Course Details

This eight-week course is the first of two courses focusing on “boosting basics” at middle school level. Basic Mechanics allows students to strengthen their foundation writing skills. The course teaches the fundamentals of writing such as: sentences vs. fragments, subjects and predicates, subject-verb agreement and capitalization. Students reinforce their writing skills they began to learn in Elementary School.

Course contents:

• Unit 1 – The Sentence, The Fragment, and The Run-on :- By the end of the first unit, students will be able to differentiate between complete, fragment and run on sentences and use this knowledge to write their own proper sentences.
• Unit 2 – Nouns, Nouns, and More Nouns! :- By the end of the second unit, students will be able to form the plural and possessive forms of nouns.
• Unit 3 – Subjects of a Sentence :- By the end of the third unit, students will be able to identify and use the simple and complete subjects of a sentence.
• Unit 4 – Predicates of a Sentence :- By the end of the fourth unit, students will be able to identify the simple and complete predicates of a sentence.
• Unit 5 – Subject – Verb Agreement in a Sentence :- By the end of the fifth unit, students will be able to make common subjects and verbs agree.
• Unit 6 – “Tricky” Subject – Verb Agreement :- By the end of the sixth unit, students will be able to make tricky subjects and verbs agree.
• Unit 7 – Capitalization :- By the end of the seventh unit, students will be able to correctly capitalize words both individually and within sentences.
• Unit 8 – Sum it ALL UP! :- By the end of the eighth unit, students will be able to proficiency in writing proper sentences, making subjects and verbs agree, and using correct capitalization rules. Students will also proofread their own writing to check for and correct any errors in these areas.