Week 14

WEEK 14

Words of Encouragement

“My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.” Proverbs 2:1-5

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REVIEW: VERBS! 

We reviewed everything verbs. Next week--> more on verbs! 💛

SENTENCE STRUCTURE

Cx: has an independent clause and a subordinate clause. 

I revisited the two different clauses. (Purple and Green) We quickly talked through Adverbial.

PURPOSE: 

Imperative: What do we know about the Imperative purpose?  (Intro: Wk 4)

1. Imperative = command or request

2. You is the implied subject of the imperative purpose.

3. 2nd person implied “you” subject.

PATTERN: S-Vt-IO-DO

Indirect Object = a noun or pronoun located between the transitive verb and the direct object that tells to whom or for whom the action is done and who is receiving the direct object.

** A sentence will not have an IO without a DO. **

** The transitive verb only transfers action to DO, not IO.**

** Indirect Objects ALWAYS come between the verb and the DO. **

NEW GRAMMAR: One more new concept to cover! 

P.O.S.: VERBS VOICE (ACTIVE AND PASSIVE)

Remember on the verb or the heart chart, there is an attribute called VOICE. In the picture, there is a big speech bubble. Anyone remember what was in the bubble?

What does voice mean? Voice is the way a verb functions relative to the subject of the sentence. Review chart DD (Verb Anatomy-Passive). We looked over over and discussed.

ACTIVE VOICE = The Subject Acts.

PASSIVE VOICE = The subject is acted upon.

In order to change a sentence from active to passive, we need to do a few things.

1. A helping verb in the form of ‘to be’ must be used (to be, am, are, is, was, were, be, being, been)
2. The original verb becomes a past participle. (a past participle is a verb plus -ed used as an adjective or verb.)
3. If the sentence has a direct object, it will become the subject

If you look at chart DD, there are more sentences in passive voice. This is somewhat deep water material. But it is OKAY, you have all tread water and have the strength to tread.

Action verbs are always best. But sometimes passive can be useful.

The judicial system- The milk was spilt, Medical transcripts, Scientific Writing.

      In writing, it can serve a great purpose.

1.    Want to show sympathy to the subject.

The tornado demolished the town.  The town was demolished by the tornado.

The deer was hit by a car. The car hit the deer.

2.    For the element of surprise.

Mrs. Strickland was defeated by the Essentials students in a game of Chart Wars.  VERSUS The Essentials students defeated Mrs. Strickland in a game of Chart Wars.

DIALECTIC: We fleshed out the COMBO OF 3:

We put these three combinations together to write a few sentences. 

#1:  Dictate sentence.

#2:  Check Mechanics.

#3:  Question confirmation.

#4:  Diagram Sentences.

I noticed that we have a room of students who are at all different levels with diagramming. The chief goal is that we are all MOVING FORWARD towards understanding! 

PARENTS- DO NOT GIVE UP ON FLESHING OUT THESE SENTENCES. This is the essence of the dialectic phase. 

MATH

A few mental math strings were completed by us. Or shall I say, we completed a few mental math strings?

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REVIEW:

STYLE:

We took time to review ALL stylistic techniques using our own personal style. 😊 We then went over #2 and #3 Sentence Openers and VSS, 3SS

STRUCTURE: We went over everyone's paragraph. After that we recapped what summarizing multiple references and fusing was. THEN I took a moment to roll out the 5 Canons of Rhetoric and how that ties in to IEW and Challenge Years. We are using the classical tools to think and communicate. This skill will take us far!!