Checklists, Instructions and Encouragement

I wanted to spell out the instructions I gave you for the checklists that most of you picked up on Tuesday.

There were 4 piles of paper
1. Checklists: consist of the main bulk of the copies (largest pile of papers)--These are the student pages.
2. Essentials Editing Exercises: These are numbered 1-12 and are two sided.  Please collate these work pages with the student checklist.  Each page (numbered by appropriate week) needs to be placed at the back of each week's first lesson (Wednesday).
3. Answer Keys: this packet contains all the Our Mother Tongue lesson answers as well as the forum sentences, parsed and diagrammed. This packet is intended for teacher use.
4. Synopsis Pages: this packet starts with the Forum Sentence synopsis, and also includes capitalization and punctuation rules overview, spelling rules overview, and all the optional vocabulary quizzes that go along with IEW vocabulary.

If you are overwhelmed by this resource and it doesn't contribute to peace of mind, please set it aside for a while and try it later, after further understanding makes it comfortable or when you get your sea legs with Essentials.

If you're overwhelmed, please revert to memory work only.  Remember that the first couple of weeks are heavy for memory work, but pretty soon it will settle down to a reasonable pace. Also, understand that the memory work needs to be introduced right away, but that mastery will take some time. Be patient with yourself.  If you feel tempted to cry, please breathe and scale back.  Feel free to email me or call if you need a lifeline or need to understand how to scale back.  Three quarters of the battle with Essentials is understanding how to approach it.

Have a blessed week everyone!