Caveat Academic ServicesSelf-paced courses · Grades 6 to 8
High School Ready courses
Complete courses that preview the 9th grade classes, so the first semester of high school feels familiar. Lessons with worked examples, practice with instant feedback, unit quizzes, a final exam and a certificate. Students work on their own, at their own pace.
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Self-paced course · Grades 7 to 8 · Prepares for English 9
High School Ready: English 9
Six units that build the reading, analysis, and writing skills 9th grade English expects: close reading, fiction, poetry, argument, essay writing, and grammar. Most students finish in six to eight weeks at a few short sessions a week.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Reading Closely: Finding the main idea and key details; Making inferences; Citing evidence from a text
- Fiction: How Stories Work: Plot and conflict; Character and point of view; Theme
- Poetry and Figurative Language: Imagery, simile, and metaphor; Personification, hyperbole, and tone; Sound devices and the structure of a poem
- Nonfiction and Argument: Author's purpose and text structure; Claims, evidence, and reasoning; Spotting weak arguments
- Writing Paragraphs and Essays: Writing a strong thesis statement; The claim, evidence, explanation paragraph; Introductions, conclusions, transitions, and revising
- Grammar and Style for High School: Complete sentences, fragments, and run-ons; Commas, agreement, and pronouns; Active voice, formal style, and MLA basics
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Self-paced course · Grades 7 to 8 · Prepares for Algebra 1
High School Ready: Algebra 1
A preview of Algebra 1 built on pre-algebra foundations: integers and fractions, expressions, equations, inequalities, linear functions, systems, exponents and polynomials. Six units of short lessons with worked examples, practice and quizzes, about 25 to 35 hours in all.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Number foundations: Integers and their operations; Exponents, square roots and order of operations; Fractions and decimals
- Expressions: Variables and evaluating expressions; The distributive property; Combining like terms
- Equations: One-step and two-step equations; Multi-step equations and variables on both sides; Literal equations and formulas
- Inequalities and absolute value: Writing and graphing inequalities; Solving inequalities; Absolute value basics
- Linear functions: The coordinate plane and functions; Slope; Slope-intercept form and writing equations
- Systems, exponents and polynomials: Systems of equations; Exponent rules; Adding and multiplying polynomials
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Self-paced course · Grades 6 to 8 · Prepares for high school Earth Science
High School Ready: Earth Science
Six units take you from thinking like a scientist through plate tectonics, rocks, weather, Earth's history and Earth's place in space, with worked examples, practice questions and a quiz in every unit. Most students finish in about 6 to 9 weeks at two or three short sessions a week.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Thinking like a scientist: Observations, inferences and hypotheses; Variables, data tables and graphs; Metric units and scientific notation
- Earth's structure and plate tectonics: The layers of the Earth; Plate tectonics and plate boundaries; Earthquakes, volcanoes and mountain building
- Rocks, minerals and the rock cycle: Minerals and their properties; Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks; Weathering, erosion and deposition
- Water and the atmosphere: The water cycle; Layers of the atmosphere and air pressure; Weather fronts, and weather versus climate
- Earth's history: Relative dating: reading the rock layers; Absolute dating and half-life; Fossils and the geologic time scale
- Earth in space: Rotation, revolution and the seasons; Moon phases and tides; Eclipses and the solar system
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Self-paced course · Grades 6 to 8 · Prepares for high school Human Geography and world studies
High School Ready: Human Geography
Six units take you through the big ideas of human geography: maps and scale, population and migration, culture, political geography, agriculture and food, and cities and economic development. Most students finish in about 8 to 12 weeks, working a few short sessions each week.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Thinking Geographically: Maps and Map Projections; Scale, Latitude and Longitude; Location, Place, Region and Space
- Population and Migration: Where People Live; How Populations Change; Migration: Why People Move
- Culture: Language and Religion; How Culture Spreads; Cultural Landscapes and Globalization
- Political Geography: States, Nations and Nation-States; Boundaries and Shapes of States; Working Together: Supranational Organizations
- Agriculture and Food: The First Agricultural Revolution; Subsistence and Commercial Farming; The Green Revolution and Where Food Comes From
- Cities and Economic Development: Urbanization; How Cities Are Organized; Economic Sectors and Measuring Development
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Self-paced course · Grades 6 to 8 · Prepares for Spanish 1
High School Ready: Spanish
Eighteen short lessons take a complete beginner from the sounds of Spanish to real sentences about school, family, food and weekend plans. Most students finish in six to nine weeks with three or four sessions a week.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Sounds and greetings: The alphabet and the five vowels; Consonants, stress and accent marks; Greetings, introductions, tú and usted
- Numbers, dates and time: Numbers from 0 to 100; Days, months and dates; Telling time
- Nouns and articles: Masculine and feminine nouns; Plurals, a and some, and hay; Adjectives, colors and the classroom
- People and family: Subject pronouns and the verb ser; Estar, and ser versus estar; Family and possessive adjectives
- Present tense regular verbs: Regular -ar verbs; Regular -er and -ir verbs; Asking questions and saying no
- Everyday life: Gustar and food; Tener, ir and free time; Making plans, and a short reading
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Self-paced course · Grades 6 to 8 · Prepares for French 1
High School Ready: French
Eighteen short lessons take a complete beginner from the first sounds of French to simple conversations about school, family, food, hobbies and weekend plans. Most students finish in 8 to 12 weeks at two or three lessons a week.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Sounds and greetings: The sounds of French; Greetings and goodbyes; Introducing yourself: tu and vous
- Numbers, dates and time: Numbers 0 to 69; Numbers 70 to 100 and telling time; Days, months and the date
- Nouns and articles: Gender and the word 'the'; A, an, some, and the classroom; Describing things with adjectives
- People and family: Subject pronouns and être; Avoir and describing people; Family and possessive adjectives
- The present tense: Regular -er verbs; Regular -ir and -re verbs; Asking questions and saying no
- Everyday life: Food, likes and the partitive; Hobbies with jouer and faire; Going places and the near future
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Self-paced course · Grades 6 to 8 · Prepares for German 1
High School Ready: German
Eighteen short lessons take a complete beginner from German sounds and greetings to talking about family, school, food and hobbies, with practice after every lesson and a quiz after every unit. Most students finish in six to ten weeks at two or three sessions a week.
6 units · 18 lessons · 54 practice questions · 6 unit quizzes · final exam · certificate
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- Sounds and greetings: German sounds and special letters; Greetings and goodbyes; Introducing yourself: du and Sie
- Numbers, dates and time: Numbers from 0 to 100; Days, months and seasons; Telling time and saying the date
- Nouns and articles: Capital letters and der, die, das; ein, eine and plurals; School words and classroom phrases
- People and family: Subject pronouns and sein; haben and describing people; Family and mein, dein
- The present tense: Regular verbs in the present tense; Stem-changing verbs and verb-second word order; Asking questions and saying no: nicht and kein
- Everyday life: Food and saying what you like; Hobbies and the accusative; möchten, ordering, and writing about yourself
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- Progress saves in the browser on the device your student uses; use the same device each time.
- Each lesson takes about 20 to 30 minutes. A course takes about six to ten weeks at two or three lessons a week.
- Language courses include a Hear it button that reads words aloud with the device's built-in voice.
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