English IIIA (Prescriptive)Course Outline

Module Lesson Description Scored

01: Parts of Speech 01: Pretest Parts of Speech This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about the parts of speech. Nouns and Pronouns This lesson identifies and describes the various types of nouns and pronouns. It also examines how these word parts are used in sentences. Verbs This lesson identifies different kinds of verbs and explores how verb phrases are used in sentences. Adjectives and Adverbs This lesson identifies adjectives and adverbs, and it shows students how to use them in sentences. Prepositions, Conjunctions, This lesson explains how to use prepositions, prepositional phrases, and Interjections conjunctions, and interjections. Total Time in Module 01: Parts of Speech: 02: Sentence Parts, Phrases, and Clauses 02: Pretest Sentence Parts, Phrases, and Clauses Subjects and Predicates Complements Appositive Phrases No Yes

Yes Yes Yes

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about sentence parts, phrases, and clauses. This lesson identifies complete subjects and predicates. It also identifies simple and compound subjects and predicates. This lesson describes how to identify and use direct objects, indirect objects, objective complements, and subject complements. This lesson examines how to identify and use adjective and adverb prepositional phrases as well as appositives and appositive phrases.

No Yes Yes Yes

Verbals and Verbal Phrases This lesson discusses participles, gerunds, and infinitives, and it explores their use in phrases. Clauses This lesson discusses adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. 02: Posttest 03: Effective Sentences 03: Pretest Effective Sentences

Yes Yes

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about effective sentences.

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Sentence Combining and Sentence Variety Fragments, Run-ons, and Modifiers Faulty Parallelism and Coordination 03: Posttest 04: Usage 04: Pretest Usage Verb Tenses

This lesson explains how to revise written passages by combining sentences. It also discusses how to improve passages by varying sentence length, beginnings, and structure. This lesson describes how to recognize and correct sentence fragments, run-on sentences, misplaced modifiers, and dangling modifiers. This lesson explains how to identify and correct faulty parallelism and coordination.

Yes

Yes

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Subjunctive Mood and Voice Pronoun Case and Usage

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about usage. This lesson focuses on the identification and use of regular and irregular verbs, including the correct use of the four principal parts of verbs. The lesson also covers verb conjugation and the proper sequencing of tenses. This lesson explains how to revise for the subjunctive mood and to distinguish between active and passive voice. This lesson covers the use of pronouns in the nominative, objective, and possessive cases. It also discusses the correct use of who vs. whom and the use of pronouns in elliptical clauses.

No Yes

Yes Yes

04: Posttest 05: Agreement and Modifiers 05: Pretest Agreement and Modifiers Subject and Verb Agreement Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement Making Comparisons

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about agreement and modifiers. This lesson covers agreement between verbs and singular, plural, and compound subjects. This lesson covers agreement between antecedents and personal, indefinite, and reflexive pronouns. This lesson focuses on the identification and use of the three degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative. It also discusses how to make logical and balanced comparisons.

No Yes Yes Yes

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06: Mechanics and Punctuation 06: Pretest Mechanics and Punctuation This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to No themes and topics about mechanics and punctuation. Capitalization This lesson discusses the correct use of capital letters, including their Yes use with quotations, lines of poetry, and titles of individuals and works. Commas This lesson covers the correct use of commas, including their use with Yes compound sentences, items in a series, and parenthetical and nonessential expressions. This lesson focuses on the correct use of semicolons and colons. Yes This lesson covers the correct use of quotation marks and underlining. Yes This lesson focuses on the correct use of dashes, parentheses, brackets, and hyphens. Yes

Semicolons and Colons Quotation Marks and Underlining Other Punctuation Marks 06: Posttest 07: Vocabulary and Spelling 07: Pretest Vocabulary and Spelling

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to No themes and topics about vocabulary and spelling. Developing Vocabulary This lesson explains how to rely on context, including connotation and Yes denotation, to determine meaning of words and phrases. It also explains how to recognize relationships among words, including synonyms, antonyms, and analogies. Word Study and Word Parts This lesson examines the use of resource materials to help determine Yes vocabulary meaning and usage. It also covers the use of prefixes, roots, suffixes, and etymologies to aid in vocabulary comprehension. Improving Your Spelling 07: Posttest This lesson identifies ways to improve spelling, including the application of spelling rules. Yes

08: Academic and Workplace Skills 08: Pretest Academic and Workplace Skills

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about academic and workplace skills. Page 3 of 8

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Module Lesson Description Scored

Speaking and Listening

This lesson discusses effective communication in groups and examines the use of critical listening skills. It also explains how to give effective and ethical oral presentations. Viewing and Representing This lesson examines how to interpret and use graphic organizers, brochures, maps, and graphs. It also discusses how to view fine art and information media critically. Finally, it explains how to give effective multimedia presentations. Study, Reference, and Test- This lesson examines the use of strategies to improve study habits, Taking Skills including note-taking. It also examines methods for performing effectively on objective tests. Finally, it explains how to use library resources, including dictionaries. Workplace Skills and This lesson describes how to communicate and work effectively with Competencies others in a workplace setting. It also explains how to use effective goalsetting and problem-solving strategies. Workplace Writing This lesson describes how to write business letters, memos, rsums, forms, and applications. 08: Posttest

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English IIIA (Sequential/Open) Course Outline

