Grammar Concepts
C-1: Syntax
Parts of Speech
1+ Introduction to the Parts of Speech
1+ Introduction to the Court
3+ Review of the Court
The Court
Queens: Verbs
1+ Main Verbs
Lesser Verbs
3+ am, be
4+ to
two-word
3+ en
4+-ing
4+ Three Types of Verbs
3+ Nouns vs. Verbs
Pawns: Determiners
1+ Main Determiners
1+ Nouns + Apostrophe
3+ Her, Which, What, Whose, No + Nouns
Other Attachments
4+ SAM the Man + N
4+ Plural Pronouns + N
9+ More Determiners
Courtiers: Conjunctions
1+ Intro to Courtiers
1+ Conjunction Tests
4+ Lesser Conjunctions
4+ More Conjunctions
Middle Class
Prepositions
2+ Preposition Test
4+ Preposition Exceptions
4+ Review: Mary & Lamb
Pronouns
2+ Pronoun Test
4+ Pronouns vs. Determiners
4+ This, That, These, Those
4+ Unclear Pronouns
7+ Who vs. Whom
4+ Interjections
4+ Interrogatives
Commoners
5+ Intro to Commoners
Adjectives
5+ Adj + Wordiness
5+ More –ing words
Adverbs
3+ Adverb Tests
4+ Adverb Placement
7+ Review of the Parts of Speech
Trees
1+ Nouns & Verbs
2+ Nouns + apostrophe
2+ Trees and Pronouns
3+ Trees & Plural Pronouns
4+ Embedded Sentences
4+ Trees and Conjunctions
4+ Compound Sentences
5+ Compound + Embedded Sen
5+ Trees and Interjections
5+ Trees and Interrogatives
3+ Trees and Adverbs
C-2: Courtesy
1+ Spelling
3+ Accuracy
Capitalization
1+ Basics
5+ Minor Concepts
Courtesy and the Guest
1+ With I
4+ With Other Forms
Numbers
4+ Basics
5+ Money
6+ Time
C-3: Clarity
Wordiness
5+ The Basics
5+ Facts vs. Fat
5+ Wordy Phrases
5+ Wordiness Practice 1
7+ Essay Exams
7+ Wordiness Practice 2
Passive Voice
6+ The Basics
6+ Passive from No Act-or
Misplaced Prose
4+ The Basics
4+ Beginning with –ing
9+ Parallelism
C-4: Sentence Structure
C-5: Punctuation
1+ Introduction to Punctuation
1+ End Punctuation
3+ Commas
5+ Colons
5+ Semi-Colons
Apostrophes
3+ Basics
4+ The Has/Have Test
5+ Its/Whose
7+ Other Exceptions
7+ Italics vs. Quotation Marks
9+ Dashes vs. Parentheses
C-6: Agreement
Subject-Verb
3+ Overview
3+ Basic Agreement
3+ Singular vs. Plural Subjects
3+ Agreement Review 1
5+ Compound Subjects
5+ Two Magic Words
6+ Sam the Man Pronouns
7+ Various Other Agreements
7+ Agreement Review 2
7+ Subject-Pronoun Agreement
7+ Subject-Determiner Agreement
7+ Subject-Pronoun or Determiner Agreement
C-7: Tense
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Practice: Europe
History
Geography
Literature
Art
The grade levels refer to the minimum we feel appropriate in terms of content and/or vocabulary. Teachers and parents are advised to use their own discretion regarding appropriateness.
Ancient Greece
Alexander the Great
Peloponesian War
Pheidippides
Thermopylae
Ancient Rome
Caesar
Cicero
Mark Antony
Paul
Early Christianity
& Medieval Era
Crusades
King Canute
Reformation
Calvin and Zwingli
Luther
Reformation
Elizabethan England
Admiral Horatio Nelson
Duke of Wellington
Groom of the Stool
King Henry VIII pt 1
King Henry VIII pt 2
Mary Queen of Scots
Queen Anne Boleyn
Queen Boudica
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth II
Walter Raleigh
Age of Enlightenment
King Louis XVI pt 1
King Louis XVI pt 2
Madame Guillotine
Napoleon
Queen Infanta Maria Luisa
Queen Marie Antoinette
Queen Maria Luisa of Parma
World War I
Gallipoli
Verdun
World War II
Adolph Hitler
Auschwitz
Battle of Britain
D Day
Desert Fox
Dunkirk
Finland & the Winter War
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
Leningrad
Mussolini
Patton
Stalingrad
Winston Churchill
Post-WWII Wars
Cold War
Serbian War
Ukrainian War
Other European History
Queen Elizabeth II
Western Europe Geography
Mnemonic Posters
Countries
Benelux
England
France
Germany
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Scotland & Wales
Switzerland & Lichtenstein
Features
Alps
Channel Islands
Danube
Isle of Wight
Pyrenees
Rhine
Seine
Thames
Northern Europe Geography
Mnemonic Poster
Countries
Finland & the Winter War
Greenland & Iceland
Sweden & Norway
Features
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Sealand, Faroe Islands, & Svalbard
Southern Europe Geography
Mnemonic Posters
Countries
Italy
Monaco & San Marino
Portugal & Azores
Spain & Canary Islands
Vatican
Features
Cyprus & Rhodes
Iberia Peninsula
Mediterranean
Sicily, Corsica, & Sardinia
Balkan Peninsula Geography
Mnemonic Posters
Countries
Albania, Kosovo, & Northern Macedonia
Croatia & Bosnia
Greece
Moldova & Belaru
Serbia & the Serbian War
Features
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Carpathian Mountains
Mt. Olympus
Peloponnese
Transylvania
Eastern Europe Geography
Mnemonic Posters
Countries
Austria & Hungary
Belarus
Czech Republic & Slovakia
Latvia, Estonia, & Lithuania
Poland
Russia
Ukraine
Features
Dardanelles
Black Sea
Urals pt. 1
Urals pt. 2
Denmark
The Snow Queen
France
Beauty & the Beast
Rousseau
Voltaire
Germany
Kafka
Maleficent
Italy
Greece
Aesop
Aristotle
Cinderella
Homer
Plato & Socrates
England
Bilbo Baggins
Dracula
Edward De Vere
Frankenstein
Galadriel
Grendal
Guinivere
Hamlet
Harry Potter
Helen of Troy
James Bond
King Arthur
Mary Wollstonecraft
Peter Pan
Queen of Hearts
Romeo and Juliet
William Blake
Willy Wonka
England (cont.)
Peter Rabbit
Winnie the Pooh
Italian Art
7+ Artemisia Gentileschi
4+ Brunelleschi
AP+ Caravaggio
1+ Giotto
4+ Leonardo Da Vinci
7+ Michelangelo
Spanish Art
AP+ Dali
7+ Picasso
7+ Van Goya
Netherlands (Dutch) Art
AP+ Bosch
7+ Rembrandt
4+ Van Gogh
German Art
7+ Grunewald
1+ Klee