Intermediate Grammar (recommended for 10th grade)
Pacing Guide for Intermediate Grammar
The following suggested calendar assumes a traditional 36-week school year. This calendar spaces out the grammar instruction throughout the year.
Semester 1: Focus on reviewing grammar concepts and working with phrases.
Week 1
First-day-of-school activity
Give grammar diagnostic test
Week 2
Do grammar review lesson (covers parts of speech and clauses)
Week 3
Teach relative clauses lesson
Assign relative clauses quick write for HW or as a bell ringer
Week 4
No grammar this week, but you can have students to bell ringers from the set of 50 bell ringers
Week 5
Teach prepositional phrases
Assign prepositional phrases quick write for HW or as a bell ringer
Week 6
Teach appositive phrases
Assign appositives or appositive phrases quick write for HW or as a bell ringer
Week 7
Teach gerund phrases
Assign gerund or gerund phrases quick write for HW or as a bell ringer
Week 8
Teach participial phrases
Assign participle or participial phrases quick write for HW or as a bell ringer
Week 9
Teach infinitive phrases
Assign infinitives or infinitive phrases quick write for HW or as a bell ringer
Week 10
Do phrases matching game one day this week
Have students do bell ringers from set of 50 bell ringers
Week 11
Do phrases review game
Give phrases quiz
Week 12
No grammar these weeks
Week 13
Do hands-on game with moveable sentence parts one day this week
Week 14
Assign style-minded revision lesson
Week 15
No grammar this week: remind students to be using grammar purposefully in the essays they are writing
Week 16
Do fill-in-the-blank activity/game for fun one day this week
Week 17-18
No grammar these weeks (allow students to prepare for midterms, etc.)
Week 19
Back to school after holidays: no grammar lessons this week
Review using 50 Bell Ringers at the beginning of class
Week 20
Teach colons lesson
Week 21
Assign colons quick write one day this week
Week 22
Teach semicolons lesson
Assign semicolons quick write one day this week
Week 23
Give semicolons and colons quiz one day this week
Week 24
Teach long dash lesson
Week 25
Teach quotation marks lesson
Week 26
No grammar this week
Week 27
Teach parallel structure: parts of speech
Week 28
Assign parallel structure parts of speech quick write one day this week
Week 29
Teach parallel structure clauses lesson
Assign parallel structure clauses quick write
Week 30
Teach parallel structure phrases lesson (mini lesson)
Assign parallel structure phrases quick write
Week 31
Give parallel structure quiz
Use 50 bell ringers as review and practice
Week 31
Optional: Do Bonus Comma Lesson
Week 32-33
Assign End-Of-The-Year Writing Reflection
Week 34-36
No new grammar lessons! Review for finals and give finals. Great job!
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