Students are welcome to read their papers
We are continuing to work on our Summarizing skills with the addition of Introductory Sentences and Final Clinchers. We will be working on a 2 or more paragraph essay this week. Each paragraph will have it's own topic/clincher sentences, but we will be adding an introductory sentence for the whole paper and a final clincher after the last paragraph clincher, that will wrap up the whole paper. This is one reason for more than one paragraph in our assignment this week. If we have only one paragraph, we wouldn't need an introductory sentence or final clincher. It would be redundant.
A source has been provided for us: Lessons 15 & 16 of our USHBW Lessons book (for younger students) and Lesson 17 (for older students), or as always choose your own topic.
Today we will read through the source text in Lesson 17. This is a very long source but that is for a reason. There is no way that we can include all this information, so we need to practice making decisions about what we want our paper to be about.
Read text, then make a KWO and brainstorm our Introduction and Final Clincher Sentences.
Resources:
TWSS Unit 4
SRN Pg 9
USHBWL Unit 4
Sunday, October 19, 2014
Week 9 EEL
Open with prayer.
Overview of today's lesson: Compound, Declarative, S-Vl-PN, Linking Verbs, Charts K, C, D, E
optional OMT Lessons 2, 23, 42
Review
Who can tell me what a verb is?
chant: a verb, is a word, that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links to words together, or helps another verb.
What are the four verb types?
Intransitive, Transitive, linking, helping
Who can define intransitive? transitive? linking? helping?
Can sing linking verb song with definition and list and helping verb song with list
Today we focus on the S-Vl-PN pattern in the Compound structure
What are the linking verbs again? (Write on board)
What is a predicate nominative? A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
Example:
Bob is a ball hitter. Hitter renames Bob. We could also say: The ball hitter is Bob. Bob = ball hitter
So wait a minute: How can we sat that 'is' is a linking verb when it's not on the list?
'Is' is a form of 'to be.' Review conjugations on the board
Infinitive to be
Present am, are, is
Past was, were
Pres. Participle being
Past Participle been
How about: Lucy became a queen.
Go through identifying jobs, making sure students clue in to the fact that even though queen answers the question 'what or whom?' after the verb, it would not be a direct object because no action is being transferred. Here is a good place to point out the importance of memorizing the linking verbs.
Now how do we diagram such a sentence?
Subj | verb\ PN
Can we come up with some of our own sentences?
Lilly feels upset so Madie becomes sad.
The cupcakes taste disgusting and they seem old.
(These are just some examples I came up with.)
Have students practice diagraming these as well.
Homework:
Charts K,C,D, E
Tasks 1-4,5,or 6
OMT lessons 2, 23, 42
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Overview of today's lesson: Compound, Declarative, S-Vl-PN, Linking Verbs, Charts K, C, D, E
optional OMT Lessons 2, 23, 42
Review
Who can tell me what a verb is?
chant: a verb, is a word, that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links to words together, or helps another verb.
What are the four verb types?
Intransitive, Transitive, linking, helping
Who can define intransitive? transitive? linking? helping?
Can sing linking verb song with definition and list and helping verb song with list
Today we focus on the S-Vl-PN pattern in the Compound structure
What are the linking verbs again? (Write on board)
What is a predicate nominative? A noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and renames the subject.
Example:
Bob is a ball hitter. Hitter renames Bob. We could also say: The ball hitter is Bob. Bob = ball hitter
So wait a minute: How can we sat that 'is' is a linking verb when it's not on the list?
'Is' is a form of 'to be.' Review conjugations on the board
Infinitive to be
Present am, are, is
Past was, were
Pres. Participle being
Past Participle been
How about: Lucy became a queen.
Go through identifying jobs, making sure students clue in to the fact that even though queen answers the question 'what or whom?' after the verb, it would not be a direct object because no action is being transferred. Here is a good place to point out the importance of memorizing the linking verbs.
