Essentials is a bridge between the grammar and dialectic arts that prepares students for the middle and high-school Challenge programs.
Built around the support and accountability that can only come from a local community, this power-packed, Christian-based homeschool program guides parents of children ages nine to twelve through the foundational principles of language structure and analysis, the structure and style of writing, and arithmetic speed and accuracy.
What students will learn:
. How to properly capitalize and punctuate words and sentences
. What the eight parts of speech are and how to use them properly
. How to recognize and create 112 sentence patterns
. How to diagram sentences
. How to analyze sentences by purpose, structure, patterns, and speech parts
. How to write with structure and style through Institute for Excellence in Writing
. How to write an outline, narrative, expository, and essay
. Math drills, increasing speed in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, roots, and exponents, in preparation for higher math