Learning Language Arts Through Literature: The Gray Book (Teacher's Edition)

8th Grade, 3rd Edition

This program uses a fully integrated approach as it takes students through grammar, vocabulary, analogies, word study, book studies, composition, narrative writing, persuasive writing, and research. Twenty-two of the lessons are dictation lessons, based upon literature passages. Approximately every eight weeks your student will have a two week literature lesson based upon a selected book. Finally, five lessons make up a special writing unit that covers five weeks, where students will develop writing skills by completing a narrative paper, a persuasive paper, a compare and contrast paper, and a research paper. Four assessments are included throughout the year to evaluate your student's progress.

The four books used in the literature lessons are:

• Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
• A Lantern in Her Hand by Bess Streeter Aldrich
• Eric Liddell by Catherine Swift
• God's Smuggler by Brother Andrew