Classical Conversations – Week 2 – Lesson Plan

Week 2

REVIEW – Week 1 Essentials Grammar

Scale UP or DOWN

EEL tips

• Goal to memorize charts by 3^rdyear! (ORAL or WRITTEN)
• Fast for us to recite charts ORALLY
• More independent to have student COPY chart

30 min/day on ONE chart & 1 Sentence will produce results!!  Trust the process and that we have 3 years to master the material.

 EEL (45 minutes) 1pm-1:45pm

REVIEW Chart A  (15minutes)

• Quiz
• Student vs parent
• 3^rdyear against 3^rdyear

Week 2

Structure: Overview

Purpose: Overview

Pattern: Overview

Part of Speech: Verb Overview

Chart: C,D

EEL Task: None

Chart A: 8 parts of speech (categories for classifying words). Noun, pronoun, verb, adverb, conjunction, interjection, preposition, and adjective.

Definition of a VERB???????

• Verb – word that asserts an action, shows a state of being, links two words together, or helps another verb.

Look at big picture today!!!

• Fill in details later
• Parts of speech (8) today looking at most important = VERBS

Sentence classification = backbone of EEL

&

Verbs = Heart of English grammar

            =Give LIFE to any sentence

            =Sentence doesn’t exist w/out a verb

CHART C – 4 types of verbs

• Quiz students on answers
• Point out the tests to use when determining verb type

1. Intransitive
2. Transitive
3. Linking
4. Helping

Fill in Chart C in class VERBALLY

Chart D – 5 Principle Parts (forms) of a Verb

            Fill in Chart D

Look at Chart K on your own to explore more verb anatomy

IEW 45minutes (1:45pm-2:30pm)

IEW tips

Day 2

• Finish KWO
• Brainstorm activities (new style techniques)
• Review what we did in class
• Review all vocabulary words

Day 2

• Start First Draft
• Brainstorm HOW to add STYLE
• Study New Vocabulary

Day 3

• Finish Rough draft
• Add stylist techniques
• Edit draft
• Review New Vocabulary

Day 4

• Final Draft
• Edit Final Draft
• Review Vocabulary

Review – Student’s read one sentence from their paper.  Favorite sentence and we will guess the dress-up used.

         -ly adverb practice

1. The slug moved ___________________ along the sidewalk

2. The train ____________________ stopped.

3. She sang ________________.

4. The music played so ______________ , I could barely hear.

5. The dog ran ________________.

6. The food was _____________ made.

Present New Source Text for Week 2

Discuss

• Read & Discuss the paragraph
• Read 2x if necessary
• Ask students question about the source text

Key Word Outline (KWO)

• Create Outline
• Circle 3 keywords (numbers, symbols, abreviations = Free)
• Copy keywords to outline

Oral Report

• Give an oral report- one student per sentence
• Read keywords, look-up, speak the sentence.

Dress It Up

• -ly Adverb
• who/which
• 5 senses
• Clincher for Title

5 senses examples (SRP pg 111)

• Words that see, hear, feel, taste & smell

Who/Which

• Combine two thoughts
• Who=person
• Which=place, thing, or idea (animals)

Title Rule

• draws attention, be creative, use 2 or 3 keywords from the final sentence