Language Arts for older students

This is my first year hs and thankfully we were lucky enough to be able to borrow curriculum from a family at church. We are doing 20th Century World History from Sonlight with my 12 and 16 year olds.

The kids like the history and the literature with it, but I dont feel like its really delving into LA like I would like. I would like to find something that encourages non history related creative writing and a good base of grammar.

Any suggestions on good ones for that age? (7th and 11th)

 

I recommend the John Warriner English Grammar and Composition books.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I just read a bunch of rave reviews on it, so I might have to look in to it.

 

BJu or Abeka both have great higher level grammer and literature books.

 

uh grammar as well hahah!
They even have spelling! ( Maybe I should get myself one haha)

 

I am struggling with the writing aspect as well.

However, I have found a good grammer site online.
englishgrammar101.com
you don't have to sign in, just go on the left hand side to homeschooling.
it has pretests for the units, so if they do well on that, you can move on to something more difficult.
it is online, scored automatically. I have ds write down his 'grade' and I asked him to shoot for 75%.
(he tends to redo them until he gets a 100%)
only a slight amount of whining, and it is pretty basic, but parts of a sentence is pretty basic. The reading level (for us) is challenging, so sometimes I have to explain stuff.
I think it looks like boring worksheets, but he is much more willing to do it than worksheets and there you have it.

 

Hey, I need that spelling unit also.
how do I spell grammar grammer, then in the web address write grammar. sigh.

 

I checked in the web site, it looks nice but it has just words about it, not work questions or did I miss something?

 

Teachermom,

I just checked it out and I think that you click homeschool on the left side. I did that and it let me go through a lesson.

 

Yes, click on homeschool on the left side (in blue) then you can look at the Units...if you click on one then you get the lessons.
They are not printable, but the kids can do them and it will check them online.
I assume to have your results saved you have to sign up.
We just write down the topic and avg the score of the lessons he does on our lesson plan.
He likes to redo them until it is perfect...and trust me, in nothing else is he willing to do that.

 

I just have them print them after they click score. that way it will show off to the left if they missed any. If there are no x's, then they know they got them all right.

Thanks for posting that site!