Honors Language Arts 5

Choose the right level

This course is recommended for students entering Grade 5. We recommend students enroll in Language Arts courses at grade level.

Curriculum

Each 18-week term will cover 2 units, with each unit featuring a long-term project that integrates a variety of reading, writing, critical thinking, and grammar skills.

Honors LA 5A

• Research: Students select a famously unsolved mystery, then conduct a short research project to investigate the unknown. Students will create a case file on their mystery, which they'll pitch as the subject of a new TV miniseries.
• Persuasion: In their examination of the sinking of the Titanic, students learn how to maneuver through conflicting points of view in cross-examination.

Honors LA 5B

• Expository Essays: The disappearance of Amelia Earhart is the foundation of this unit, in which students learn how to build a strong, fact-based thesis. Students conclude the unit by writing an informative essay and interviewing each other for a new mystery documentary.
• Narrative Fiction: Students craft original historical fiction by selecting a topic & conducting story-building research into the time period to build a rich, accurate setting and plot.

Students must purchase the required books before the start of the course.

Format

Our instructors hold classes virtually, in a small-sized (10-16 students) videoconferencing classroom.

Homework and projects

Students should expect to spend about 60-90 minutes on homework every week. Homework will include practicing skills learned in class through short answer questions, long-term writing assignments connected to the unit project, and assigned reading in one of the four quarterly textbooks.

Drop and refund policies

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Schedule

Each course runs for 18 weeks and offers two timing formats. Both cover the same course material.

• One 105-minute lesson per week, or
• Two 55-minute lessons per week