Module
01: Parts of Speech

Lesson

Description

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Parts of Speech

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about the parts of speech. Nouns and Pronouns This lesson identifies and describes the various types of nouns and pronouns. It also examines how these word parts are used in sentences. Verbs This lesson identifies different kinds of verbs and explores how verb phrases are used in sentences. Adjectives and Adverbs This lesson identifies adjectives and adverbs, and it shows students how to use them in sentences. Prepositions, Conjunctions, and This lesson explains how to use prepositions, prepositional Interjections phrases, conjunctions, and interjections. 01: Posttest 02: Sentence Parts, Phrases, and Clauses Sentence Parts, Phrases, and Clauses Subjects and Predicates

No Yes

Yes Yes Yes

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive No guide to themes and topics about sentence parts, phrases, and clauses. This lesson identifies complete subjects and predicates. It also Yes identifies simple and compound subjects and predicates. This lesson describes how to identify and use direct objects, indirect objects, objective complements, and subject complements. This lesson examines how to identify and use adjective and adverb prepositional phrases as well as appositives and appositive phrases. This lesson discusses participles, gerunds, and infinitives, and it explores their use in phrases. This lesson discusses adjective, adverb, and noun clauses. Yes

Complements

Appositive Phrases

Yes

Verbals and Verbal Phrases Clauses 02: Posttest 03: Effective Sentences Effective Sentences Sentence Combining and Sentence Variety

Yes Yes

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about effective sentences. This lesson explains how to revise written passages by combining sentences. It also discusses how to improve passages by varying sentence length, beginnings, and structure. Page 5 of 8

No Yes

English IIIA (Sequential/Open) Course Outline

Module

Lesson
Fragments, Run-ons, and Modifiers Faulty Parallelism and Coordination 03: Posttest

Description
This lesson describes how to recognize and correct sentence fragments, run-on sentences, misplaced modifiers, and dangling modifiers. This lesson explains how to identify and correct faulty parallelism and coordination.

Scored
Yes

Yes

04: Usage Usage Verb Tenses This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about usage. This lesson focuses on the identification and use of regular and irregular verbs, including the correct use of the four principal parts of verbs. The lesson also covers verb conjugation and the proper sequencing of tenses. This lesson explains how to revise for the subjunctive mood and to distinguish between active and passive voice. This lesson covers the use of pronouns in the nominative, objective, and possessive cases. It also discusses the correct use of who vs. whom and the use of pronouns in elliptical clauses. No Yes

Subjunctive Mood and Voice Pronoun Case and Usage

Yes Yes

04: Posttest 05: Agreement and Modifiers Agreement and Modifiers

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about agreement and modifiers.

No

Subject and Verb Agreement Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement Making Comparisons

This lesson covers agreement between verbs and singular, Yes plural, and compound subjects. This lesson covers agreement between antecedents and Yes personal, indefinite, and reflexive pronouns. This lesson focuses on the identification and use of the three Yes degrees of comparison: positive, comparative, and superlative. It also discusses how to make logical and balanced comparisons.

05: Posttest 06: Mechanics and Punctuation Mechanics and Punctuation

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive No guide to themes and topics about mechanics and punctuation.

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Module

Lesson
Capitalization

Description
This lesson discusses the correct use of capital letters, including their use with quotations, lines of poetry, and titles of individuals and works. This lesson covers the correct use of commas, including their use with compound sentences, items in a series, and parenthetical and nonessential expressions. This lesson focuses on the correct use of semicolons and colons. This lesson covers the correct use of quotation marks and underlining. This lesson focuses on the correct use of dashes, parentheses, brackets, and hyphens.

Scored
Yes

Commas

Yes

Semicolons and Colons Quotation Marks and Underlining Other Punctuation Marks 06: Posttest 07: Vocabulary and Spelling Vocabulary and Spelling Developing Vocabulary

Yes Yes Yes

This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive guide to themes and topics about vocabulary and spelling. This lesson explains how to rely on context, including connotation and denotation, to determine meaning of words and phrases. It also explains how to recognize relationships among words, including synonyms, antonyms, and analogies. This lesson examines the use of resource materials to help determine vocabulary meaning and usage. It also covers the use of prefixes, roots, suffixes, and etymologies to aid in vocabulary comprehension. This lesson identifies ways to improve spelling, including the application of spelling rules.

No Yes

Word Study and Word Parts

Yes

Improving Your Spelling 07: Posttest

Yes

08: Academic and Workplace Skills Academic and Workplace Skills This lesson contains an overview video and an interactive No guide to themes and topics about academic and workplace skills. Speaking and Listening This lesson discusses effective communication in groups and Yes examines the use of critical listening skills. It also explains how to give effective and ethical oral presentations.

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English IIIA (Sequential/Open) Course Outline

Module

Lesson
Viewing and Representing

Description
This lesson examines how to interpret and use graphic organizers, brochures, maps, and graphs. It also discusses how to view fine art and information media critically. Finally, it explains how to give effective multimedia presentations. This lesson examines the use of strategies to improve study habits, including note-taking. It also examines methods for performing effectively on objective tests. Finally, it explains how to use library resources, including dictionaries. This lesson describes how to communicate and work effectively with others in a workplace setting. It also explains how to use effective goal-setting and problem-solving strategies. This lesson describes how to write business letters, memos, rsums, forms, and applications.

Scored
Yes

Study, Reference, and TestTaking Skills

Yes

Workplace Skills and Competencies

Yes

Workplace Writing 08: Posttest

Yes

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