Building Securely: English 7 Pupil Text
The Building Securely: English 7 Pupil Text includes an advanced grammar course with 125 lessons divided into 11 chapters. You’ll find this comprehensive, God-honoring text easy-to-use as well as thorough. It teaches upper-level grammar constructs, mechanics, and writing. The lessons include both oral and written work. All of the parts of speech are covered, including prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. The course builds review into it in a sequential manner.
Chapters 1-2 focus on sentence parts and sentence construction. Object complements and subjective complements are introduced. Chapters 3-9 focus on the parts of speech. Verbals, progressive and emphatic forms of verbs, intransitive verbs, restrictive clauses, conjunctive adverbs are introduced.
Ample sentence diagramming practice is included. Chapter 10 teaches concepts of capitalization and punctuation including italics, single quotation marks, and ellipsis points. Chapter 11 deals with using numerous kinds of reference books, studying words, and studying word families.
Some of the new composition skills taught are guidelines for proofreading, story development, and note-taking. Paragraph construction, outlining, oral reports, descriptive writing, character sketches, book reviews, conflict and style, and poetic devices are taught at deeper levels.
Since this is an advanced text, English 7 is scheduled as part of high school language arts in World Geography and World History. It is divided over two years in those guides.
Note: The Teacher’s Manual is necessary at this level as an answer key and for additional help with the lessons.
Table of Contents
(Bold indicate Written Composition and Oral English lessons.)
Chapter 1 – Sentence Parts – Writing Character Sketches
- 1. The English Language
- 2. Sentences
- 3. Subjects and Predicates
- 4. Writing a Character Sketch
- 5. Direct and Indirect Objects
- 6. Predicate Nominatives and Predicate Adjectives
- 7. Nouns of Direct Address and Nouns Used as Appositives
- 8. Proofreading Your Writing
- 9. Chapter 1 Review
Chapter 2 – Sentence Construction – Writing Paragraphs
- 10. Types of Sentences
- 11. Word Order in Sentences
- 12. Clauses in Sentences
- 13. Topic Sentences and Paragraph Unity
- 14. Simple and Compound Sentences
- 15. Complex Sentences
- 16. Sentence Order and Paragraph Coherence
- 17. Sentence Transitions and Paragraph Coherence
- 18. Chapter 2 Review
Chapter 3 – Nouns – Developing Paragraphs
- 19. Identifying Nouns
- 20. Common and Proper Nouns
- 21. Developing Paragraphs by Adding Details or Giving Steps
- 22. Nouns With Regular Plural Forms
- 23. Nouns With Irregular Plural Forms,and Collective Nouns
- 24. Possessive Nouns
- 25. Developing Paragraphs by Using Examples or Telling an Incident
- 26. Verbals as Nouns
- 27. Verbal Phrases as Nouns
- 28. Identifying Noun Clauses
- 29. Diagraming Noun Clauses
- 30. Substantives
- 31. Developing Paragraphs by Giving Definitions
- 32. Chapter 3 Review
Chapter 4 – Verbs – Writing Outlines
- 33. Identifying Verbs
- 34. Principal Parts of Verbs
- 35. Simple Verb Tenses
- 36. Outlining
- 37. Perfect Tenses of Verbs
- 38. Using Perfect Verb Tenses
- 39. Progressive and Emphatic Verb Forms
- 40. Outlining Written Material
- 41. Transitive Verbs
- 42. Intransitive Complete Verbs
- 43. Intransitive Linking Verbs
- 44. Using an Outline to Write a Composition
- 45. Reviewing Basic Sentence Patterns
- 46. Taking Notes on a Sermon
- 47. Chapter 4 Review
Chapter 5 – Verb Usage – Writing Letters
- 48. Subject-Verb Agreement
- 49. Using Lay—Lie, Set—Sit, and Raise—Rise
- 50. Using Other Problem Verbs
- 51. Writing Friendly Letters
- 52. Writing Social Notes
- 53. Active and Passive Voice
- 54. Using the Active and Passive Voice
- 55. Writing Business Letters
- 56. Chapter 5 Review
Chapter 6 – Pronouns – Giving Oral Reports
- 57. Personal Pronouns
- 58. Pronoun Case
- 59. Taking Notes for an Oral Report
- 60. Using Personal Pronouns Correctly
- 61. Compound Personal Pronouns and Demonstrative Pronouns
- 62. Organizing Your Notes
- 63. Indefinite Pronouns
- 64. Interrogative and Relative Pronouns
- 65. Developing Your Report From an Outline
- 66. Giving an Oral Report
- 67. Chapter 6 Review
Chapter 7 – Adjectives – Writing Descriptions
- 68. Recognizing Adjectives
- 69. Using Figures of Speech
- 70. Positions of Adjectives
- 71. Forms of Comparison for Adjectives
- 72. Verbals as Adjectives
- 73. Descriptive Writing
- 74. Adjective Phrases
- 75. Adjective Clauses
- 76. Restrictive and Nonrestrictive Clauses, and Misplaced Clauses
- 77. Using Adjectives Correctly
- 78. Writing a Descriptive Composition
- 79. Chapter 7 Review
Chapter 8 – Adverbs – Giving Book Reports and Explanations
- 80. Recognizing Adverbs
- 81. Writing a Book Report
- 82. Forms of Comparison for Adverbs
- 83. Prepositional Phrases Used as Adverbs
- 84. Adverb Clauses
- 85. Giving an Oral Explanation
- 86. Distinguishing Between Adjectives and Adverbs
- 87. Using Adverbs Correctly
- 88. Chapter 8 Review
Chapter 9 – Prepositions, Conjunctions, and Interjections – Studying Poetry
- 89. Prepositions
- 90. Poetry
- 91. Using Prepositions Correctly
- 92. Coordinating Conjunctions
- 93. Conjunctive Adverbs
- 94. Rhythm in Poetry
- 95. Subordinating Conjunctions
- 96. Interjections
- 97. Review of the Parts of Speech
- 98. Rhyme and Repetition in Poetry
- 99. The Message of Poetry
- 100. Chapter 9 Review
Chapter 10 – Capitalization and Punctuation – Writing Stories
- 101. Capitalization
- 102. Story Writing: Portraying the Main Character
- 103. End Punctuation
- 104. Commas
- 105. Story Writing: Developing the Conflict
- 106. More Rules for Using Commas
- 107. Quotation Marks
- 108. More Quotation Marks
- 109. Story Writing: Using Good Style
- 110. Colons and Semicolons
- 111. Italics (Underlining)
- 112. Story Writing: The First Draft
- 113. Apostrophes and Hyphens
- 114. Story Writing: The Second Draft
- 115. Chapter 10 Review
Chapter 11 – Using Reference Books – Writing Effective Sentences
- 116. Using a Dictionary
- 117. Groups of Related Words
- 118. Writing Effective Sentences
- 119. Word Families
- 120. Encyclopedias and Atlases
- 121. Concordances, Topical Bibles, and Bible Dictionaries
- 122. Sentence Variety in Paragraphs
- 123. Chapter 11 Review
- 124. Final Review 1
- 125. Final Review 2
