• Shurley Grammar 6

    Shurley English 6 for December 13th

    December 9, 2019 /

    Last school week before Christmas!!! Finish Chapter 14, Lessons 2-5.  Make sure you are prepared for a quiz on the list of subordinate conjunctions from Reference 43.  There are 18 subordinate conjunctions listed, you need to be able to name 15 from memory to make a 100. This week’s writing assignment is the last one we will do in the Shurley English 6 book, at least  for a while.  You only need to write one essay.  Please do the assignment for Writing Assignment Box #1, WA #18  on page 259 of the Teacher’s Manual.  

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  • First Form Latin, Year 2

    First Form Latin, Year 2 for December 13th

    December 9, 2019 /

    One last week!!! This week, prepare for a vocabulary review quiz on Lessons XXI -XXV.  This covers all 3rd and 4th declension nouns you have had. There will be no charts, just straight vocabulary.  I will give you the English, and you will give me the Latin in COMPLETE dictionary form. The bonus will be all the Latin sayings from Lessons XXI-XXV.  They are worth 1 point a piece for a total of 5 bonus points.  They must be perfect (spelling and word order) to receive credit. Have a great last week of the 2019 school year!!!

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  • Shurley Grammar 6

    Shurley English 6 for December 6th

    December 2, 2019 /

    Welcome back from Thanksgiving! This week finish Chapter 13, Lessons 2-4.  There is no writing assignment this week.  Use the extra time to polish up on your synonym/antonym pairs. Parents:  When we start back to school in January, we will be switching from Shurley English 6 Composition to Classical Composition.  If your student doesn’t already have Memoria Press’ Classical Composition I, Fable Stage, this would be an excellent time to order it.  Thank you!

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    First Form Latin, Year 2 for November 22nd

    November 17, 2019 /

    This week finish workbook exercises for Lesson XXV.  I will check this for completion on Friday. We found out last Friday that we are a bit rusty on the perfect system verb conjugations, therefore, we will have a quiz on these on Friday.  The quiz will come from the information on page 34 of Lesson XII.  Know the chart.  Also, there will be translations taken directly for Lesson 10 of the Workbook, Drills A, B, & C. A good way to study would be to start with the chart in front of you and work through the drills making sure you understand what the meanings are, i.e. what the action…

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  • First Form Latin, Year 2

    First Form Latin, Year 2 for November 15th

    November 10, 2019 /

    This week we started learning the 4th declension in Lesson XXV.  Begin working on the workbook pages; they are not due until the 22nd.  Your quiz this week will be over the 4th declension chart and the vocabulary, as well as this week’s saying, Senatus Populusque Romanus. Make sure you don’t just say you’ll study, but actually do it – “Acta non verba.” See you Friday!  

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