Essentials Week 5 (2017-18)

In Class...

EEL

• Board Work--editing a sentence
• New Sentence Purpose--Interrogative
• Played a game of "Guess Who?" or "Twenty Questions" to introduce the concept of questions
• Handed out "CIA" certificates to each student because they were such good interrogators
• Talked about relationship between interrogate, questions, and interrogative
• CIA is acronym for 3 ways to change declarative sentence into interrogative sentence
• C--change end mark; voice inflection is also necessary and can change meaning of sentence
• I--interrogative pronouns; this list can be sung to "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." (Foundations, cycle 2, week 9)
• A--add a helping verb; this list can be sung to "This Old Man" (Foundations Cycle 1, week 13-20)
• different helping verbs can change the meaning of the sentence
• some helping verbs require a different form of the main verb (i.e. a different principal part--chart D)
• Analytical Task Sheet
• Took a simple S-Vi declarative sentence through tasks 1-4
• Then changed the sentence by changing subject to interrogative pronoun and took that sentence through tasks 1-4
• Finally took the same declarative sentence and added a helping verb and took that sentence through tasks 1-4
• Remember you can change a interrogative sentence into a declarative sentence to help see the verb team and such.  It still needs to be diagrammed as an interrogative sentence.
• Remember verb teams go together on the diagram.
• Don't forget about the great explanation of how to do these that is included in Week 3's lesson in the EEL (pages 49/51-61/63)
• Also, remember, all 5 sentences, each, have their own page in the week's lesson that walks you through step by step for the tasks. 

• English Grammar Revolution is a great website for grammar rules and diagramming help!

Fun Way to practice verbs and Chart D!

Math

• Played Battleship with partners
• www.nationalnumberknockout.com

IEW

• Read our favorite descriptive paragraphs at our tables.
• Held up signs for when we heard dress-ups.
• New Dress-up--Because Clause
• Discussed how this is probably something they are already doing in their papers
• Helps one to think more deeply about their writing and add in more detail
• Dependent adverb clause
• Cannot stand on its own, but must still have a subject and verb
• If at beginning of sentence, it needs to be followed by a comma.  
• If at end of sentence, it does not need a comma.
• Marked by yellow highlighter/underline
• TWSS page 173, USHBW page 57, SRP page 103
• New Decoration--Conversation
• TWSS page 184, SRP page 132 & 153
• Punctuation rules on page 153 are what is important when trying to add in conversation 
• Decorations are only required to be 1 per paper (not in every paragraph)
• Banned "said" as a verb
• Continued Story Sequence Chart
• Just discussed the longer passage and not to let it intimidate you or your student.
• Discussed the fun ways to practice Story Sequence Chart--movies, novels, picture books, etc.
• Discussed the fun ways to write from Story Sequence Chart--borrowing a conflict, changing the characters, etc.
• This is what Lesson 8 in the USHBW book covers.   This is not an assigned lesson, but something fun to do if your student is ready.  (maybe over break?)

At Home...

EEL

• page 92-93 (94-95) in EEL
• Continue practicing all charts learned so far (A through F)
• Work on the vocabulary words and definitions at the beginning of each lesson covered so far.
• Analytical Task Sheet
• Try to complete 1 practice sentence each day (honestly, we sometimes only get every other day in, and that is ok!)
• Remember, it is important to ask the same questions in the same order each day to help solidify them in your student's brain.
• 1st year students should only be working on practice sentences 1,2 and maybe 3.  Each week is different, so many times, even the basic ones are harder.  You be the judge for what your student can do!
• Remember the section in Lesson 3 that gives all of the details for the ATS, and remember the steps are laid out for you on each sentence's page.
• Optional--Editing exercises and Spelling List in EEL

• Reed-Kellogg Sentence Diagrammer is another great website for diagramming help!

A bit of classic humor to lighten up the study of questions!

Math

• Practice Number Knockout at home
• Practice and work on speed and accuracy of math facts

IEW

• Lesson 7 from the US History Based Writing book
• Don't forget to do the brainstorming for the dress-ups and decorations that are included with the lesson.  
• If your student isn't ready to put the ones we covered this week in their writing, you can do brainstorming for the dress-ups they are working on, or go ahead and do the ones in the book.  It will simply give them more exposure, even if they don't use it in their writing just yet.
• Remember:  
• You can't help too much!
• Model, let them dictate to you, suggest sentences, or whatever you find works!
• You are the teacher.  Whatever you expect of your student is what I expect!
• EZ+1---They do not need to be doing all of the dress-ups and decorations introduced, unless that is where they are with the EZ+1. 
• This goes for 1st years, as well as 2nd and 3rd years.  Although, I believe most 2nd and 3rd years are farther along.
• The Unit 3 "how-to" on page 31 in the TWSS is great!  Also, the question and answer section for this unit is good.  Its on page 34.
• Checklist is up to you as teacher.  What works for you is fine; just be sure you inspect!
• Checklists can be found in USHBW book at the end of each lesson, on the USHBW blackline masters, attached to the email I sent out last week, or you can even make up your own.
• Feel free to cross anything off or add to any of the ones you choose.
• Optional--Bring a completed paper to turn in and share on Tuesday
• This should be a marked copy with a signed checklist if you want feedback.
• Should also have a clean (and even illustrated) copy for the published student book

Reminders...

• Be sure to read your lessons for next week--Week 6 in EEL Guide, Unit 4 in TWSS, and Lesson 9 in USHBW book.  (We are beginning Unit 4 in TWSS, so it would be good to review that!)  

• Our next Pudewa night is not until the end of October, but make plans to join us on October 26!

My Prayer for you this week...

I always enjoy the "Words of Encouragement" section of our EEL lesson each week!

This week, we are reminded that God knew we needed to be able to ask questions.   Even though He knows all of the answers, we most certainly do not.  Questions are how we learn about the world that He created and even how we learn about Him!  Asking questions is important and will draw us closer to God.  So, "interrogate to your heart's content," and in doing so, may you be drawn closer to the one who has all of the answers!

"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart."  Jeremiah 29:13