the student coursebook used in One Day Academy’s High School English 1 course, along with a leader guide to support instruction in a group setting.
This course gives the option to be taught once a week in a co-op or classroom environment, with students completing assignments independently at home throughout the week under the supervision of a parent or tutor.
Students will review grammar and punctuation while expanding their writing skills through a variety of formats, including narrative, persuasive, informative, and creative writing.
Literary analysis is woven into the reading and writing process, helping students interpret themes, imagery, figurative language, and authors’ techniques.
The course also includes instruction in research writing and MLA formatting through a career-focused project.
- High School English 1 Student coursebook, by Terri Miller, purchased through ODA bookstore
- 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)
Purpose
High School English 1 introduces students to a variety of writing types and purposes, as well as literary analysis elements and techniques. These include narrative, descriptive, and persuasive writing, literary analysis, basic essay writing, and research and presentation skills.
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.
Parental Responsibilities
Parents are responsible for helping students establish a routine that includes daily grammar and sentence writing practice as well as time to work on required homework and class preparation. Parents are responsible for grading anything with a key, which includes Vocabulary and Grammar, while teachers will grade all writing, compositions, and exams. It is highly recommended that parents review student writing and offer feedback before final drafts are turned in.
