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Grammar and Limerick in MFW AHL:

MFW uses an adapted literature guide from SMARR guide. It was written past Robert Watson (who also wrote the poetic version of Gilgamesh that the student reads), and this adaptation is published past MFW. The lit guide is separate from the manual with MFW lesson plans that the pupil uses for all subjects.

The layout of the "Literature and Composition Supplement for Ancient History and Literature" is as follows:

First is a short Introduction and annotation to parent and student. Note to parent says to make sure y'all walk through everything for the argumentative essay with the pupil to make sure she understands. And then she can exercise the actual literature lessons more independently, merely the belligerent paper is *well-nigh* a stand up-solitary lesson before you go to the lit studies.

Lesson ane begins the Argumentative Paper. This is where he (Watson) gives yous step by step instructions for the argumentative essay. There are practice exercises so the educatee understands what he means by "Topic", the "Thesis Argument", and so on. He gives good examples and bad ones. He shows a diagram of the structure of the argumentative paper, explains the Introductory Paragraph, the Topic Paragraphs, supporting sentences, and then on. Oh, and at the end of each of these sections, the student writes that portion of her newspaper... so it's washed incrementally.

And then finally, the Conclusion. At this signal he gives an case of an belligerent paper well washed, request the student to find the thesis statement and other specific parts of the paper.

And then there's a gamble to rewrite the essay at the end of the calendar week, and instructions for typing information technology up (employ i" margins, etc.). And so at that place are instructions for the parent to evaluate the essay and how to grade it.

All of that is done over 5 lessons.

Lesson 6 in the lit guide begins grammer exercises, the parsing of sentences, coordination and subordination, parallelism, and other skills the student needs to write an argumentative essay. This continues through Lesson 34, and so he provides a checklist for the Argumentative Essay. We haven't done any of these lessons yet; I imagine they're scheduled later (by MFW) as she gets to doing more papers.

So you lot take A Student's Companion to The Ballsy of Gilgamesh (by Watson). This is for The Epic of Gilgamesh: A Poetic Version too by Watson, and published by MFW. At the cease of the written report guide for this book is another writing assignment comparing and contrasting Gilgamesh with the Book of Job. Following that assignment is a Glossary for Gilgamesh.

Next is the report guide for Bulfinch, a writing consignment, and Glossary. (Oh, and each lit written report guide consists of vocabulary exercises, recall questions, and critical thinking questions.)

Then you take the aforementioned matter for The Odyssey.

Then comes the Answer Keys for all of the lit study questions, and then terminal comes the Vocabulary Quizzes for each book studied. The very concluding thing is the answers to the Vocab Quizzes.

All of the above are independent in one spiral-bound manual produced past MFW. Again, this is a separate transmission from the one the student works with for MFW lesson plans for history, Bible, and everything else.

Someone was wondering in another word I read asking why MFW doesn't employ Author's INC in AHL. (Because they do utilise Author'southward INC in year 2, Earth History & Lit.) Well, I I don't know the answer to that question, but I did take the opportunity to sit downwards with a re-create of Author's INC and look through it. Their instructions are COMPLETELY different from the ones in this guide from MFW/Robert Watson. Writer'southward INC gives very complicated instructions for a Persuasive Essay, and then information technology breaks down the Persuasive Essay into different *types* of persuasive essays... 1 of which is an Argumentative Essay. The final example of an Argumentative Essay is much longer than the 5-paragraph essay the pupil does here in MFW... and the instructions in Author's INC are more than complicated than the instructions here.

So the instructions (and the assignment) in the MFW/Watson guide are JUST for a v-paragraph argumentative essay and nothing else. No other "types" of persuasive essays... it doesn't get into all that. The focus on the belligerent essay here is specifically for the purpose of studying Gilgamesh alongside the Volume of Job and other Old Testament/Aboriginal literature, and comparing and contrasting what man said vs. what God said (every bit some of the mythology of the period gives varying accounts of biblical events, so the student is learning how to discern the differences in light of the Truth). The student is learning how to make a good argument for the inerrancy of Scripture, as well every bit the biblical account of Creation, the Overflowing, and other major events.

Every bit to grammer specifically, there's a whole section due west/in the Lit Supplement on just grammar, and there are also daily grammar review questions in the Notgrass history spine. (Notgrass past itself is much lighter than MFW.) But if y'all accept a student who's weak in grammar and maybe needs some help all the way through, as is the example with my dd, you lot might need to supplement this subject. My dd'due south doing Easy Grammar Plus, which is pretty low-fundamental, and she's doing very well with all of her writing assignments.

Donna, with two MFW graduates and the "baby" in 11th grade! Using MFW since 2004.

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