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Language Lessons for a Living Education 7

SKU
028278
ISBN
9781683443315
Grade 7
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Charlotte Mason
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Product Overview

  • Language arts with a biblical worldview and assessments. Just add literature
  • Open and go, single text, 7th grade ELA, with a flexible schedule
  • Students grow in their communication and writing skills from paragraphs to essays
  • Charlotte Mason-flavored. Includes pictures, Scripture, and quotation studies
Sample 1
Language Lessons for a Living Education 7

Description

 Scaling up from their Grade 6 ELA, Language Lessons for a Living Education 7 emphasizes language arts as skills crucial in communication. Two additional unique topics related to ELA are worldview studies and communication. First, a scriptural worldview permeates the lessons. Students will study this scriptural worldview using the required God’s Story and will practice applying this worldview in analyzing literature. Secondly, this course’s communication focus also encompasses etiquette, body language, and writing assignments—all with the goal of growing in communication with others and God. Special, daily features will rotate between quotation; picture; hymn; scripture; poem; and vocabulary studies: also adding Scripture memory. The quote studies (using published texts pulled from various MasterBooks publications) ask students to answer questions while discussing book-related concepts. Writing assignments will include descriptive, comparison/contrast, expository, and persuasive paragraphs; character sketches (of real and imagined people), book reviews, essays, and creating a bibliography. Within these assignments, grammar and mechanics will be consistently reviewed and applied.

  Weekly review gives students opportunities to review Scripture memorization; vocabulary; grammar; and Biblical worldview concepts. In addition, communication review emphasizes ways to strengthen the student’s writing skills, often having the parent (or someone else) read and respond to the writing assignment. Based on this input, students will make corrections, with their final draft emphasizing their best handwriting.

  A plethora of teaching resources are found at the back of the text. These include reading lists, additional communication assignments, and bonus activities for each lesson. Helps for writing assignments include writing templates for paragraphs, character sketches, book reports, critical book reviews, and essays. Additionally, you’ll find each lesson’s spelling lists, a compendium of spelling rules and exceptions, grammar and communication study sheets, assessments, and lesson answers. 

Publisher's Description of Language Lessons for a Living Education 7

Ignite a love for communication with Master Books’ award winning homeschool curriculum: Language Lessons for a Living Education. Language Lessons Level 7 is an engaging, full-color course helping students to learn and practice foundational communication skills through essays, summaries, and oral presentations. Successful communication is achieved as students learn new grammar and punctuation rules throughout the writing process. The study of etiquette, verbal and non-verbal communication, and worldview sets this course above the rest.

Level 7 is equivalent to a seventh-grade level and moves the student toward mastery of reading and grammar, as well as the mechanics of communication and writing. Lessons are scheduled for five days a week and can be accomplished in approximately 40 minutes.

Category Description for Language Lessons for a Living Education Level 7

"Through literature" is the operative phrase in this series. It is what you would expect, after all, of a series incorporating a Charlotte Mason approach to language arts skills. Together the teacher and student travel through literature - poetry, well-loved books, fables, and stories. You pause along the way, of course, taking time to appreciate the story and learn the grammatical structure of the English language, giving the student opportunity through copywork (a Commonplace book replaces this in Levels F and up), some narration, and working slowly through the Progymnasmata methods to become immersed in quality writing models. Picture studies complement the literature and provide the means for students to put their thoughts into words and develop their observation skills. Just for good measure, the author has included some memory work grammatical lists and definitions. Taken altogether, the result is an easy-to-use, holistic approach to English that is thoroughly consistent with Charlotte Mason, and yet meatier than some programs with a similar bent. Compared to some, it also has a more updated "feel" even though many of the literature selections are "timeless" (i.e. a little old-fashioned). Workbooks are available at specific levels as a convenience factor.  

The author considers English Lessons Through Literature secular but inclusive, pulling readings from Christian, Buddhist, Taoist, and Jewish writings as well as ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Since these are included as literature and not as religious instruction, we at Rainbow consider this curriculum Neutral. See each level’s description for specifics on the specific reading selections. ~ Janice/Ruth

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Product Format:Paperback
Grade:7
Brand:Master Book Publishers
ISBN:9781683443315
Length in Inches:10.875
Width in Inches:8.375
Height in Inches:1.125
Weight in Pounds:2.85
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