LANGUAGE ARTS - Tri-City Christian Academy
Transcript of LANGUAGE ARTS - Tri-City Christian Academy
PRINCIPAL
LAUREN BRADY
VICE PRINCIPAL
JARID LAWSON
2211 W Germann Rd
Chandler, AZ 85286
480-245-7902
www.tcawarriors.org
LANGUAGE ARTS
ABeka
READING
Footprints - promote character-building qualities such as faithfulness, friendship, common sense,
and wisdom through this collection of 19 stories and 4 poems.
Swiss Family Robinson - journey with the Robinson family as they make their home on a deserted
island.
Pilgrim Boy - travel along with nine year-old Edward as he journeys from Holland across the
Atlantic to the New World.
Secret in the Maple Tree - change is a constant theme in life, and Hilda has to learn how to adjust.
Pilgrim’s Progress - introducing students to the classics with John Bunyan’s brilliant allegory
depicting the trials and triumphs that every Christian goes through.
SPELLING
Spelling and Poetry 3 gives students 34 spelling lists complete with vocabulary words with
definitions and implementation exercises. Eight poems are also included in this textbook to help
students appreciate the beauty of language and literary value of poetry.
GRAMMAR
Language 3 furthers students’ knowledge of capitalization and punctuation as he/she improves
sentence writing. Students are introduced to nouns, verbs, and adjectives while learning all 8
parts of speech.
WRITING
The Cursive Writing Skillbook emphasizes correct letter formation, spacing, proportion, and slant
through writing exercises such as writing Bible verses, practicing phonics, and completing creative
writing pieces.
MATH
Saxon
Students learn concepts such as whole number concepts and computations; arithmetic algorithms;
geometry and measurement; elapsed time; fractions; decimals and percents; powers and roots;
estimation; patterns and sequences; congruency and similarity; and statistics and probability.
SCIENCE
ABeka
Exploring God’s World explores creation with an emphasis on the human sense organs and how
they work. Students then explore the world of plants, and later, the world of animals.
HISTORY
BJU Press
Heritage Studies 3 is made up of understandable language the story of America from the framing of
the Constitution up until the days of the Wild West.
SPECIAL CLASSES: Art, Bible, Music, Spanish, Computer, Physical Ed
All students enjoy special scheduled time in our library.