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Posted: Sept 07 2012 at 8:09pm | IP Logged Quote pumpkinmom
I would like to change our grammar to be more CM like. We will continue with our workbooks this year, but I'm ready to tackle something different in the future. What would you use/do for a 4th grade and 7th grade boy for grammar.

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Posted: Sept 07 2012 at 9:57pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
What I am doing with a 4th-grade boy right now (and could be done with a 7th-grade boy) is twofold:

1. Copywork: the perfect holistic language-arts program

2. Working with Mary Daly's First Whole Book of Diagrams, which has a handy teacher's manual in the back. She offers a diagramming workbook as well, but we aren't using it, just notebooks. We're working on building sentences from the ground up, starting with two-word sentences (noun, verb), and diagramming them. Next we'll add articles, then adjectives, and so on, gradually making things more and more complex.

Now, some people think diagramming is the kiss of death, but I happen to think it's kind of fun, and I can see the appeal for boys, who often take a "Way Things Work" approach to everything. In fact, for our copywork/poem of the week this week we had a little poem by William Carlos Williams, who once said that a poem is "a large or small machine made of words." Now, if a poem is that, then a sentence certainly is. It's a machine with few or many parts, and it's useful to know how to take one apart and hopefully put it together again.

I'm using this with a girl (grade 3), as well as my grade 4 boy, but I can see its being a particularly "boy" kind of approach to grammar study. We do it two days a week (Tuesday and Wednesday), and the rest of the week we do copywork.

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Here are some links I have found very helpful when planning out our CM language arts program.

SCM 'A Charlotte Mason Approach to English Grammar" (Note, this is part nine in a the series 'Language Arts in the Charlotte Mason Method'. The whole series is very helpful.)

Jen/Mackfam's blog post Considering- Charlotte Mason and Our Approach to Language Arts.

Ambleside Online's FAQ on Language Arts

Hope those help.

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Posted: Sept 13 2012 at 9:49pm | IP Logged Quote SallyT
A little PS on the diagramming thing: my 10-year-old took his notebook to bed with him last night, so that he could make up and diagram some sentences on his own, because he'd had so much fun doing it that morning (subject/verb sentences with an article and an adjective -- nothing fancy).

Your mileage may vary, but so far this has captured his boy imagination far beyond what I had ever expected.

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