2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade)

2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade) takes the complicated ELA credit and pulls all the pieces together for you into one place. With 7Sisters’ commitment to no busywork, this is all-in-one high school English curriculum your teens will like!

FEATURES :

• PDF curriculum, ready for immediate download after purchase.
• Credits: 1, adaptable for basic, college prep, and honors levels
• Full-Year Course
• Curriculum Bundle of PDF files
• Click here for Syllabus
• Great for Co-ops
• Rubrics for grading and suggested schedule included

ISBN 978-1-967468-02-7

7Sisters ELA Bundles may be used in any order, but titles suggest a recommended order.

FAQ’S

What does this High School English All-in-One ELA Bundle cover?

• reading with literary analysis,
• writing instruction for 4 types of papers,
• vocabulary,
• grammar review, and
• public speaking.

How do I get started with this bundle of PDF files?

After downloading and saving your curriculum files to your device, begin exploring by opening the file called “INTRO and How-to-Use.”

Which books will my student read and analyze with 2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade)?

1. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
2. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
4. 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.)
5. 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.)
6. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
8. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
9. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

(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.)

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

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)

(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.)

If your teen has already completed these Cinema Studies Literature Guides in the past, see information below about how to adapt this ELA bundle.

2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade)

ISBN 978-1-967468-02-7

Which writing guides are included in 2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade)?

1. An Intermediate Guide to High School Essay Writing
2. Intermediate Guide to High School Short Story Writing – Tall Tales
3. An Intermediate Guide to High School Poetry Writing
4. APA Style Research Paper: An Introductory Guide
5. MLA Style Research Paper Writing Guide
6. Composing Successful Cover Letters

What else will I find in this bundle?

1. Grammar Granules – Essential Elements of English
2. Recommended Resources for Supplemental Grammar and Vocabulary Learning
3. Humorous Monologue 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

Rely upon the 7Sisters commitment to no-busywork, no-overkill.

Literature Study Guides contain brief background information, important literature terms and themes, vocabulary and analysis questions.

Writing guides contain concise daily lessons that offer clear information, instruction, and assignments.

Both the literature guides and the writing guides are good for self-instruction, as well as family or co-op classes.

Let us help you out; here’s how to get started using American Literature Full-Year ELA Bundle.

Not sure if THIS particular High School English All-in-One ELA bundle is the right fit for your homeschool this year?

For an in-depth comparison of the different bundles for Literature and Writing available from 7Sisters, click here for Which ELA Curriculum Bundle is Right for YOU??, and download this FREE, informative PDF.

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For an in-depth look at why 7Sisters High School English ELA All-in-One Bundles are structured they way they are, click to read this article.

Here’s Vicki with thoughts on How to Use ELA One Year Bundles 7Sisters

How to Adapt this ELA Bundle if your student has already completed one or more of the Cinema Studies for Literature Learning Guides included in it:

• It is absolutely okay to do those movie guides a second time, analyzing them with another year of maturity.
• You can purchase a movie guide that was NOT a part of the bundle you used in an earlier  grade and use it instead. We have lots of other Cinema Studies guides that were not a part of the Cinema Studies for Literature Learning curriculum bundle. Choose a title that looks like it could fit well into your year.
• It is also okay to choose to do only book-based lit. analysis, and leave out movies for the year.

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

Customizing your 7Sisters ELA bundles is easy:

In a very general sense, when substituting titles to fit your homeschool — 1 book replaces 2 movies OR 2 movies replace 1 book.

Adapting the curriculum to college prep or honors level is explained in the Intro/How-to-Use file included for parents.

2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade)

EXCERPTS from this English/Language Arts Bundle:

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2a – A Full Year of High School English/Language Arts: American Literature and Composition (a good fit for 10th or 11th grade)

What people are saying:

Hi, I just want to thank you for this curriculum!  The start of our Writing and Literature has been so wonderful!  We are not overwhelmed!  We are loving it!  This is just what my high school boys needed!   There have been smiles when writing the stories about their family!  Thank you so much! -A.K.

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 addtl grammar they recommend. 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)

For more on the complex ELA credit: Why is Language Arts Such a HUGE credit?

Need course descriptions for your ELA course? Check out this post.

For a look at ALL the High School English ELA All-in-One Bundles available from 7Sisters, click here.