WEEK 7
Words of Encouragement
“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 Consider the many attributes we are instilling into our children here with Essentials.
Latin Word of the Day- adverbium (expressing addition)
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REVIEW: We had the boy write out FANBOYS on their boards and the girl write out SPIDO PONA on their boards. I briefly explained both the N & A and FANBOYS.
N= Noun of Direct Address (NDA)
A NDA is a person or thing that is being addressed or directly spoken to in a sentence. Implied you would still the subject of the independent clause. The names are included for additional clarity. If you remove the NDA, the sentence is still a sentence; therefore, they cannot be the subjects. NDA is diagrammed just like an interjection because it does not impact the sentence grammatically.
Taylor, eat your veggies.
A= Appositive (AP) is a noun (or pronoun)
An AP is noun or pronoun that is directly beside another noun that explains or describes it. How do you diagram an appositive? It goes right next to the noun on the main line.
My son Taylor ate his veggies.
NEW GRAMMAR: Here are the new concepts we covered today.
P.O.S: Adverbs
Adverbs (AV). (LOOK AT CHART I)
An adverb modifies a verb, adjective, or another adverb. An adverb answers these questions: How? When? Where? Why? How often? How much? To what extent? Under what condition?
One-word adverbs:
SIMPLE= no suffix needed. Pull hard! Hard answers how. Hard modifies the verb Pull.
FLEXIONAL = is formed by adding -ly to an adjective. He ran slowly. Slowly answers how.
NEGATIVE = expresses a negative condition. She never talks to strangers. Never tells how often.
AFFIRMATIVE = expresses affirmative condition. Yes, I am. Yes = affirmative adverb because it answers to what extent am I going, affirmative condition.
Multi-word adverbs:
ADVERBIAL PHRASE= phrase used as a single adverb. The Bible was written for our benefit. Prepositional phrase for our benefit answers why.
ADVERBIAL CLAUSE = clause used as a single adverb in the sentence. (Used in complex sentences. We will get into these in the weeks to come.) He ran as if his life depended upon it. The clause, as if his life depended upon it, modifies the verb ran and answers the question how. www.asia.wub, it is an adverbial clause.
Diagramming an adverb: remember WHAT an adverb modifying? It will always go under the word it is modifying.
SENTENCE STRUCTURE: Chart G Compound A compound sentence consists of at least two independent clauses joined by a coordinating conjunction.
PURPOSE: Imperative- makes a command (Implied you)
PATTERN: S-Vt-DO, In a Subject-Verb Transitive pattern, the verb transfers the action of the verb to a noun or pronoun (direct object) that follows it. To find the direct object, ask “(Subj.)(Verb) who or what?”
(DIALECTIC)
COMBO OF 3: We put these three combinations together, and TASKED a sentence.
#1: Dictate sentence:
#2: Check Mechanics.
#3: Question confirmation.
#4: Diagram Sentences.
MATH
DRILL FACTS- We took literally a MINUTE to write out our facts. We did the 3's, 6's, and 9's.
MENTAL MATH - We had Chloe and Victoria come up and share a mental math string. Everyone did great! We have a few others to do next week.
BATTLESHIP: We ended in a quick fun variation of Battleship Boardslam
REVIEW:
We took time to listen in on our friend's paper and took note of the dress ups. Each paper came up with great amount of points! WTG girls!!!
STRUCTURE:
We are moving on to a NEW STRUCTURE! The first step to writing a research paper is learning how to summarize.
The points stressed in this unit are:
1. Only use some of the text. Some-a-rize. Show funnel….
2. Choose details that are interesting, important, or relevant.
3. Each paragraph has its own topic. In this unit, only one paragraph will be written so there will only be one topic.
4. Key words are taken from facts; not from each sentence.
5. Roman Numeral 1 now has a purpose- it becomes the TOPIC SENTENCE. And below it is a Clincher. There is a rule to be learned. It goes like this. “The TOPIC SENTENCE and THE CLINCHER SENTENCE *MUST* Repeat and Reflect 2-3 KEY words” THINK HAMBURGER, THINK BOOKENDS
6. PARENTS- this is about the process, not the end product. RESEARCH!
7. Take note of the ratio below.
8. Have to be careful with our dress ups, we need to preserve the facts.
STYLE:
QUALITY ADJECTIVES:An adjective is a word that describes a noun. Adjective tells things like what color, what size, what shape, what kind, what emotion, how many. There are some plain ol’ adjectives that we are BANNING. Words like good, pretty, big. Let us look at the SRP to replace them with QUALITY ADJECTIVES.
We practiced reading one paragraph from my PUMPKIN source text. This was in effort to mimic what needed to be done at home this week with Lesson 10: Declaration of Independence.
Step 1: Read Text
Step 2: Fill in Topic Sentence
Step 3: KWO 5-7 Interesting Text Facts
Step 4: Add dress ups
Step 5: Write sentences, utilize checklist.
