Distance Learning Courses | Grades 9–12

English 10: Writing & Grammar 10 / Elements of Literature

Course Description — Writing & Grammar 10 (first semseter)

This course continues to develop the student’s grammar skills, emphasizing parts of speech, sentence patterns, phrases, clauses, and correct usage of verbs, pronouns, and modifiers. It includes a review of capitalization and punctuation. Students create portfolios that include fourteen writing assignments, including a personal letter, response to literature, cause-and-effect essay, poetry and metaphor, eyewitness report, oral anecdote, webpage design, short story, research essay, coordination and subordination, persuasive speech, and journal writing.

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five 30-minute lessons per week for one semester; 78 lessons total

Course Description—Elements of Literature (second semester)

In this course, students learn the elements of literature—imaginative comparisons, devices of sound, allusion, symbol, and irony—by studying primarily American and British authors. Students study five genres: biography, fiction, lyric poetry, drama, and the personal essay.

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five 30-minute lessons per week for one semester; 83 lessons total

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Other Tenth Grade Classes

Bible 10 | World History | Geometry | Biology

Student Texts

cover image of Writing and Grammar Student text Teach the eight parts of speech, verbal phrases, clauses (including noun clauses), usage, and mechanics. Review the five basic sentence patterns: S-be-Advl and S-Trv-DO-OC. Reference chapters include library skills such as test-taking strategies. Lead students through the writing process and teach writing strategies such as sentence expansion and reduction, coordination and subordination, and parallelism. Writing projects include persuasive speech, editorial, eyewitness report, research essay, cause-and-effect essay, short story, poetry and metaphor, and webpage design.
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cover image of Elements of Literature Student text Strengthen your students’ understanding of literature by focusing on advanced literary concepts. Analyze literary selections from several genres and interpret them in light of biblical principles. The Shakespearean drama Romeo and Juliet is included.
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Meet the Instructor

Dr. Lesa Seibert, BS, MEd, EdS, EdD

Dr. Lesa Seibert, a course instructor for BJU Press Distance LearningDr. Seibert has over 15 years teaching experience in Christian education. She has grown up desiring to be a teacher, and she desires to instill in her students a love for learning. Her main goal in teaching grammar is to show how English follows a logical pattern. God’s Word states that "knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth" (Proverbs 14:6). Gaining knowledge is hard when a student does not understand what he is trying to learn. Therefore, understanding is the key to gaining knowledge. In teaching literature, Dr. Seibert desires to show the beauty of the English language in written form. The literary concepts of metaphors, allusions, symbols, etc., increase not only the enjoyment of a written work but also the impact of the message.