Now how do we diagram such a sentence?
Subj | verb\ PN
Can we come up with some of our own sentences?
Lilly feels upset so Madie becomes sad.
The cupcakes taste disgusting and they seem old.
(These are just some examples I came up with.)
Have students practice diagraming these as well.
Homework:
Charts K,C,D, E
Tasks 1-4,5,or 6
OMT lessons 2, 23, 42
Spellingcity.com
Saturday, October 18, 2014
Week 8- EEL-Fun with Prepositions!
Greetings fellow Essentials families.
Found here is an overview of our class together.
Our focus this week is: Compound Structure, Interrogative, Prepositions, S-Vt-DO, Charts J, E, G, I
After prayer we went over the 8 parts of speech. We have covered almost all of these in class.
Since our focus is prepositions, who can define a preposition for me? (La Cucaracha)
Sing Preposition Song from Cycle 1. Refer to Chart J.
Compound Interrogative Sentences
What is an interrogative sentence? Asks a question.
What is a compound sentence? Consists of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
We took a compound sentence and reviewed the three ways to make a Declarative sentence into an Interrogative sentence.
Example: Jesus loves me and He loves you.
1) Add a question mark: Jesus loves me and He loves you?
2) Use interrogative pronouns: Who loves me and who loves you?
3) Use helping verbs: Does Jesus love me and does he love you?
Let's take out our Analytical Task sheets to label and diagram #3 above.
One help we discussed was rewriting an interrogative into a declarative. This puts the verbs together making it easier for the students to handle them.
Prepositional Phrases
We then defined a prepositional phrase: consisting of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers that may exist between them and functions as an adverb or an adjective in a sentence.
Remember with prepositional phrases you always have a preposition and an object of the preposition.
In these examples, let's identify the preposition and it's object.
Through the window
Over the hill
Under the tree
We recalled, using our song sheets, what adverbs and adjectives were and what questions they answered. Then we worked with examples.
The boy hugged his mother in the morning.
Do you see a prepositional phrase here?
What is the preposition? What is its object? In what?
Is this phrase acting as an adjective or an adverb? Adverb
The boy in the blue striped shirt hugged his mother.
Do you see a prepositional phrase here?
What is the preposition?
What is its object? In what?
Is this phrase acting as an adverb or an adjective?
How do we diagram these?
Found here is an overview of our class together.
Our focus this week is: Compound Structure, Interrogative, Prepositions, S-Vt-DO, Charts J, E, G, I
After prayer we went over the 8 parts of speech. We have covered almost all of these in class.
Since our focus is prepositions, who can define a preposition for me? (La Cucaracha)
Sing Preposition Song from Cycle 1. Refer to Chart J.
Compound Interrogative Sentences
What is an interrogative sentence? Asks a question.
What is a compound sentence? Consists of two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
We took a compound sentence and reviewed the three ways to make a Declarative sentence into an Interrogative sentence.
Example: Jesus loves me and He loves you.
1) Add a question mark: Jesus loves me and He loves you?
2) Use interrogative pronouns: Who loves me and who loves you?
3) Use helping verbs: Does Jesus love me and does he love you?
Let's take out our Analytical Task sheets to label and diagram #3 above.
One help we discussed was rewriting an interrogative into a declarative. This puts the verbs together making it easier for the students to handle them.
Prepositional Phrases
We then defined a prepositional phrase: consisting of a preposition, its object, and any modifiers that may exist between them and functions as an adverb or an adjective in a sentence.
Remember with prepositional phrases you always have a preposition and an object of the preposition.
In these examples, let's identify the preposition and it's object.
Through the window
Over the hill
Under the tree
We recalled, using our song sheets, what adverbs and adjectives were and what questions they answered. Then we worked with examples.
The boy hugged his mother in the morning.
Do you see a prepositional phrase here?
What is the preposition? What is its object? In what?
