LANGUAGE ARTS

       

          Language Arts provides numerous tools for sharing our lives with each other. Teaching others how to utilize those tools is one of my greatest delights. I love sharing books and how much we learn about our Creator, our world, and each other through reading. In coordination with our history studies, we use a three-year rotation of novels, short stories, and poetry. Literature is an attempt to make sense of the world around us from the perspective of the writer. Using some older literature and more recent literature that reflect similar themes, we’ll use the tools of reading comprehension, reflective writing, and vocabulary to better understand what we read.

 

 

          Language communicates knowledge, wisdom, and experience to others. Writing effectively and efficiently in our own voice, without fear of the editing process is the goal. Be prepared; we will write, edit, re-write, edit, and likely re-write again towards concise dynamic papers. Daily Grammar is our resource for reviewing punctuation and usage. History and science will provide the topics for our expository, persuasive, and descriptive essays. Writing of any kind can be very personal and intimidating. My hope is for class to provide the opportunity to try, perhaps even to mess up, to try again, and to gain confidence in the process as we encourage one another.