Week 18: We considered today's review games delicious and today's party fun! (S/Vt/DO/OCA)

Class Overview

What a fun time we had as a combined group today!  Thank you, moms, for all the extra helping hands.

What did we do in EEL? Review, review, review!  We have almost reached the end of fleshing out Chart A.  We only lack the compound-complex sentence structure.  There is still plenty more to learn during these last six weeks, but please consider it gravy.  We've already bitten into the meat of the curriculum.  Now we need to chew on it a bit.  That's what today was about: making sense of what we have covered to date.

How can I review at home?  Here are some ideas.

Write three or four sentences that have different purposes, structures and patterns.
1) Have your child parse and diagram each
2) Ask for a specific structure, purpose or pattern and have them choose the right one
3) Draw a diagram and ask them to identify which sentence fits
4) Have them rewrite a sentence, changing the purpose.

Name a pattern and have your child come up with a sentence that fits.


We used the following sentences in class to review structure, purpose and pattern.  Thank you, Erin Richardson, who wrote these and used them in her EEL class. What a treasure!  The sentences were listed down the left side.  The patterns were listed in a random order down the right side.  Students had to match the sentences and patterns.

Blue whales are mammals. (S-Vl-PN)
Unlike most mammals, they live in the ocean. (S-Vi)
These gentle creatures eat krill. (S-Vt-DO)
Their bodies are extremely long and leathery. (S-Vl-PA)
If I were to see one up close, it might give me a fright! (S-Vt-IO-DO)
Would you call these behemoths scary? (S-Vt-DO-OCA)
Or do you consider them one of God's most amazing creations? (S-Vt-DO-OCN)

In class we matched these sentences with their patterns, but you can go further and identify structure and purpose as well.

Grammar

Drill memory work and charts that need the student needs to master still.

Dialectic

Work through the sentences we went over in class, identifying structure and purpose.
Choose one sentence and work all the way through task #6 (the Quid et Quo).