General
- Here’s a great site to bookmark for all your graphic organizing needs and questions. What is a Graphic Organizer?
- If you would like to make personalized graphic organizers, click here.
- This site can be for reviewing parts of speech. Activities include matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Click here for another grammar game.
- Make online crossword puzzles here or here. These are great for reviewing vocabulary!
- Daily Grammar Excellent site!
- At the right is a picture one of our users sent in of the sentence pocket suggested in Marcia’s introductory notes. Click on the picture to see all the details up very close!
- Online Writing Lab
- Transition words for writing.
- Great speech outline: .pdf file
SAT Preparation:
- The SAT online question of the day
- Go to this site to answer almost any question you may have about taking the SAT, PSAT, and more.
- Great test preparation site. Looks great!
- SAT Vocabulary Words
- 5000 Collegiate Words with Brief Definitions
- SAT Flash Cards
Writing College Admissions Essays
Evaluations and Rubrics:
- A great link for evaluating writing in grades 2-5. An interactive rubric for the student to use as a checklist.
- Click here to evaluate writing for grades 6-8. Another great interactive student checklist!
- I recommend you show a student his grading rubric (or better yet, have him help you develop one!) before he starts his project or writing assignment. Click here to develop rubrics automatically from this site for most types of evaluations!
Unit 1 – The Books of Moses
Week 1: Curtain Rises on Egypt: Gift of the Nile
- Level 1: Click here or here for some neat online activities as you are teaching nouns. Use next week too!
- Level 2: Nouns
- Levels 3-7: For reviewing the steps in the writing process, click here.
- Levels 8-11: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process.
Week 2: Pharaohs & Pyramids
- Level 1: Coloring pages: Moses, Pharaoh, the pyramids and more
- Level 2: Pronouns
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible
- Levels 4-11: Sense chart (pdf file), Describing wheel (pdf file), Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: Parts of Speech songs by Schoolhouse Rock.
- Levels 7-8: Cluster diagram for more middle level students (pdf file)
- Levels 9-11: More advanced Cluster diagram for oldest student, T-chart (pdf)
- Level 12: More advanced explanation of steps in the writing process
Week 3: Egyptian Polytheism & the Judgment of God
- Level 1: Coloring page of Israel being delivered from Egypt.
- Level 2: Worksheet reviewing simple tenses.
- Level 2: Grammar Worksheets
- Level 3: Review the parts of speech with this online game.
- Level 3: Parts of Speech song and Schoolhouse Rock songs!
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
- Levels 9-11: Common Proofreading Symbols
Week 4: Creation Through Noah
- Level 1: Coloring pages: Adam and Eve and Noah’s Ark.
- Level 2: Grammar Worksheets
- Level 3: This site can be used as you are teaching or reviewing the parts of speech. You’ll enjoy matching, concentration, flash cards, and a word search.
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
- Levels 4-12: If you are beginning to learn or review prepositions this week in grammar, click here for a crossword puzzle that will reinforce this knowledge.
- Levels 4-12: Another review: A preposition word search.
Week 5: Abraham & Ancient Mesopotamian Civilizations
- Level 1: Ancient Egypt coloring pages.
- Levels 3-5: Venn diagram, Cluster diagram (pdf file), describing wheel (pdf file), 5 W’s Chart (pdf file)
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
- Levels 3-6: Steps in the writing process
- Levels 6-9: Types of paragraphs: expository, descriptive, narrative, and persuasive.
- Levels 10-11: Formal Outlines
- Level 12: Classical Comparison Paper
Week 6: The Patriarchs: From Canaan to Egypt
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3-6: dictation sentences from the Bible.
- Levels 10-11: Analytical Essay
Week 7: In The Wilderness: The Tabernacle & the Law
- Level 1: Click here for instructions on making a game for learning prepositions. Looks like fun!
- Level 2: Grammar Worksheets
- Level 3: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
- Levels 4-5: 5 W’s Chart (pdf file), Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 6-7: Cluster Diagram for more middle level students (pdf file)
- Level 8: Transition words
- Level 9: More advanced cluster diagram for oldest students.
- Level 11: Go to these sites for helps and practice college application essays:
- Princeton Review has loads of helpful information, and we found this very interesting page there.
