English Topics in Middle School
by Haley Thompson
1. Discourse
1.1. Genre
1.1.1. Narrative
1.1.1.1. 1st person
1.1.1.2. 2nd person
1.1.2. Persuasive
1.1.3. Report
1.1.4. Procedure
1.2. Format
1.2.1. MLA
1.2.2. APA
2. Literary Devices
2.1. Alliteration
2.2. Metaphors
2.3. Simile
2.4. Onomatopoeia
2.5. Oxymoron
2.6. Personification
3. Tense
3.1. Past
3.2. Present
3.3. Future
4. Sentences
4.1. Compound
4.1.1. Independent clauses
4.2. Simple
4.2.1. Dependent clause
4.3. Clause
4.4. Syntax
4.4.1. Predicate
4.4.2. Process
4.4.3. Participant
5. 8 Parts of speech
5.1. Nouns
5.1.1. Person
5.1.2. Place
5.1.3. Thing
5.1.4. Noun Phrases
5.2. Pronouns
5.3. Adjectives
5.4. Adverbs
5.5. Verbs
5.5.1. Verb Phrases
5.6. Conjunctions
5.6.1. For
5.6.2. And
5.6.3. Nor
5.6.4. But
5.6.5. Or
5.6.6. So
5.6.7. Yet
5.7. Interjections
6. Reading, writing, and spelling
6.1. Morphemes
6.2. Phonics
6.2.1. Schwa
6.2.2. Diagraphs
6.2.3. Phonemes
6.2.4. Syntax Cues
6.2.5. Blends
6.2.6. Diphthongs