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English 8 has 124 lessons divided into 11 chapters. The first two chapters deal with sentence elements and sentence structure. Objective complements, elliptical sentences, and compound-complex sentences are introduced. Chapter 3 teaches concepts about capitalization and punctuation. Dashes, parentheses, and brackets are introduced. Chapters 4-10 focus on the parts of speech. These chapters re-enforce what has been taught in earlier grades and introduce retained objects, dangling participles, and relative adverbs. Problem words are discussed, and there's plenty of sentence diagramming. Chapter 11 deals with using reference helps and the public library. Composition lessons introduce persuasive arguments and teach effective sentences, paragraph construction, proofreading, outlines, story writing, sentences, paragraph construction, proofreading, outlines, story writing, and poetry at deeper levels. Over one-third of the book deals with composition. A booklet of 42 worksheets offers extra practice. The sheets may be copied as needed in teaching this English course. The test booklet includes chapter tests and a final test.

Speed drills for Exploring Arithmetic. 170 pages This tablet of speed drills provides timed practice in the basic facts. They are designed to be used every other lesson. Answers are in the teacher's guide on the page of the lesson they are associated with.