Life of Fred Language Arts Series: Begin Teaching (High School)

Life of Fred Language Arts Series: Begin Teaching (High School)

Publisher: Polka Dot Publishing
Author: Stan Schmidt
$24.00
The second book in the Life of Fred Language Arts Series.  This series is language arts help for high school students.

  • Ellipsis
  • Litotes
  • Meter = 39 inches
  • Ninth way to make plurals
  • Since can be ambiguous
  • The whole point of English
  • Green’s Theorem in Space
  • Consonants as defined by air flow
  • Location of a comma changes the meaning
  • 14ºC = 57ºF
  • What the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common
  • Eleven ways to make plurals
  • 5 cm = 2 inches
  • Run-on sentences
  • Comma splices
  • Appositive phrase
  • Conjunctions, Lyrics, Iambic foot, Pentameter, Trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic feet
  • Scansion
  • Twelfth way to make plurals
  • Three ways to fix a comma splice
  • Eager vs. anxious
  • Not looking at the spelling of a word to decide whether to use a or an
  • Long vowels
  • Twenty-two words that don’t contain a, e, i, o, or u
  • Idioms
  • Affect and effect as verbs
  • Affect and effect as nouns
  • Nouns defined
  • Lie vs. lay
  • Transitive and intransitive verbs
  • The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act
  • Pronouns defined
  • What some people “know”
  • Making “happy as a clam” make sense
  • Scare quotes
  • Sixteen ways to make plurals
  • Cardinality of a set
  • Numbers—when to use words and when to use numerals
  • Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject
  • When to use du and when to use Sie in German
  • Literary symbolism
  • One hundred best first lines from novels
  • What it means to be a graduate student
  • Should the saying be, “The early worm gets eaten”?
  • Dictionary vs. thesaurus
  • Conjugation of a verb in three tenses
  • Existentialism defined
  • The three cases in which a preposition is capitalized in a book title
  • The two numbers in English (singular and plural—I and we) and the three numbers in Russian
  • Six tenses in English
  • Correction: 12 tenses in English.

Hardback, ISBN 978-1-937032-14-2, 128 pages

Click here to view sample pages.  

Book Title Life of Fred Language Arts Series: Begin Teaching (High School)
Publisher: Polka Dot Publishing
Author Stan Schmidt
The second book in the Life of Fred Language Arts Series.  This series is language arts help for high school students.

  • Ellipsis
  • Litotes
  • Meter = 39 inches
  • Ninth way to make plurals
  • Since can be ambiguous
  • The whole point of English
  • Green’s Theorem in Space
  • Consonants as defined by air flow
  • Location of a comma changes the meaning
  • 14ºC = 57ºF
  • What the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar have in common
  • Eleven ways to make plurals
  • 5 cm = 2 inches
  • Run-on sentences
  • Comma splices
  • Appositive phrase
  • Conjunctions, Lyrics, Iambic foot, Pentameter, Trochaic, anapestic, and dactylic feet
  • Scansion
  • Twelfth way to make plurals
  • Three ways to fix a comma splice
  • Eager vs. anxious
  • Not looking at the spelling of a word to decide whether to use a or an
  • Long vowels
  • Twenty-two words that don’t contain a, e, i, o, or u
  • Idioms
  • Affect and effect as verbs
  • Affect and effect as nouns
  • Nouns defined
  • Lie vs. lay
  • Transitive and intransitive verbs
  • The Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Act
  • Pronouns defined
  • What some people “know”
  • Making “happy as a clam” make sense
  • Scare quotes
  • Sixteen ways to make plurals
  • Cardinality of a set
  • Numbers—when to use words and when to use numerals
  • Subject-verb agreement when there is a compound subject
  • When to use du and when to use Sie in German
  • Literary symbolism
  • One hundred best first lines from novels
  • What it means to be a graduate student
  • Should the saying be, “The early worm gets eaten”?
  • Dictionary vs. thesaurus
  • Conjugation of a verb in three tenses
  • Existentialism defined
  • The three cases in which a preposition is capitalized in a book title
  • The two numbers in English (singular and plural—I and we) and the three numbers in Russian
  • Six tenses in English
  • Correction: 12 tenses in English.

Hardback, ISBN 978-1-937032-14-2, 128 pages

Click here to view sample pages.