- Interested in Business schools? Princeton Review has this article on writing essays for admission to them.
- AdmissionsEssays.com. Click on “college”, then scroll down and click on “FREE step by step analysis, structure, and writing guide!” Or, here is the direct link.
- College Application Essays: written from a secular perspective, but with some helpful hints.
- Sample College Essays
Week 8: In The Wilderness: Holiness – Worshipping God as God
- Level 2: For further help with learning the steps of the writing process, click here.
- Level 3: Describing wheel (pdf file)
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
Week 9: In The Wilderness: Slaves to Warriors
- Level 3: Very simple story map (pdf file).
- Levels 3-6: Sample dictation sentences from the Bible.
Unit 2 – All Governments Are Established by God
Week 10: The Indus Valley, Hinduism, & Buddhism
- Level 2: Sense chart (pdf file), Describing wheel (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Level 6: Story Map
Week 11: Ancient China: Confucius & Taoism
- Level 1: Need extra worksheets for working on capitalization? Click here.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
Week 12: Ancient Americas
- Level 2: Very simple story map (pdf file)
- Level 3: Venn diagram
- Levels 4-5: Use an online dictionary/thesaurus.
- Levels 4-5: Online thesaurus
- Levels 4-5: Using a Thesaurus
Week 13: Early Greek Cultures of the Bronze Age
- Levels 1-8: Scholastic site for writing and publishing your own poetry.
- Levels 3, 6, 8: For more helps in teaching your poetry unit, click here.
- Levels 3, 6, 8, 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here.
- Levels 4-5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
Week 14: Early Greek Cultures of the Archaic Period
- Level 1: Greek Myth coloring pages. Click on the right side of the screen.
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6: You won’t want to miss this site for teaching your poetry unit. Excellent!
- Levels 3, 6, 8, 10: For further helps on teaching your poetry unit, click here and here.
Week 15: The Promised Land: Conquest & Settlement
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 3, 6, 8: A poetry page on haiku with links to other websites.
Week 16: Israel’s Judges and Neighbors
- Level 2: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 3: Learn to write a cinquain.
- Level 6, 8, 10: Learn to write a limerick.
- Level 7: Describing wheel (pdf file) or sense chart (pdf file)
- Level 11: Story map
- Level 12: Instructions for building your own website.
Week 17: The Rise of Saul & the Philistines
- No links.
Week 18: King David and the Phoenicians
- Levels 3, 6, 8, 10: Use this site for your lesson on Hebrew poetry.
- Levels 4-5: Here is a cover that you can use for your state notebook. (pdf file)
- Levels 4-5: Click here for a ready-to-use Table of Contents for your notebook. (pdf file)
- Level 9: Grading rubric for writing a research paper.
- Level 12: Review this site for an extensive list of business communiques.
Unit 3 – Preparing the World for its Savior
Week 19: Solomon’s Divided Heart
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Level 3: Describing wheel (pdf file), Story Map, Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: Story map
- Level 9: Finding and Gathering the News
Week 20: The Divided Kingdom
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Level 3: Describing wheel (pdf file), Story Map, Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: Story map
- Level 6: Guidelines for a business letter
- Level 8: Literary terms
Week 21: The Assyrian Scourge: The Northern Kingdom Is Deported
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Level 3: Describing wheel (pdf file), Story Map, Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: Story map
- Level 6: Internet Safety, Kid Rules for Online Safety, and Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources
- Level 10: Venn Diagram (pdf file) to use for prewriting
- Level 11: Good site, with an example definition essay.
Week 22: The Chaldeans (New Babylonians) and the Babylonian Captivity
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 1: Coloring page: Daniel
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Levels 3, 6: Story Map
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website
- Level 5: Story map
- Level 10: Venn Diagram (pdf file) to use for prewriting
Week 23: The Medes and Persians: The Israelites Return Home
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 5: Story map
- Level 10: Venn Diagram (pdf file) to use for prewriting
Week 24: Persians and Greeks: The Persian Wars
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 5: Fifth grade book report instructions and outline form
- Level 8: Venn Diagram (pdf file) to use for prewriting
- Levels 10-12: If you are interested in a formal debate and communications association, read more at National Christian Forensics and Communications Association.
