Grammar Curriculum by Grade

The Teacher Edition is reproducible for your own students and has an answer key.

This book continues to lay a foundation for the student's effectiveness in communicating with the English language. The student will review the basics of English grammar, focusing on parts of speech, using phrases and clauses properly, diagramming key words, phrases, and clauses, writing and diagramming sentences, and clarifying agreement in sentences. The final unit covers good composition.

Through clearly drawn characters and a plot on target for today's teen society, Stealing Time tells the story of 17-year-old Ross' dealing with the pressures of peer power, maniplation, and a dangerous test of his courage and character. He is new in town and the high school and trying to cope with the death of his father. He cannot yet refocus on academics, but he does know that life continues to flow around him. He is not ready to become a part of it again. He is intelligent, introspective, and attractive in a jock sort of way. His chance meeting with Claire brings him into sinister Ted Bartle's orbit and marks Ross as Bartle's next pawn to achieve a point ... the fair Claire. Ted Bartle is wealthy, smooth and mean-spirited. To be a member of his group is to be controlled, involved in seemy happenings, theft and worse. He plots and ensnares Ross. Claire is level-headed and knows much about Bartle. She feels the rest; including his responsibility for her brother's death. Having gone through a similar depression as Ross, she understands his feelings and reaches out to him. Her support enables Ross to begin to relate again; first to her, later in an attempt at friendship with a fellow male student, who ultimately saves his life. Teens will be captured and held by realistic characterization, Ross' inner turmoil, and a fast-paced action-line. Important underpinnings of friendship are clear: caring, communicating, valuing and supportive action. Professor and Chair in the Department of Elementary Education at Queens College, New York, Dr. Sloan directs and teaches in the Children's Literature Specialization within the Master's Program. She is a recognized author in academia, an activecommitteewoman and board member of the NCTE, and on the Board of Directors of The Children's Literature Association of the MLA. Stealing Time is her first novel.

The story of a young African boy who is brought to Schweitzer's clinic for an infection in his foot. There, he comes to admire the doctor and wishes to become a doctor himself. But before he can do so, there is much that he has to learn and unlearn. He finds a place and a set of duties at the hospital only to be sent away by Dr. Schweitzer when his foot has healed. Years later, the boy returns a doctor, and later still, a teacher of doctors.