Is this phrase acting as an adjective or an adverb? Adverb
The boy in the blue striped shirt hugged his mother.
Do you see a prepositional phrase here?
What is the preposition?
What is its object? In what?
Is this phrase acting as an adverb or an adjective?
How do we diagram these?
Week 8 IEW-Reports
Students read their Borrowing a Conflict paper.
Today we are going to start Unit 4 on Summarizing or Report writing. In the beginning of the year, we started writing our KWO sentence by sentence, choosing three words. We will not be doing that again for the rest of the year. In this Unit, we are going to be writing key words based on facts, not sentences. We will take what we think is important or interesting. We can't take everything, so we need to make some decisions about what to include.
Our mission is to write 1-3 paragraphs on a topic, include a topic sentence, a clincher and dress-ups. A source is provided for you in our USHBW book on pg. 104 Lesson 14: Colonial Life: Church, or you may choose your own topic.
Please also reference the summarizing outline guideline in TWSS Unit 4 and/or USHBW Lesson 14.
We have been using our clincher sentence to come up with our title. Now we are going to learn about topic sentences and clinchers. A topic sentence tells the audience what the paragraph will be about. Your clincher sentence reflects the topic sentence without repeating it exactly. It reminds the audience what the paragraph was about.
Let's take a look at this in action. Please turn to page 102 in your USHBW book. We will read this selection and pick out the key words from the topic sentence that are reflected in the clincher.
Now we will try one on our own.
Use source text (pg. 104 USHBW) to create a KWO with the class. Begin writing paragraph and review Topic/Clincher skill.
Please remember to include the dress ups we have learned in your report. A checklist is provided on pg. 107. First years feel free to complete one paragraph. Second and third years please challenge yourselves by completing 2-3 paragraphs.
Today we are going to start Unit 4 on Summarizing or Report writing. In the beginning of the year, we started writing our KWO sentence by sentence, choosing three words. We will not be doing that again for the rest of the year. In this Unit, we are going to be writing key words based on facts, not sentences. We will take what we think is important or interesting. We can't take everything, so we need to make some decisions about what to include.
Our mission is to write 1-3 paragraphs on a topic, include a topic sentence, a clincher and dress-ups. A source is provided for you in our USHBW book on pg. 104 Lesson 14: Colonial Life: Church, or you may choose your own topic.
Please also reference the summarizing outline guideline in TWSS Unit 4 and/or USHBW Lesson 14.
We have been using our clincher sentence to come up with our title. Now we are going to learn about topic sentences and clinchers. A topic sentence tells the audience what the paragraph will be about. Your clincher sentence reflects the topic sentence without repeating it exactly. It reminds the audience what the paragraph was about.
Let's take a look at this in action. Please turn to page 102 in your USHBW book. We will read this selection and pick out the key words from the topic sentence that are reflected in the clincher.
Now we will try one on our own.
Use source text (pg. 104 USHBW) to create a KWO with the class. Begin writing paragraph and review Topic/Clincher skill.
Please remember to include the dress ups we have learned in your report. A checklist is provided on pg. 107. First years feel free to complete one paragraph. Second and third years please challenge yourselves by completing 2-3 paragraphs.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Week 7 EEL
We started out with our prayer then went on to cover Adverbs, S-Vt-Do in the Imperative, and the Compound sentence structure.
Review
We reviewed Chart A by handing out a blank piece of paper and challenging the kids to write down as much of Chart A as they could.
Volunteers come up to diagram.
Julia loves animals.
Elijah studies grammar.
Calli feeds Presley.
Compound, Imperative, S-Vt-DO
We know what a compound sentence is, right? What is it?
What about an imperative?
And tell me about S-Vt-DO.
Today, we are going to put all of these together.
Let's start with the imperative. How would we change our 3 example sentences into imperative?
Love animals. Study grammar. Feed Presley.
*Remember the understood you!
Who loves? Loves what?
How would we diagram these?
