Life of Fred Language Arts: Begin Teaching

Need something creative, fun and exciting for high school students when teaching English? This is it! Life of Fred is known for its artsy, out-of-the-box thinking! Four books make up the series. Do one each year of high school or go as fast as you want. Each book is an entertaining story disguising a lot of Language Arts knowledge! Amazing and engaging!  The second book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series, Begin Teaching covers: Ellipsis Litotes Ninth way to make plurals Since can be ambiguous The whole point of English Consonants as defined by air flow Location of a comma changes the meaning Eleven ways to make plurals Run-on sentences Comma splices Appositive phrase Conjunctions Lyrics Iambic foot Pentameter Trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic feet Scansion Twelfth way to make plurals Three ways to fix a comma splice Eager vs. anxious Not looking at the spelling of a word to decide whether to use a or an Long vowels Twenty-two words that don’t contain a, e, i, o, or u Idioms Affect and effect as verbs Affect and effect as nouns Nouns defined Lie vs. lay Transitive and intransitive verbs Pronouns defined Scare quotes Sixteen ways to make plurals Numbers—when to use words and when to use numerals Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject Literary symbolism One hundred best first lines from novels Dictionary vs. thesaurus Conjugation of a verb in three tenses The three cases in which a preposition is capitalized in a book title The two numbers in English (singular and plural—I and we) and the three numbers in Russian Six tenses in English Correction: 12 tenses in English Unlike all other language arts programs, this one also teaches about: Meter = 39 inches Green’s Theorem in Space14ºC = 57ºF What the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common 5 cm = 2 inchesThe Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity ActWhat some people “know”Making “happy as a clam” make sense Cardinality of a setWhen to use du and when to use Sie in GermanWhat it means to be a graduate studentShould the saying be, “The early worm gets eaten”?Existentialism defined The answers are included in the textbook. Complete this book and you are ready for Life of Fred Language Arts Series: Classes. Begin Teaching is a hardcover textbook containing 128 pages. This book is not consumable. All answers are written on separate paper or in a notebook. Life of Fred Begin Teaching contains 19 lessons and is designed to take approximately one month to complete.