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This is an Essential Test.  

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Week 8 Assignments

EEL  

Parents:  Heads-Up - Practice Sentence 4 has a Gerund, and Practice Sentence 5 has an infinitive phrase acting as a direct object.  Both of these "verbals" are diagrammed on a platform in the DO position; see Week 4, pg.77 for details. 

• Copying and Memorizing Charts A - I, new Chart 
• Daily Practice Sentence (1-5)
• Analytical Task Sheet (tasks 1-6) -- Task 5 through Compound Structure.
• Quid et Quo - whatever level you feel comfortable with
• Week 8 EEL editing exercises - Review punctuation and capitalization rules, spelling rules, and homophones

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• Assignment is on bottom of pg. 47 HBW-Student
• All of the required elements of your report are listed on the checklist on pg. 49.
• Label, highlight, or bold everything as instructed.

Parents:  On page 69 of the SRN, there are rules which address tricky words. Please go over this with your students.  On page 70 of the Resource Book, there is a worksheet to practice these grammar rules. The answers are in the HBW Teacher’s Manual on page 29.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!

A Glance at Week 7

We will dive into the Quid et Quo. 

Learn the TWSS Unit IV Structure for writing Reports and Short Essays, Topic Sentences  & Clinchers.

Bring to class:

EEL guide

Copy of pg. 437 (Quid et Quo-Basic)

Quid et Quo (Trivium Table)

Chart G 112 Sentence Chart: Compound

Chart I Adverbs

Chart EE Verb Moods

SRN: Add pages 7-8 if they have not been added yet.  Follow directions in the U.S. History Student Bk, pg. 25.

VOCABULARY BINGO - Study words through Lesson 5.

Week 6 Assignments

We are all Task 5 students now!  Yippee!!

Please bear with me as I continue to refine this Essentials process.  I am learning along with all of you some new methods and practices.  As I give suggestions and direction, remember to tailor them to your child's abilities.  I welcome your input and suggestions to help this become a great learning environment for your children. 

EEL

·      Daily Copying and Memorizing Charts A - H.  Copying charts is a great learning tool! 

·     Daily Practice Sentences (1-5) Analytical Task Sheet (1-5) -- Task 5 through the Compound structure only.

·     Reminder - Additional help for the Task Sheet is in a Special Section of Week 3.

·     Week 6 EEL editing exercises.

CHARTS - Students should be copying more than one chart each week.   They will memorize it over time, but this method will get more information into their heads in a shorter period of time.  As they memorize a chart continue to have them write it out once a week, then once every two weeks, and finally once a month to keep it in their long term memory.

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Parents - Use proofreading marks on rough draft.   

Students -   Write a final draft of "Mayflower" paper and make two copies.  On the first copy include margin indicators, on the second copy illustrate it and turn in.

·     Be sure to make all corrections indicated on your rough draft. 

·     Add:   the sentence openers ( 2, 3, & 6), and a creative title from your clincher (final sentence). 

·     Mark paper in the margins as instructed on one copy.

·     Illustrate your final draft without margin notes - turn in.

·     Follow the checklist on pg.35.

·     Each vocabulary word used earns a pebble; Prize for the most vocabulary words used.   

·     Study vocabulary words through Lesson 5, we will play Bingo in preparation for the quiz next week.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

A Look Ahead to Week 6

Reminder:  Class pictures will be taken on the 27th before class.

Add Student Resource Notebook pgs. 56-57

Add Vocabulary Words for Lesson 5 if you haven't already

We will be looking at:

Conjunctions (fanboys)

Compound Structure

Declarative and Exclamatory Purposes

S-Vt-DO Sentence Pattern

Task Sheet, primarily task 3 & 4, Question Confirmation / Diagramming

Charts G & H (112 Model Sentences for the Compound Structure and Conjunctions). 

In writing:  Prepositional Sentence Opener, Use of Commas

Study your vocabulary words, Lessons 1- 5.  We will test your knowledge with Taboo.

Week 5 Assignments

Congratulations!   Cy, Michelle, Shane, Meghan, Isabel and Joshua for mastering Chart A!

Keep copying.  You will be glad you did.

EEL

Daily Practice Sentence (#1-5) 

Analytical Task Sheet (tasks 1-4) -- Older students may include Task 5.

Week 5 EEL editing exercises

Copying and Memorizing Charts A,B,C,D,E,&F

Important Note:

If you child has already mastered Chart A (proven in class), they may write out their next chart from memory at home and bring it to class.  I will accept the level of memorized work you require for your home and we will add a piece to their "Grammar Puzzle".  I hope this will help with the time issue.  The goal is to get the information into their heads.  

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The assignment this week is a 3 paragraph story.  However, FIRST year students may combine paragraphs 2 & 3 into one paragraph.  So the entire assignment ends up being a 2 paragraph story rather than 3 paragraphs. 

Complete KWO, brainstorming, and rough draft using the Rough Checklists.

1^st paragraph & KWO is on page 24 of the US History Student Bk. with brainstorming activity to help with action verbs, -LY words, & quality adjectives on page 25.

2^nd & 3^rd paragraph & KWO is on page 26 of Student Bk.  If you are going to combine the 2 paragraphs then use the KWO and rough checklist for paragraph 3.    The brainstorming activities for these paragraphs are on page 27. 

RECAP:

This week, write a 2 or 3 paragraph rough draft.

Next week we will edit the rough draft, add more detail, and write the final copy using the Final Checklist in Lesson Six.

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Week 4 Assignments

The students seem to be doing well in the class.  If anyone is struggling please let me know. 

Hooray, for Cy, keep up the good work on those charts!  :)  

Enjoy your week off.  See you on the 20th.

EEL

·            Daily Copying and Memorizing Charts A,B,C,D,E,&F  Copying the chart is a great learning tool!  And remember to "scale" the work to the needs of your child/children.

·            Daily Practice Sentence (#2-5) Analytical Task Sheet (tasks 1-4) -- Older students may include Task 5 through the Compound structure only.

·            Reminder - Additional help for the Task Sheet is in a Special Section of Week 3.

·            Week 4 EEL editing exercises

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Parents - Use proofreading marks on rough draft.   

·            Vocabulary Quiz on words from Lesson 1-3.

Students -   Write a final draft and make two copies. 

·            Be sure to make all corrections indicated on your rough draft. 

·            Add:  who/which clause, the sentence openers (#3,#6), and a creative title from your clincher (final sentence). 

·            Mark paper in the margins as instructed on one copy.

·            Illustrate your final draft without margin notes.

·            Follow the checklist on pg.30.

·            Each vocabulary word earns a pebble. 

·            Using all the vocabulary words earns chocolate.

·            Start learning vocabulary words from Lesson 5.