Extra+Credit

Your student has an important decision to make about an academic challenge in English Roots class. With your permission and a notable amount of effort and learning, your student may accumulate enough bonus points to substitute for the final exam in December.

This is an optional challenge. Help your student keep the work load in perspective. A student who concentrates on regular class requirements and does well on the tests can earn an A in the course without undertaking any bonus assignments. You can help by going over your student’s lists or cards with them and helping with any words that he or she does not know automatically.

If you say, “Tell me the Greek root for light,” your student should be able to immediately say, spell and write PHOTOS.

Fifteen minutes a day is enough to review the eight parts of speech and fifty root words, their spellings and their definitions. (Note: Students in their second or third year must review roots 1-50 from previous years. )

If, however, your student needs an alternate method of study, he or she may earn significant bonus points with optional assignments appropriate to different learning styles. Many students have already earned 20 bonus points by reciting the Preamble to the United States Constitution, one of the most important documents of all time and an impressive use of English words based on Latin roots. Others have submitted reports about Latin in history or illustrated root words.

View Patriotic Documents for your student to memorize in Latin or English. Access a copy of 50 Bonus. To permit your student to replace the final exam with bonus points, print.

//How are bonus points used?// They are used to bring any test score up to 100% and they are used in place of the final exam, with student and parent permission. Bonus points cannot be used for missing work or to replace classroom presentations.