Compound
Let's make these into compound sentences.
Example: Love animals and study grammar. Feed Presley but...
.....so......(students give examples)
What if we want to make sure that the person we are addressing understands that we are talking to them?
Julia, love animals. Elijah, study grammar. Calli, feed Presley.
What do we call this term? Noun of Direct Address.
How would we diagram these? *Remember NDA's hover like UFO's
What about an appositive? An appositive is a noun (or pronoun) directly beside another noun which explains or identifies it.
Example: My dog Rover eats biscuits.
Rover is identifying the noun dog and it's beside it.
How do we diagram this?
We put the appositive in parenthesis next to the noun.
Adverbs:
Now let's talk about adverbs. Who can tell me what an adverb is?
Let's get out our song sheets and review this a few times.
An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective or another adverb
It answers the questions How? When? Where? and Why?
How often? How much? and Under what condition?
Don't forget To What extent?
(sung to the tune of the I Love You song from Barney)
So adverbs answer the questions:
How, When, Where, Why, How often, How much, To what extent, and Under what condition?
Let's look at Chart I. Review Chart.
Most of the time adverbs give themselves away with their -ly but they can be phrases or clauses.
Let's add some adverbs to our sentences.
Have kids pick adverbs to add to example sentences such as:
Julia loves animals continually.
Elijah studies grammar reluctantly. etc.
How do we diagram adverbs?
Show that the adverb is written on a slanted line hanging off the word it modifies.
Homework:
Tasks 1-4, 5, 6 depending on experience
Chart I
Continue to work on memorizing Chart A
optional-Our Mother Tongue Lesson on Adverbs
Games: Around the World (flashcards) and Four in a Row
Review
We reviewed Chart A by handing out a blank piece of paper and challenging the kids to write down as much of Chart A as they could.
Volunteers come up to diagram.
Julia loves animals.
Elijah studies grammar.
Calli feeds Presley.
Compound, Imperative, S-Vt-DO
We know what a compound sentence is, right? What is it?
What about an imperative?
And tell me about S-Vt-DO.
Today, we are going to put all of these together.
Let's start with the imperative. How would we change our 3 example sentences into imperative?
Love animals. Study grammar. Feed Presley.
*Remember the understood you!
Who loves? Loves what?
How would we diagram these?
Compound
Let's make these into compound sentences.
Example: Love animals and study grammar. Feed Presley but...
.....so......(students give examples)
What if we want to make sure that the person we are addressing understands that we are talking to them?
Julia, love animals. Elijah, study grammar. Calli, feed Presley.
What do we call this term? Noun of Direct Address.
How would we diagram these? *Remember NDA's hover like UFO's
What about an appositive? An appositive is a noun (or pronoun) directly beside another noun which explains or identifies it.
Example: My dog Rover eats biscuits.
Rover is identifying the noun dog and it's beside it.
How do we diagram this?
We put the appositive in parenthesis next to the noun.
Adverbs:
Now let's talk about adverbs. Who can tell me what an adverb is?
Let's get out our song sheets and review this a few times.
An adverb is used to modify a verb, adjective or another adverb
It answers the questions How? When? Where? and Why?
How often? How much? and Under what condition?
Don't forget To What extent?
(sung to the tune of the I Love You song from Barney)
So adverbs answer the questions:
How, When, Where, Why, How often, How much, To what extent, and Under what condition?
Let's look at Chart I. Review Chart.
Most of the time adverbs give themselves away with their -ly but they can be phrases or clauses.
Let's add some adverbs to our sentences.
Have kids pick adverbs to add to example sentences such as:
Julia loves animals continually.
Elijah studies grammar reluctantly. etc.
How do we diagram adverbs?
Show that the adverb is written on a slanted line hanging off the word it modifies.
