Week 15: "Quid et Quo" means "What and Why?"

I'm terribly proud of your kids! They are so smart and make our class time so much fun!

During our EEL time today, we worked through the EEL Task Sheet, both front and back, and also introduced the "Quid et Quo" chart. I thought the kids did really well with modifying our sentence about the barking dog, and I think they'll pick up on the basic "Quit et Quo" quickly as they work through a couple of simple sentences at home. Using the EEL Task Sheet and "Quid et Quo" during your time with them this week will reveal to both you as parents and them as students what they understand and what they don't. When it comes to the "Quid et Quo" details, make them use those charts when they can't remember the answers! Celebrate what they know, and help them with what confuses them! (Or put it off til a bit later...)

The EEL Guide suggests focusing on complex interrogative S-Vt-IO-DO sentences this week. I'd start with simple sentence structures, purposes and patterns. Parse them, diagram them, Quid et Quo them. Then add modifiers and do it again. Then move to more difficult structures, purposes and patterns and repeat the process. Give them some easy stuff, but also tackle something more challenging and work through it together. See if you can get all the way up to the guide's suggested sentence!

Also notice that Week 15 demonstrates how to diagram interjections. We didn't cover this in class today. I'll incorporate it sometime, but it would be easy for you to do at home with a sentence modification from declarative to exclamatory.

IEW should be fairly simple. We opted for stretching this assignment to four weeks in order to give the kids time to write five excellent and polished paragraphs. The kids can bring their rough draft paragraphs and checklists to show me next week, but turning them in for comments and return the following week will be optional.

• All they need to complete this week are the key word outlines, fused outline and the rough draft for Topic A, which is "How Rome Began."
• NEXT week, they will complete the KWOs, fused outline and rough draft for Topics B & C, which are "Roman Government" and "Roman Society."
• During Week 3, they'll use their three topics and information from the "Rome's Greatness" source paragraphs to brainstorm and write both introductory and conclusion rough draft paragraphs.
• Finally, Week 4 is the week to revise, add dress-ups and openers, and polish! I'll try to allow extra reading time in class for these highly important research reports!

As always, please contact me if you have any questions. Thank you again for sharing your kids with me and for teaching them so well at home! Y'all are the best!