Life of Fred: Language Arts Australia

Life of Fred: Language Arts Australia

The first book of the Life of Fred Language Arts Series covers . . .

• Indentation to begin paragraphs
• Three punctuation marks to end a sentence
• Punctuation began common usage around 1450 (with the invention of the printing press)
• Subjunctive mood used much more frequently in German, French, and Latin than in English
• Postscripts
• Six question words (who, when, where, why, what, and how)
• State abbreviations
• Plurals of words (two cases)
• Irregular plurals
• Opening and closing salutations
• Only the first word in a closing salutation is capitalized
• Silent letters
• Homonyms
• Proofreading
• Exaggerating vs. lying
• Hyperbole
• That vs. which
• Using commas in lists
• When to omit the s after the apostrophe when forming a possessive
• When to ask questions
• Continual vs. continuous
• Less vs. fewer
• Heteronyms
• Two past tenses of kneel and of dream
• Verbs defined
• Prefixes
• Stich and hemistich
• Alliteration
• Five ways to make plurals
• Two uses of an apostrophe
• Autobiography
• Vowels
• Six ways to make plurals
• Two past tenses of sneak
• A seventh and eighth way to make plurals

Unlike all other language arts programs, this one also teaches about:
• Seven billion = 7,000,000,000
• Two to the third power
•Picoseconds
•Correct way to hold a pencil
•Finding your calling in life
•Australia is between the Indian and the Pacific oceans
•Islands vs. continents–the four questions to ask
•Topology
•Daniel Boone
•Is noon a.m. or p.m.?
•A bus with no door
•Land of Nod
•Five- and fifteen-year-olds think about clothing differently
•Magnetic north pole is moving
•Pole reversals
•Winter in June
•How to have two summers and no winters each year
•International Date Line
•Which countries use the metric system

The answers are included in the textbook. Complete this book and you are ready for Life of Fred Begin Teaching.

• Age Level = 12 and up
• Book Author = Stanley F. Schmidt
• Book Material = Hardback
• Book Publisher = Polka Dot Publishing
• Book Series = Language Arts
• Copyright = c2021
• Grade Level = High School
• Condition = New