Homework:
Tasks 1-4, 5, 6 depending on experience
Chart I
Continue to work on memorizing Chart A
optional-Our Mother Tongue Lesson on Adverbs
Games: Around the World (flashcards) and Four in a Row
Week 7 IEW
I am so glad everyone wants to read their papers. I enjoy watching them try out the things they have learned each week.
Today we are going to be making up our own story, but borrowing a conflict from another and learning alliteration and the www.asia.wub clause.
Alliteration
Before we get started on our story, let's talk about our dress-ups.
Can anyone tell me what alliteration is? Two or more words that start with the same sound.
Give me an example.
Thunder and tornado start with t but not the same sound, so they wouldn't qualify as alliteration.
Let's play a game. Divide into teams. I will give you a sentence and a sound and you are to come up with examples using the sentence. You will receive one point per word that qualifies as alliteration.
Example: Young rabbits hop. (B)
Baby bunnies bounce behind buggies because blueberries bobbed on bushes.
The wind swept through the city. (T)
The warriors saw the enemy walk away. (S)
www.asia.wub clause
Can anyone tell me what this stands for? When, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, until, because
Can anyone tell me what part of speech these words are? Adverbs!
We just talked about those. When we make a phrase using these words it is an adverbial clause.
Can anyone give me an example?
Are there any in the sentences that we made?
Borrowing a conflict
A good example of this in our USHBW book on page 228. This story take the conflict from "The Ugly Duckling," changes the characters and setting and creates a whole new story. It's actually pretty good.
So in our USHBW book using lesson 13 as a guideline, we can start brainstorming some ideas for our story. They list 'The Tortoise and the Hare,' 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' and 'The Three Bears' as all good places to start.
If you'd like to challenge your student, get them thinking about putting this story in the setting of pre-revolution America with characters that could be from that time. But no worries if that doesn't get them fired up.
Let's pick a conflict from one story, change the characters and setting and rewrite it.
Remember to use the Story Sequence Chart
I. Setting, Characters and Background
II.Conflict-what do they want/need
III. Climax and Resolution
Homework:
Choose a conflict from any story (any Aesop fable works) and rewrite it with your own characters and setting.
Today we are going to be making up our own story, but borrowing a conflict from another and learning alliteration and the www.asia.wub clause.
Alliteration
Before we get started on our story, let's talk about our dress-ups.
Can anyone tell me what alliteration is? Two or more words that start with the same sound.
Give me an example.
Thunder and tornado start with t but not the same sound, so they wouldn't qualify as alliteration.
Let's play a game. Divide into teams. I will give you a sentence and a sound and you are to come up with examples using the sentence. You will receive one point per word that qualifies as alliteration.
Example: Young rabbits hop. (B)
Baby bunnies bounce behind buggies because blueberries bobbed on bushes.
The wind swept through the city. (T)
The warriors saw the enemy walk away. (S)
www.asia.wub clause
Can anyone tell me what this stands for? When, while, where, as, since, if, although, whereas, until, because
Can anyone tell me what part of speech these words are? Adverbs!
We just talked about those. When we make a phrase using these words it is an adverbial clause.
Can anyone give me an example?
Are there any in the sentences that we made?
Borrowing a conflict
A good example of this in our USHBW book on page 228. This story take the conflict from "The Ugly Duckling," changes the characters and setting and creates a whole new story. It's actually pretty good.
So in our USHBW book using lesson 13 as a guideline, we can start brainstorming some ideas for our story. They list 'The Tortoise and the Hare,' 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf,' 'Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer,' and 'The Three Bears' as all good places to start.
If you'd like to challenge your student, get them thinking about putting this story in the setting of pre-revolution America with characters that could be from that time. But no worries if that doesn't get them fired up.
Let's pick a conflict from one story, change the characters and setting and rewrite it.
Remember to use the Story Sequence Chart
I. Setting, Characters and Background
II.Conflict-what do they want/need
III. Climax and Resolution
Homework:
Choose a conflict from any story (any Aesop fable works) and rewrite it with your own characters and setting.
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