Life of Fred Language Arts Series: Dreams

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 fourth book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series covers . . . Brackets, parentheses, and braces Three ways to make a break in a sentence (commas, parentheses and dashes) How to type an em dash on a computer Which words ending in –nger are pronounced with a hard g Use of [sic] Where to put the question mark(s) in Did he ask, “What time is it” What to use instead of parentheses inside of parentheses Three uses of a dash When a question mark or an exclamation mark can touch a dash Metaphors The only time a period can touch a dash When acronyms lose their periods or their capitalization Analogy Emphatic form of a verb Compound subjects Compound verbs Simple, compound, and complex sentences Coordinating and correlative conjunctions When to express numbers as words or as numerals Conjunctive adverbs Figurative language (comparison, degree, and association) Two rules for making outlines Parallel construction Synecdoche The difference between metaphor and metonymy Allusions in writing The four times to use the passive voice How to pronounce viz. e.g. and i.e. Three keys to good writing Unnecessary prepositions How to write an essay Plagiarism Etymology Two times you can use sentence fragments Three uses of the slash mark (/) Why we capitalize the pronoun I Ellipsis Unlike all other language arts programs, this one also teaches about: • Why kids don’t go to jail • Twenty-six research doctorates and two professional degree doctorates • Ruminants and why horses are unlucky • What not to say to little children • Good spelling implies high IQ • Inverse, converse, and contrapositive • Logical equivalence The answers are included in the textbook. Complete this book and you have finished High School Language Arts. Life of Fred Dreams is a hardcover textbook containing 128 pages. This book is not consumable. All answers are written on separate paper or in a notebook. Click here to view sample lessons. (Opens in a new window) Life of Fred Dreams contains 19 lessons and is designed to take approximately one month to complete.