Monday, April 14, 2008

LA plans K-12

I thought I had grammar for next year all planned out, Daily Grams and Classical Writing. But guess what I did, I started looking at other grammar curricula and now I’ll never be happy with Daily Grams. I’m in love with Primary Language Lessons and Intermediate Language Lessons, they are wonderful. Oh, they are lovely, but who am I going to use them for?
DD7 (3rd grade): She is the perfect candidate for PLL, copywork, memorywork and dictation loving she is kind of a CM girl in all areas of the curriculum. My only worry is that I wanted to start CW Aesop A with her but since she’s never done formal grammar or writing before this may be overkill. I really want to do PLL and CW but maybe if I held off on CW until January then it wouldn’t be so much at once. Or do I really need to drop one of them? Also, should we start at the beginning of the book or in the middle?
DS10 (6th grade) and DD9 (5th grade) will both be doing CW Homer B, I think they could both do ILL but again I’m not sure where to start.
DD12 will be in 8th grade and is very strong in LA so I think she’s beyond ILL. She is doing CW Diogenes Chreia, is that enough? Is there a PLL/ILL like book for older kids? Is there something else she should use?
DD 6and DS6 will be in 1st grade and I wasn’t planning on starting formal grammar with them until 3rd but now I’m thinking about them doing PLL. Should I have them do it or should I stick to my original plan?

TIA!!


Above is what I posted on the WTM boards. I was going crazy trying to decide what to use for grammar and now (thanks Jessica!) I’ve got it all sorted out. I still need to decide on other things but here are our plans so far:


Below Average Average Above Average

K: ETC A & B ETC 1 and 2 ETC at appropriate level Reading Reading Reading
Read alouds Read alouds Read alouds
HWT K HWT K HWT K
Informal French Informal French
Poetry memorization

1st: ETC C and 1 ETC 3 and 4 ETC at appropriate level Reading Reading Reading
Read alouds Read alouds Read alouds
HWT 1 HWT 1 HWT 1
Informal French Informal French Informal French
Poetry memorization Poetry memorization Poetry memorization
Copywork across the curric. Copywork across the curric. Copywork across the curric.
Narration LLVY PLL
Narration Narration

2nd: ETC 2and 3 ETC 5 and 6 ETC at appropriate level
Reading Reading Reading
Read Alouds Read alouds Read alouds
HWT 2 HWT 3 HWT 3
Informal French Informal French Informal French
Poetry memorization Poetry memorization Poetry memorization
Copy work across the curric. Copywork across the curric. Copywork across the curric.
LLVY PLL PLL
Narration Narration LFC A
Narration
CW Aesop A

3rd: ETC 4 and 5 ETC 7 and 8 Reading
Reading Reading Read alouds
Read alouds Read alouds Informal French
HWT 3 Informal French Poetry memorization
Informal French Poetry memorization Copywork across the curric.
Poetry memorization Copywork across the curric. PLL
Copywork across the curric. PLL LFC B
PLL LFC A CW Aesop B
Narration CW Aesop A Spelling
Narration Narration

4th: ETC 6 and 7 Reading Reading
Reading Read alouds Read alouds
Read alouds Informal French Informal French
Informal French Poetry memorization Poetry memorization
Poetry memorization Copywork across the curric. Copywork across the curric.
Copywork across the curric. PLL ILL
PLL LFC B LFC C
LFC A CW Aesop B CW Homer A
CW Aesop A Spelling Spelling
Narration Narration Narration

5th: ETC 8 Reading Reading
Reading Read alouds Read alouds
Read alouds Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Informal French Poetry and other memorizationPoetry and other memorization
Poetry memorization Copywork across the curric. Copywork across the curric.
Copywork across the curric. ILL ILL
PLL LFC C Oxford Latin Course 2
LFC B CW Homer A CW Homer B
CW Aesop B Spelling Spelling
Spelling Literature with history LL 7
Narration Narration Narration
Outlining Outlining

6th: Reading Reading Reading
Read alouds Read alouds Read alouds
Formal French with ? Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
Copywork across the curriculum Copywork across the curric. Copywork across the curric.
ILL ILL ILL
LFC C Oxford Latin Course 2 Oxford Latin Course 3
CW Homer A CW Homer B CW Diogenes Maxim
Spelling Spelling Spelling
Literature through history Literature through history LL 8
Narration Narration Narration
Outlining Outlining Outlining

7th: Reading Reading Reading
Read alouds Read alouds Read alouds
Formal French with ? Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
Narration Narration Narration
ILL ILL Analytical Grammar
Oxford Latin Course 2 Oxford Latin Course 3 Latin with ?
CW Homer B CW Diogenes Maxim CW Diogenes:Chreia
Literature through history LL 7 LL American literature
Outlining Outlining Outlining

8th: Reading Reading Reading
Read alouds Read alouds Read alouds
Formal French with ? Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
Narration Narration Narration
ILL Analytical Grammar Analytical Grammar
Oxford Latin Course 3 Latin with ? Latin with ?
CW Diogenes Maxim CW Diogenes Chreia CW Herodotus
LL 7 LL8 LL British literature
Outlining Outlining Outlining
Other language
Rhetoric with ?

9th: Reading Reading Reading
Formal French with ? Formal French ? Formal French ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
Analytical Grammar Analytical Grammar AG High School Reinforcement Shakespeare
Latin with ? Latin with ? Latin with ?
CW Diogenes Chreia CW Herodotus CW Plutarch
LL 8 LL American Literature LL Shakespeare
Outlining Outlining Outlining
Other language Other language
Rhetoric with ? Rhetoric with ?

10th: Reading Reading Reading
Formal French with ? Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
Analytical Grammar AG HSR British Lit. AG HSR World Lit.
Latin with ? Latin with ? Latin with ?
CW Herodotus CW Plutarch CW Demosthenes
LL American Lit. LL British Lit. LL World Lit.
Rhetoric with ? Other language Other language
Rhetoric with ? Rhetoric with ?

11th:Reading Reading Reading
Formal French with ? Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
AG HSR British Lit. AG HSR Shakespeare AG HSR American lit.
Latin with ? Latin with ? Latin with ?
CW Plutarch CW Demosthenes CW Demosthenes
LL British lit. LL Shakespeare LL
Rhetoric with ? Rhetoric with ? Rhetoric with ?
Other language Other language

12th:Reading Reading Reading
Formal French with ? Formal French with ? Formal French with ?
Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization Poetry and other memorization
AG HSR World lit. AG HSR World lit. AG HSR Shakespeare
Latin with ? Latin ? Latin with ?
CW Demosthenes CW Demosthenes Writing with ?
LL World Lit. LL World lit LL
Rhetoric with ? Rhetoric with ? Rhetoric with ?
Other language Other language


The “Below Average”, “Average” and “Above Average” columns are guide lines but I’ll pick and choose from each category depending on strengths and weaknesses.
I need to look into curriculum for:
Latin after Oxford
French in 5th – 12th
Rhetoric

At some point I also need to find something for writing after CW, but now I have other priorities.

UGH! Blogger doesn't like my formating. :(
I'll have to try to sort this out or format it differently.

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