Week 1: Students start!

Students start!

Simple
Exclamatory
S/Vi
And an alliteration

Announcements this week:

1. Checklists: This week's checklists will come to you in electronic form because I failed to get the copies made (store was closed on Saturday of Labor Day weekend).  If you are a second or third year Essentials student, go ahead and use the emailed checklist. If you are a first year Essentials student, please put the checklist on the shelf for the first couple of weeks and just work on the memory work. If you haven't already paid me, please bring $6 next week for your checklist workbook.

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Assignments this week:

Memory Work (Grammar)
First Year Students: copy chart A, looking back and forth between the master and blank, and then take out a blank sheet of paper and see how much you can remember. To mix it up, use the memory work flashcards to drill--only study week 1.  Work on writing out chart A every day this week.

Veteran Students: get to the place where you can take out a blank sheet of paper and write out the Sentence Classification Chart (Chart A) with ease.  You already know this information: now master it.

Understanding (Dialectic)
1. Subjects/verbs 
Moms, make sure your child has an understanding of subjects and verbs and has the ability to identify them in a simple sentence.  You can cover compound subjects and implied subjects (those imperative sentences have implied "you" as their subject every time) if you want to.  I will hit these next week.

Also, you can refer to chart B (112 Model Sentences-Simple) for examples of how the simple sentence  can be configured to make all 7 sentence patterns.

2. Checklist (veteran students only)
Follow the checklist for a thorough review of week one.  This will lead you through a "drill" portion and a "do" portion.  The "do" portion is the dialectic part.