Week 4 (You) Begin task sheets.

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Class Overview

We introduced the imperative sentence with the understood you.  We practiced changing declarative sentences into imperative sentences.  For instance, Miss Zielny speaks, becomes, Speak.  The colossal toddler stomped on an unsuspecting ant, became, Stomp! or rather Don't Stomp if you prefer.

From the imperative sentence, we moved on to interjections.  We talked about how the interjection is not really part of the grammar of a sentence, except to add emotion.  I explained that if we use an exclamation point after an interjection, it demands more emotion than a plain comma after an interjection.

Finally, we launched into the task sheet.  You will be using this tool throughout the rest of the year.  Either make copies and have your student "task" sentences in pencil and then move on to another sentence with another task sheet, or slip the task sheet into a page protector and use dry erase or vis-a-vis.

Assignments

Grammar (Drill Section)
Review memory work through week 4 and charts A-F.

Dialectic (Understanding Section)
Practice changing some declarative sentences into imperative.
Add an interjections to the beginning of a sentence.

Task Sheets
First year students: try tasks 1-2, then 3-4 if you and your student are comfortable.  Remember that writing a dictated sentence is a huge skill to undertake.  Then checking spelling and the elements of a sentence can be exhausting.  If 1-2 overwhelms, know that you are still in a good place.  Be willing to gauge where your child is and work with him at that level.  There will be much more time to move deeper in this curriculum.  (No crying in Essentials).

Second and third year students: Take on the task sheet!  If you have never done task 5, try it.  Dust out the cobweb build-up from summer and rewrite those sentences according to purpose, structure, and with modifiers.  Third year kids, even tackle the active and passive voice element.

Remember that task #6 is the Quid et Quo tool.

Suggested sentences are in the checklists as well as in the back of the mom folder that we handed out at orientation.

Here are a few in increasing difficulty:
Mom laughed.
Time flew.
Hope soared.
Wow! You won.
Dance.
Ryan and Andrew aimed carefully at the target.
A colossal toddler stomped an an unsuspecting ant.
Oh my goodness! Because the baby didn't know better, she sharply yanked my hair and spit up on my silk shirt.

Wow! If you task the last sentence, please bring it in for me to see!