Course Syllabus

IEW Continuing

Medieval History Based Writing Lessons

Amy Hamfeldt

423-505-4270  

AJHamfeldt@explorershomeschool.com

 

Class Date

Assignment(s)

Point Value

Due Date

08/15/17

Intro, Review IEW process, Introduce Student Resource Notebook; Introduce vocab words

 

 

 

CANVAS – Capitalization Rules

5

08/17/17

 

CANVAS - Strong Verbs Video

5

08/17/17

 

WRITING Lessons 1 & 2 – details on CANVAS

30

08/22/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises (4 exercises @ 5 pts. each)

20

08/22/17

 

 

 

 

08/22/17

Who-Which clause; -ly words; sentence openers

 

 

 

CANVAS – Adverb Video

5

08/25/17

 

WRITING Lesson 3 – details on CANVAS

35

08/29/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

08/29/17

 

 

 

 

08/29/17

The writing process; Polishing your work; Sentence Openers

 

 

 

CANVAS – Vocab Quiz

10

09/05/17

 

CANVAS – Homophones, Part 1

5

09/01/17

 

WRITING Lesson – Polish Paragraph from Lessons 1 & 2

20(+5)

09/05/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

09/05/17

 

CANVAS – Extra Credit Adverbs

Plus 5

09/05/17

 

 

 

 

09/05/17

Story Sequence; alliteration; conversation; review Vocabulary

 

 

 

CANVAS – Conversation in writing THIS assignment CANCELED

5

09/08/17

 

CANVAS – Capitalization Rules Part 2

5

09/08/17

 

WRITING Lesson 6 – details on CANVAS

45

09/12/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

09/12/17

 

 

 

 

09/12/17

Review polishing your work

 

 

 

CANVAS – Fragments and Run-ons Video #1

5

09/15/17

 

CANVAS – more videos

5

09/15/17

 

CANVAS - Fun adjective video

5

9/19/17

 

WRITING Lesson 4 or 5 –     details on CANVAS

30

09/26/17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

09/19/17

Classes do not meet...BUT – check CANVAS

 

 

 

Alliteration, Assonance & onomatopoeia video 5 9/26/17

 

Fragment worksheet from 9/12/17

10

09/26/17

 

WRITING Lesson 6 – polished final draft

20

09/26/17

 

 

 

 

09/26/17

5 senses; dialogue; because clause; alliteration; onomotopea; assonance

 

 

 

CANVAS – Preposition Video

5

09/29/17

 

WRITING Lesson 7, 8, 9 or 10 – details on CANVAS

110

10/03/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

10/03/17

 

 

 

 

10/03/17

Introduce Reports – Summarizing a Reference

 

 

 

WRITING Lesson 11 – details on CANVAS

40

10/17/17

 

 

 

 

10/10/17

FALL BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/17/17

Sentence Openers; details from multiple source texts; ignoring irrelevant facts; VOCABULARY

 

 

 

WRITING Lessons 12 1st paragraph of 2 paragraph mini-report. KWO & brainstorming (pages 87 & 88) are required & graded

35

10/24/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

10/24/17

 

Watch Video on Adverbial Clause

5

10/20/17

 

 

 

 

10/24/17

Transition words; adding an introduction & conclusion to report; Lesson 13 -Completing a 2 paragraph mini-report; VOCABULARY

 

 

 

CANVAS – Vocab Quiz

10

10/27/17

 

CANVAS – Video on Subjects of Sentences

5

10/27/17

 

WRITING Lesson 13 – details on CANVAS

95

10/31/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

10/31/17

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/31/17

Overall introduction and Final clincher; transition words and phrases; vocabulary quiz in class

 

 

 

WRITING Lesson 13 – completion of 2 paragraph mini report; details on CANVAS

Tbd

11/07/17

 

CANVAS – 4 daily editing exercises

20

10/31/17

 

 

 

 

 11/7/17

Writing Lesson 14

 

 

 

 

 

 11/14/14

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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