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The English and Language Arts program at Cornerstone Christian Academy blends the best of Christian and secular materials. Using a literature anthology published by Christian publisher Mosdos Press as well as classic literature, students are exposed to a variety of genre. Vocabulary, spelling, grammar and writing are taught using materials from publishers ABeka Book and Sadlier-Oxford. All grades also outline and write research papers following MLA guidelines. Cornerstone’s ELA benchmarks are aligned with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.
Grade 5
Reading and Literature
- Oral reading
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary building
- Literary elements include plot, character, setting, theme, and conflict, along with rhyme, alliteration, consonance, assonance, and rhyme scheme
- Stories and poems by authors such as Asimov, George, Wilder, Kipling, and Tennyson
- Novels include Number the Stars by Lois Lowry, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbit, and The Magician's Nephew by C. S. Lewis.
Grammar
- Recognizing and diagramming all eight parts of speech
- Recognizing and diagramming complements
- Sentences and Sentence parts
- Punctuation, capitalization, and quotation facts
- Word usage
Grade 6
Reading and Literature
- Oral Reading
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary building
- Literary elements include foreshadowing, point of view, internal and external conflict, cause and effect, plot, character, tense, and theme, along with simile, metaphor, rhyme, rhyme scheme, onomatopoeia, and alliteration.
- Stories and poems by authors such as George, Hunt, Haley, London, Welty, Saroyan, and Frost
- Novels include Shane by Jack Schaefer and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Grammar
- Sentences and sentence parts
- Punctuation, capitalization and quotation facts
- Fragments and run-ons
- Recognizing and diagramming all eight parts of speech
- Paragraph development
- Essay structures and development
Grade 7
Reading and Literature
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary building
- Literary elements include foreshadowing, point of view, characterization, internal and external conflict, cause and effect, plot, tense, dialogue, imagery, moral and theme, along with simile, metaphor, rhyme, rhyme scheme, onomatopoeia, and alliteration.
- Stories and poems by authors such as Tolstoy, Aesop, Thurber, London, and Fulghum
- Novels include White Fang by Jack London and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Grammar
- Capitalization rules
- Punctuation rules
- Kinds of sentences and diagramming
- Eight parts of speech and their uses
- Diagramming eight parts of speech
- Sentence structure
Grade 8
Reading and Literature
- Reading comprehension
- Vocabulary building
- Literary elements include foreshadowing, setting, point of view, characterization, internal and external conflict, cause and effect, plot, tense, dialogue, imagery, symbolism, moral and theme, along with simile, metaphor, rhyme, rhyme scheme, onomatopoeia, and alliteration.
- Stories and poems by authors such as Thurber, London, Bradbury, Lawrence, Dahl, Henry, Hemingway, Dove, Whitman, Frost, and Hughes
- Novels include Antigone by Sophocles and The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Grammar
- Capitalization rules
- Punctuation rules
- Kinds of sentences and diagramming
- Eight parts of speech and their uses
- Diagramming eight parts of speech
- Sentence structure
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