Week 11: Review is productive. S/Vl/PA

Thank you for switching around the way we did class today so that I could get back to my sick kiddos. It really helped to be gone only for an hour.  Thanks, Tina and Cynthia, for being so flexible, and thanks, moms, for enduring a combined class two weeks in a row.  Hopefully the crud will move on and we will be able to get back to normal next week.

Class Overview

Review!  We began with a pop quiz of sorts.  I pulled out the memory work cards to find out how much memory work has been mastered.  The students, of course, are at different levels of mastery.  Second and third year students and Memory Masters have an advantage because they have been exposed to the information more, but all students should have been somewhat familiar with the terms.

Moms, if you do nothing else, drill memory work.  This is priority number one for making headway in EEL.

Next, we worked through a few Charlie Brown sentences from the beloved Pig Pen.  Click here to get the complete document (with answers, Moms).  It really is quite a bit harder to be given a sentence and told to identify the structure rather than working from a given structure and knowing that the sentence probably fits that pattern.

Fianally, we worked through Task 5 on the task sheet.  I was thrilled to be able to go this far in tasking; the review week lends to more time for this exercise.  Definitely begin integrating Task 5 in with your task sheets this week.  Our sentence this week was Sarah, my neighbor, became bold, and Macy remained shy. (SN, (appositive)/Vl/PA, cc, SN/Vl/PA)

Grammar

Drill memory work.
Review charts.

Dialectic

Use the task sheets, through task five, to work through sentences.
Identify sentence patterns using the Pig Pen worksheet. This resource only uses the first four sentence structures that we have already covered.  Click the link above, or copy the following web address in your browser to download the document.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/75809442/Week11%20Pig%20Pen%20and%20sentence%20structures.pdf

If you would rather, use some of these sample sentences:
My dad laughed loudly.
God's promise was a rainbow. (Well, I know that the actual promise wasn't the rainbow, but work with me for the sake of sentence structure).
My mother, Cindy, loves me and cares for me.
Seth felt happy.
The boy on the bike rode through town, but I stayed on the playground.
Tom tricked his friends, and they whitewashed the fence.
A peacock is a fancy bird.
The football team's mascot was not a tiger.
I eat hot dogs, but she likes tacos.
Jeremy and Nathan wrote the sentence.

Moms and students, if you get stuck please refer to the Simple Steps for Solving Sentences sheet in the student notebook (toward back of the EEL portion, blue/green sheet).  It will lead you through the right questions to determine things like DO, PA, and PN.

If you are still stuck on a sentence you can email me.  We will work through it together and ask the right questions to determine the answer.  This is all about the thinking and analyzing process that leads to truth (even if Macy remains shy).

In closing, I would like to share my favorite S/Vl/PN sentence.

God is love!
Can I switch them?
Love is God!
Yes, I can. He doesn't have love--He is love!  So, the only way we can love others is to have Him move in us.  What a glorious thought.  Everything good and pleasant comes from who He is.