Because he’s finished the fourth grade First Language Lessons I’m working to create a new curriculum for C’s language.

Weekly:
Mon – write out scripture in cursive, practice memorization
Tue – new spelling words in cursive (SWR)
Wed – report, one paragraph written on topic from previous week: art, music, literature, history, science, biography, or book he’s reading (does not have to be cursive) (IEW S&S)
Thur – listen to literature reading & narrate (TTC – storycharts)
Fri – spelling test in cursive (SWR), listen to history & narrate

Monthly:
One page report that he’s picked the topic, researched, written outline, rough draft, and final draft of at least 3 paragraphs/one page in length. (IEW S&S)

For narrations he has the option of doing them orally or writing them down, whichever he prefers. Next year he’ll be required to write down a paragraph about the literature and the history readings (but can still pick for his weekly report to be about the music, art, science, biography, or a book he’s reading.) I’ll also then be assigning him a topic to write about for his monthly paper and that may be research related or creative writing, and then he’ll do a second that’s his choice.