The High School English/Language Arts credit is complex. By request, we have compiled everything in one place. You have found your all-in-one-place curriculum right here with A Full Year of English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade).

As always each guide in the ELA bundle works from 7Sisters’ commitment to no-busywork and ways to level up to Honors for those who need it!

Credit Information:  This is a one-credit high school level ELA course, adaptable for basic, college prep, and honors levels.

Your PDF curriculum is ready for immediate download after purchase.

This full-year, adaptable, no busy-work English/Language Arts curriculum for your high school student provides:

• Reading with literary analysis,
• Watching movies and engaging in literary analysis,
• Writing instruction (for 4 types of papers),
• Vocabulary,
• Grammar,
• Public speaking
• A suggested schedule and
• Tools to help with grading!

The literature, cinema studies & writing guides included in this downloadable text will inform and inspire your homeschooling high schoolers without boring or burdening them with busywork.

Cinema Studies guides contain brief background information, important literature terms and themes, vocabulary and analysis questions, using the storytelling in MOVIES for a gentle introduction into literary analysis.

Similarly, Literature guides contain brief background information, important literature terms and themes, vocabulary and analysis questions - NEVER enough to kill your teens’ enjoyment of the book.

What's more, Writing guides contain concise daily lessons that teach four different types of writing skills important for high school students to master (creative writing/short story, essays, research papers, and poetry). The lessons contain brief information, instruction, and assignments. And by the way, rubrics for grading are included.

This American High School ELA curriculum bundle works in many educational settings! The movie guides, literature guides and the writing guides are good for self-instruction, as well as family or co-op classes.

Here's what each 7Sisters High School English/Language Arts one-year bundle includes:

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  • Study Guides for literary analysis of books (and movies!)
  • Research Paper Writing Guides
  • Essay Writing Guide
  • Poetry Writing Guide
  • Short-Story Writing Guide
  • Here's what each 7Sisters High School English/Language Arts one-year bundle includes:
    • Study Guides for literary analysis of books (and movies!)
    • Research Paper Writing Guides
    • Essay Writing Guide
    • Poetry Writing Guide
    • Short-Story Writing Guide
    • Public Speaking Experiences
    • Grammar Pocket Guide
    • Grammar Resources
    • Vocabulary Resources
    • Clear and friendly How-To-Use section for parents
    • Suggested schedule for a 9-month academic year
    • Rubrics and suggestions for grading
    • After downloading and saving your curriculum files to your device, begin exploring by opening the file called "INTRO and How-to-Use."
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    Which books will my student read and analyze with THIS one-year curriculum bundle?
    (You will need to buy copies of these books for your teen to read, or borrow a copy from the library. Consider making a purchase from Amazon. If so, we are Amazon associates, and will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you if you visit Amazon using our link in our sidebar to the right.)
    • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
    • A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
    • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
    • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (NOTE: There is no answer key for this guide. The questions are of a personally reflective nature with no clear "right answer." Any reasonable answer that displays thought is acceptable.)
    • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (viewed through a lens of American Transcendentalism) (NOTE: There is no answer key for this guide. The questions are of a personally reflective nature with no clear "right answer." Any reasonable answer that displays thought is acceptable.)
    • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    • The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
    • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

  • Click any of the above titles to view excerpts from the study guides in this bundle.

    Which Cinema Studies guides are a part of this year’s bundle?

    (You will need to buy or rent these movies; many are available on streaming services like Amazon Prime, Hulu, or Netflix, or borrow them from a friend or from the library.)

    1. 12 Angry Men (starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb)
    2. Apollo 13 (starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris)
    3. Mr. Holland’s Opus (starring Richard Dreyfuss)
    4. The Incredibles (starring Craig T. Nelson and Holly Hunter)

  • One important thing to mention:

    If you used the Cinema Studies for Literature Learning bundle in the past, your student will have completed ONE of the cinema studies guides that will be included in this one-year ELA bundle.

    So, if you used the Cinema Studies for Literature Learning bundle for 9th grade and choose the American Lit High School ELA bundle for 10th grade, your tenth grader will already have completed:

    12 Angry Men (starring Henry Fonda and Lee J. Cobb)

    WHAT OPTIONS DO YOU HAVE, IF THIS IS YOU??

    • Is it okay to do those movies a second time, to analyze them with another year of maturity? ABSOLUTELY!
    • Can you purchase a movie guide that was NOT a part of the bundle you used in 9th grade and use it instead? SURE! We have lots of other Cinema Studies guides that were not a part of the Cinema Studies for Literature Learning bundle. Choose a title that looks like it could fit well into your year.
    • Is it okay to choose to do only book-based lit. analysis, and leave out movies for the year? YOU BET!
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    Which writing guides are included?
  • An Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing
  • Intermediate Guide to High School Short Story Writing - Tall Tales
  • An Intermediate Guide to High School Poetry Writing
  • APA Style Research Paper: An Introductory Guide
  • MLA Style Research Paper Writing Guide
  • Composing Successful Cover Letters
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• You can download a free suggested syllabus for A Full Year of High  School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade) here!
   
  What else will I find in this American Lit High School ELA bundle?
  • Grammar Granules - Essential Elements of English
  • Recommended Resources for Supplemental Grammar and Vocabulary Learning
  • Humorous Monologue Public Speaking Experience
  • Spoken Word Poetry Public Speaking Experience
  • Parents Manual - Intro and How to Use This Bundle (including direction for grading and determining a final ELA grade for the transcript)
  • Chart for Determining the Level of Rigor for our year of High School ELA
  • Recommendations for HOW MANY BOOKS TOTAL your student should read this year

  • There are as many different ways to earn that big, complicated ELA credit as there are homeschool families, but this curriculum bundle will make it easy for you to:

    • cover everything you need to cover in a year
    • tweak the assignments if they don’t fit your needs perfectly
    • steer clear of busywork or overkill that might make your student come to hate ELA
    • grade your teen’s work with confidence
    • adjust the level of rigor to fit your child’s level of competence (average - honors)
    • stay on track and record your teen’s progress as the year unfolds
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    What people are saying:
    This is our first year using your curriculum, 9th grade LA, and we are loving it! Such a gentle approach, yet to the point and thorough. - M.
  • We have used it for our 9th grader this year. She has liked it and I love it! I like that it is mostly student-led. My daughter has gotten a well-rounded writing and literature class with very good progress in her skills. We have already bought the 10th grade curriculum. - S.
  • We started the 9th grade bundle this year and my daughter has asked to use the curriculum for next year too. It is very gentle in the instruction, not overwhelming. We like the mix of books & movies for the literature piece. I like week by week syllabus of what to do/complete. We use daily grams from easy grammar for the addlt grammar they recommend. The only minor dislike is the pace of going through some of the books, my daughter is dyslexic so it takes her longer to read assigned books than an average student, but we adjust the schedule as needed to accommodate that. - M.
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