ELI Beginning Grammar & Writing Spring 2025

 Location: Library Rooms 203, 205, 206

Meeting Days: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday

Meeting Times: 9:00-11:00am

Text: Fast Fundamental English Grammar by Shannon Newell

Course Description: This course is designed to improve advanced students' reading skills using interactive technology, current evens periodicals, advertisements, blogs, websites, and additional texts. The goal is to improve comprehension skills and vocabulary. The reading focus is on identifying main idea, supporting details, comparing and contrasting, cause and effect, making inferences, and summarizing text.


Category                                    Weight

Classwork Grammar Lessons                   30%

Essay Assessments 30%

Participation 40%

                                     

Participation Grade is calculated by beginning with 100 points.  Five points are deducted for each absence, therefore you can be absent 2 times and still receive an "A" for participation.  Two points are deducted for being more than 1 minute late or being out of the class more than 10 minutes.  (Exceptions are made for special cases approved by Professor Seal.)


Late Work Policy:  

https://www.savannahstate.edu/academic-affairs/academic-information/academic-policies.shtml

A student assignment is considered late if it is turned in after 11:55 on the Sunday that ends that week. Three points are deducted for every day that an assignment is late.



Course Outline:

Novice Grammar & Writing


Instructional focus 

Assignments

Week 1: 

3/10-3/14

Course Overview

What do you already know?

Basic Sentence Order

Essay format- MLA, Google doc

Knowledge Check 1, Check 2

Check 3

Lesson 1

Writing Practice

Pre-Assessment

3/17-3/21

No school Spring Break


Week 2:

3/24-3/28

Subject Pronouns/ Present Tense

Contractions

Negative “be” Present 

Negative Contractions

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Essay Assignment A

Week 3:

3/31-4/4

Singular and Plural Nouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

Articles “A” vs “An”

Simple Present

Lesson 6

Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Lesson 9

Week 4:

4/7-4/11

Present Continuous

Present Continuous Negative

Past Tense “be”

Lesson 10

Essay Assignment B

Lesson 11

Lesson 12

Week 5:

4/14-4/18

Negative “be” Past tense

Past Continuous

Past Continuous Negative

Lesson 13

Lesson 14

Lesson 15

Essay Assignment C

Week 6:

4/21-4/25

Object Pronouns

Simple Present Negative

Possessive Pronouns

Possessive Adjective Pronouns

Lesson 16

Subject/Verb Agreement Check

Lesson 17

Lesson 18

Lesson 19

Week 7:

4/28-5/1

Pronoun Organization

Simple Past



Pronoun Project

Lesson 20

Essay Assignment D

Week 8:

5/5-5/8

Review & Exams

Kahoot Review

Present Pronoun Projects MONDAY
Exam on WEDNESDAY


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