Great Christian Writers Literature and Composition is an all-in-one resource for a year of high school ELA learning with a focus on your teen's spiritual formation. 

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. Our recommendation is that this course be recorded on the transcript as an Average (Level 2) course. Adapting this bundle for use at a College Prep (Level 3) or Honors (Level 4) level will require significant supplementation by the teacher.

Your PDF curriculum is ready for immediate download after purchase. 

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 and 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.

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."

FAQ:

Why choose THIS bundle as opposed to other curriculum at 7Sisters?

While each guide included in this ELA bundle may be purchased individually from 7Sisters, this bundle provides everything you need for ONE YEAR of high school English — all 5 elements of this complex credit — in one place, with a suggested schedule for you to follow, and with detailed information on ways to grade your student’s work and determine an overall grade for the year to record with confidence on the high school transcript.

And how about SERIOUS SAVINGS? 

The regular price for A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: Great Christian Writers Literature and Composition (a good fit for 9th or 10th grade) saves approximately 30% off the price if you purchased as 4 bundled products (one for lit., one for cinema studies, one for writing, and one for public speaking); it’s an even greater savings off the total price if you purchased each guide individually!

If you'd like an in-depth comparison of the different bundles for Literature and Writing available from your homeschooling big sisters here at 7SistersHomeschool.com, click here for Which ELA Curriculum Bundle is Right for YOU??, and download this FREE, informative PDF.

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. You might want to 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.)

Great Christian Writers Literature and Composition book titles covered by these study guides include:

• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom
• Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (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.)
• The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence
• God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew
• Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge
• Joni by Joni Eareckson Tada
• Born Again by Charles Colson
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• Hymns and Creeds

Which Cinema Studies for Literature Learning guides are a part of this Great Christian Writers High School ELA 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. A Christmas Carol (starring George C. Scott)
2. Lilies of the Field (starring Sidney Poitier)

3. Chariots of Fire (starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, & Nicholas Farrell)

4. Inn of the Sixth Happiness (starring Ingrid Bergman)

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 Great Christian Writers ELA bundle for 10th grade, your tenth grader will already have completed:

A Christmas Carol (starring George C. Scott)

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!

As always, we want you to make our curriculum fit your homeschooling needs. We just wanted to be sure you knew about this potential duplication before you made a decision about this bundle.

Which writing guides are included?

1. An Introductory Guide to High School Essay Writing
2. Introductory Guide to High School Short Story Writing - Family Narrative
3. An Introductory Guide to High School Poetry Writing
4. Research Writing Readiness
5. APA Style Research Paper: An Introductory Guide
6. Writing Your Personal Mission Statement

You can download a FREE suggested syllabus here for A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: Great Christian Writers Literature and Composition (a good fit for 9th or 10th grade).

What else will I find in this Great Christian Writers High School ELA bundle?

1. Grammar Granules - Essential Elements of English
2. Recommended Resources for Supplemental Grammar and Vocabulary Learning
3. Kid Lit Public Speaking Experience
4. Spoken Word Poetry Public Speaking Experience
5. Parents Manual - Intro and How to Use This Bundle (including direction for grading and determining a final ELA grade for the transcript)
6. Chart for Determining the Level of Rigor for our year of High School ELA
7. 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 
• stay on track and record your teen’s progress as the year unfolds

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.

There are six bundles total in this series of theme-based High School ELA titles from 7Sisters

1. 1 - A Full Year of High School ELA:  Great Christian Writers (recommended for 9th or 10th grade)
2. 1 - A Full Year of High School ELA:  Cinema Studies for Literature Learning and Composition (recommended for 9th or 10th grade)
3. 2 - A Full Year of High School ELA:  American Literature (recommended for 10th or 11th grade)
4. 3 - A Full Year of High School ELA:  British Literature (recommended for 11th or 12th grade)
5. 3 - A Full Year of High School ELA:  C.S. Lewis (recommended for 11th or 12th grade) (Coming late 2024)
6. 4 - A Full Year of High School ELA:  World & Ancient Literature (recommended for 11th or 12th grade)

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You can download a FREE suggested syllabus here for A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: Great Christian Writers Literature and Composition (a good fit for 9th or 10th grade).