Toolbox: Grammar

Last term we finished our diagramming review. So heading forward, my aim is to catch up to where we are in Homer, and use either Harvey's or Mother Tongue as a base. Either is possible. Mother Tongue is on my computer s a PDF so printing out worksheets is very very easy. Too easy. The exercises are nicer to, but its a much longer text. Much longer.

• Monday: Introduction to the sentence and its parts. Aim is to record the definitions in our Tricks of the Trade book and move on. Since much of these chapters is review we should be able to get through most of Harvey's parts 1-6 during this session.
  
  
• Tuesday: Record the rules for plural endings. Review Subject and Predicate. Exercises from mother Tongue II chapter II
  
  
• Wednesday: Homer makes a diversion into phrases and clauses. Which I think we are starting to understand from our diagramming and Latin/Greek work. So work through Homer week 1 Day 3. Use our diagramming skills to work out what we are dealing with here.
  Finish with a fun review of abbreviations and conjunctions.
  
  
• Thursday: Harvey's work on singular and plural.
  Introduction to parsing. Looking at nouns only. using exercises from Homer week 2 day 3.
  

We possibly wont get through this much but at least I have enough to keep us busy and we will see where we get to.