Syllabus
by Deborah Fanshawe
1. Course Information/ Instructor information
1.1. Course Title: English Language Arts - Grade 5/Unit 1
1.2. Course Time: Hybrid Class with 2 Face-to-Face classes Week 3 & 4. Monday-Friday 2-3 pm
1.3. Course location: Off the Wall Tutoring, LLC (Free WiFi) HOME | Off the Wall Tutoring
1.4. Instructor information: Instructor: Kaitlin Wall; Phone: 410-868–8159 Email: [email protected]
1.4.1. Tech Support on site
2. Course Objectives
2.1. Upon completion of this course, students will: Demonstrate effective writing using sentence combining and punctuation mechanics within the context of writing tasks.
3. Course Description: Discover digital tools for learning sentence combining, complex and sentence writing within the context of reading and writing tasks
3.1. Week 2 - F2F - LEARN: subject, predicate, writing subjects and predicts, letter punctuation
3.1.1. Week 1 - F2F - LEARN: sentences, commands, exclamations, sentence punctuation.
3.2. Week 3 - Online - REVIEW: subject, predicate (Week 2). LEARN: sentence combining (conjunctions), using commas to form compound sentences.
3.2.1. Week 4 - Online - LEARN: More sentence combining, complex sentences, writing complex sentences, quotations (mechanics)
4. Assignments/Quizzes
4.1. Where: Off the Wall Tutoring, LLC
4.2. Online Quizzes (Week 3 & 4) - Kahoot, PowerPoint, and four (4) Blog entries
4.3. Assignments Percentage of Grade: Quizzes 25% , Blog entries 50%, HW Readings 25% : After the Storm After the Storm; The First Dandelion by Walt Whitman
5. Required Materials:
5.1. McGraw-Hill Education. (2001). Grammar Practice Book Grade 5. McGraw-Hill School Division. Purchase discounted texts via Amazon
5.1.1. Desk top computer, or laptop
5.1.2. smartphone, or tablet
5.1.3. WiFi & internet access