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Hi there,
My 9 yr old has completed Seton Eng. 2 and we have just started on Eng.3.
I am just starting to read through The Well Trained Mind, and am wondering if Seton's english is up to the task, so to speak? I am very taken with our faith being woven into the eng. lessons as Seton does, but would like to know what others think. Is it a solid enough grammer programme in your opinion?
I hear so many good things about Rod and Staff, that I wonder if it's worth swapping one or both of my boys.
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I have used 4th, 5th (currently), 6th, 7th, and 8th grade Seton English. I feel to get the complete program, you need to enroll so you have their lesson plans. Much of the diagramming and writing assignments are included in the lesson plans and not in the Seton worktext. I feel Seton offers an extremely rigorous, solid grammar program.
I've never seen Rod and Staff, but from what I've heard it sounds very similar to VIE. Seton still uses VIE, I believe, for 6th or 7th grade, and their workstexts are based on Exercises in English from Loyola Press.
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Thanks Janet,
Can you enroll in just one subject? Or can the lesson plans able to be sold second hand?
We are in Australia, so I'd rather not enroll, even though our dollar is high. I have read somewhere that there is more diagramming in the lesson plans.
If only I was the type of person that didn't make sure the wheel didn't need re-inventing every year (or few months to tell the truth  ).
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You can enroll in one class. I believe the cost is about $75. No, you cannot purchase their lesson plans second hand. We return them to Seton when we are finished.
Yes, most of the diagramming is in the lesson plans. You could always use Rod & Staff, which would be much cheaper than enrolling with Seton, and add to it a diagramming workbook like Mary Daly's (which is Catholic) or Rex Barks. I've never heard that Rod & Staff is anti-Catholic, but it is Anabaptist, I believe, so you wouldn't have the stories about Catholic saints, etc.
We're only 6 weeks into our school year, and I'm already re-inventing the wheel yet again. 
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Thanks Janet,
I had a look and the Mary Daly book. But I have another question. When would you start this type of book? Is it easy for someone to teach who has almost no ideas about grammar, and has never diagrammed a sent. before?
Would you believe that I trained as a high school English teacher and we were not given one grammar lesson at university despite pleading for it, as we hadn't been exposed to any grammer in school either. Go figure.  Grammar is largely ignorned here.
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