Hewitt Homeschooling Resources

This syllabus, written by Hewitt staff, is for those who wish to use the Best Series. Nonfiction and poems are studied the freshman year, short stories in Grade 10, chapters from novels in grade 11, and Shakespeare plays the senior year. Besides the syllabus you will need

Best Nonfiction: Advanced Level
Best Poems: Advanced Level
Vocabulary for Enjoyment: Book Three/Key (or) Vocabulary from Classical Roots: Book C/Key/Tests
Writers INC (or) Write for College
Literature Recommendations (from your library or purchased).

Quarters 1 and 2 teach writing through nonfiction literature. Style, organization, structure, author's purpose, biography and autobiography, viewpoint, and persuasive writing are covered. Quarters 3 and 4 cover poetry: rhyme and meter, form, poetic language, the speaker in poetry, and content. Throughout the year, the student will choose from a variety of writing projects, completing approximately six to eight assignments per quarter, in addition to one book report each quarter. Recommended (not required) literature for book reports at a regular reading level for Grade 9 are To Kill a Mockingbird, Call of the Wild, The Old Man and the Sea, and Kim; at the advanced level they are Huckleberry Finn, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and Grapes of Wrath. If your student is advanced, you may wish to use Vocabulary from Classical Roots and Write for College.

Hewitt's high-school syllabi are written with our enrolled students in mind. Students not enrolled in our program would not find the math, science, or health syllabi helpful; but other syllabi, such as our English ones, could prove helpful to parents/students working on their own. Syllabi do not include answer keys, and submitted work is not graded except for enrolled students.