Week 25: The Golden Age of Greece and the Peloponnesian Wars
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Levels 3, 6, 9: Learn how to write plays from the Scholastic website.
- Level 5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 8: Venn Diagram (pdf file) to use for prewriting
- Levels 10-12: Detailed site explaining how to debate.
- Levels 10-12: Learn about debates from the HSLDA website.
- Levels 10-12: If you are interested in a formal debate and communications association, read more at National Christian Forensics and Communications Association.
Week 26: Greek Achievements: Science, Mathematics, and Philosophy
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 1: Coloring page of Greek pottery
- Levels 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Level 5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 6, 8, 9: Venn diagram
- Levels 10-12: Detailed site explaining how to debate.
- Levels 10-12: Learn about debates from the HSLDA website.
- Levels 10-12: If you are interested in a formal debate and communications association, read more at National Christian Forensics and Communications Association.
Week 27: Alexander the Great: Preparation for Proclamation
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2, 4, 7: Newspaper writing
- Level 5: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Levels 6, 8, 9: Venn diagram
- Levels 10-12: Detailed site explaining how to debate.
- Levels 10-12: Learn about debates from the HSLDA website.
- Levels 10-12: If you are interested in a formal debate and communications association, read more at National Christian Forensics and Communications Association.
- How to write business letters.
Unit 4 – In the Fullness of Time
Week 28: The Etruscans and the Founding of Rome
- Levels 1, 4: 12 Essential Paragrah and Essay Writing Skills Exercises and Worksheets (including cluster diagrams) (pdf file)
- Levels 2, 4: Teaching story maps (pdf file)
- Level 5: Biography Worksheet (pdf file)
- Level 5: A user recommends Note Taking By Crayon for this week’s biography paper.
- Levels 8, 9: A checklist for taking essay tests.
Week 29: The Roman Republic: Everyday Life
- Level 1: Very simple instructions for writing friendly letters.
- Levels 3, 5: 12 Essential Paragraph and Essay Writing Skill Exercises and Worksheets (including cluster diagrams) (pdf file)
- Level 3: Basic information about expository writing.
- Levels 8, 9: A checklist for taking essay tests.
Week 30: The Roman Republic Expands: The Punic Wars
- Level 1: 12 Essential Paragraph and Essay Writing Skill Exercises and Worksheets (including cluster diagrams) (pdf file)
- Level 2: Teaching story maps(pdf file)
- Level 3: Basic information about descriptive writing.
- Level 5: Biography Worksheet (pdf file)
- Level 7: Write a book report.
- Level 10: Write a biography.
Week 31: From Republic to Empire
- Level 1: 12 Essential Paragraph and Essay Writing Skill Exercises and Worksheets (including cluster diagrams)(pdf file)
- Level 2: Teaching story maps.
- Level 3: Checklists for Narrative, Opinion, Informative, Descriptive, and Persuasive writing (pdf file)
- Level 7: Essay Writing: Writer’s Checklist (pdf file)
- Level 8: A Character Sketch and Advanced Story Map: scroll down to the attached worksheet
- Level 10: Write a biography.
Week 32: Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Atonement
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: A very simple story map. (pdf file)
- Level 6: How to write a research paper.
- Level 8: A nice character sketch form.
- Level 9: Write a speech.
- Level 10: Write a biography.
Week 33: The Zenith of Imperial Rome: Backdrop to the Early Church
- Level 1: Cluster diagram (pdf file)
- Level 2: Great information on how to write a book report.
- Levels 4, 5, 7, 9: Write a speech.
- Level 6: How to write a research paper.
- Level 8: A nice character sketch form.
Week 34: Rome Decays: Saints and Martyrs of the Early Church
- Levels 4, 5, 7, 9: Write a speech.
- Level 6: How to write a research paper.
- Level 8: A nice character sketch form.
- Level 10: Business Letters, Memos, Resumes
Week 35: Christianity Conquers Rome: Of Church Hierarchies
- Levels 4, 5, 7, 9: Write a speech.
- Level 6: How to write a research paper.
- Level 8: A nice character sketch form.
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.
Week 36: Western Rome Falls: Theology and Church Councils
- Levels 4, 5, 7, 9: Write a speech.
- Level 6: How to write a research paper.
- Level 8: A nice character sketch form.
- Level 10: Instructions for building your own website.