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Posted: Aug 19 2008 at 9:23pm | IP Logged Quote domchurch3
If I'm going to pull a passage from a book we are currently reading, do I need to pull a passage that teaches a moral lesson or a passage that years from now, she would be able to say, "Oh that's from Stuart Little". Or can it be just a random passage that teaches certain mechanics?

I like the idea of just pulling from whatever we are reading but I find myself looking for the "perfect" passage.

I hope this makes sense.
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Posted: Aug 19 2008 at 10:19pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
I've never really thought about it that much. I've pulled copywork from all kinds of sources, used those Memoria Press Copybooks, done copywork in the Draw and Write Through History books (where we were just copying a paragraph about Cheops, or something), or poems, or hymns. I guess when I've been choosing a piece of copywork, instead of having it chosen for me by a book, I've always just gone for something that was beautiful to read and say aloud, or funny, or just in some way a pleasure to write down -- I thought. The copyperson didn't always agree with me.

I've also counted things like writing down recipes as copywork. I'm not so sure, in the end, that it matters WHAT you choose, as long as the grammar and spelling are correct and it's a reasonably good specimen of written English. In copying they're just practicing the mechanics of writing, plus internalizing correct spelling and the "sound" of written English. So anything that gives them that is a pretty good choice, in my book.

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We do a lot of copywork from the Bible.

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