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Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Level Purple is included in the 8th-grade Timberdoodle curriculum kit. My son is gifted in grammar, so we need to provide a rigorous grammar curriculum for him. We are eclectic homeschoolers and I have been looking for a supplement for our upcoming school year. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Level Purple is a 36-week program, there is no hurry to complete a level in one school year. We could possibly do two levels in middle school and the remaining levels in high school.

Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Level Purple starts off really basic with nouns and adjectives and provides a hefty amount of practice during the lesson. Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind Level Purple is a mastery program and I am finding that with my son moving into middle school he needs more of a mastery curriculum so he is prepared for high school and college entrance examinations. Students will master all the grammar and writing skills they will need to be successful in writing and speaking.

One-semester course. Grammar I is a foundational English grammar course for students who do not have a solid grasp of basic grammar. This course covers parts of speech and their uses, mechanics, verb tenses, and fundamental skills in diagramming. Click here for an explanation of our writing and grammar curriculum, and sample course sequences.

This is mostly just a curiously question (remind me to never listen to podcasts for products/programs I dont use!). We have done the first half of Grammar for the Well Trained Mind purple book and will be doing the first half of the red book for this year. I like SWB's thoughts on diagramming and writing in general. We also use WWS.

My question is this: is Fix It Grammar the opposite in practice and philosophy to Grammar for the WTM? Applied vs analytical? How does that play out in real life? The majority of my grammar knowledge is applied, and until I started teaching grammar with G for WTM and Killgallon, I did not understand why I did what I did in writing. I knew where commas went, but not why, I knew when to use "whom" vs "who" but didn't have the language to say why, etc.

I could have written your exact post. We are at lesson 50 and we just switched to Killgallon for a break and to review good writing strategies. I have no idea what the answer is. I just know that my kids are super sciency and the type of grammar instruction that is really helpful to their needs is the Killgallon approach. I have really appreciated how much sentence diagramming has benefitted my son and me for helping us see how it all hooks together. So when we go over Killgallon, I can talk through how the sentence would be generally diagrammed.

That being said, I genuinely dont understand the need to know all the nitty-gritty of grammar. I have never once needed to know what a modal verb is or how to diagram it. Some of this knowledge seems so esoteric to me. Whereas with Killgallon, I am finally understanding why commas go in certain places. I have intuited these rules, and now I know them (my other kids has been doing Killgallon since Sept). I have found it enormously helpful to know the different types of clauses and phrases, because those can be put to use to improve writing. That, combined with WTM grammar up to lesson 50 at least, has helped us have a better grasp of what is going on.

The Recommendations file you posted was not available (?) when we did GWTM. We spent almost two years finishing one book. That said, my oldest was in 6th when we started. When we restarted in the red book, it reminded us of how "easy" those first lessons were.

For book 2, I started with both kids and then since my oldest is in a writing class that includes grammar, I allowed him to stop, but kept going with my youngest (7th grade currently). We aren't even halfway yet.

ETA: I could also have made some similar comments to annegables. There was a section on hortative verbs. I was confused so I tried Google. There was nothing except something about translating from a foreign language. Then I asked my friends that I consider knowledgeable in grammar. None of them knew. In the end, we kept going despite the fact I didn't understand it fully. Most of them considered the study of the "mood" of a verb to be very advanced (e.g. college) language study. That said, some of that does come up in foreign language (for example, the imperative in Latin).

I can see starting a new school year with a new book. But I wonder if instead of redoing it all right away, if moving back and forth between GWTM and something like Killgallon would be more beneficial. I love that with Killgallon I can see the point to learning grammar.

Resurrecting this thread to talk about the upcoming year. We still did not finish the purple books last year. We stopped after Lesson 111. I decided DS (going into 10th this year) will be done with grammar, and this will be the last year for DD. She is angry that she still has to do it when she had about a year of FLL before DS started to homeschool, so in the end he will have done 2 fewer years of grammar than she. But something clicked for DS this year and everything we covered was suddenly very simple/easy for him--including modal verbs, hortative verbs, etc. that were new to all of us--and it wasn't for her. I think it's a mental development thing, more than "how many years have you studied grammar?"

Like many other posters here, I find the end content to be rather unnecessary/overkill, so I still don't plan to get all the way to Week 32 and the final Review. We'll pause every few lessons to do some relevant lessons from Killgallon's middle school grammar book.

Here's a link to my original plan for last year--including my notes about what we had to divide, and where we inserted review exercises. (Lesson 112-end do not have dividing info, because we never got there.) Although the schedule says "Day 5," in practice we never actually did grammar 5-days-a-week, just 4.

Understanding the inter-relationship between language and thought is fundamental to the study of human cognition [1] [2] [3]. Some investigators have proposed that propositions in natural language serve to scaffold thinking, by providing, for example, a sequential structure to a massively parallel process [4]. Others have maintained that certain thoughts, such as inferring the mental states of others, termed 'theory of mind' (ToM) reasoning, and identifying causal relationships, necessarily involve language propositions [5]. It has been proposed that ToM reasoning depends upon the possession of syntactic structures such as those that permit the embedding of false propositions within true statements ('Mary knows that John (falsely) thinks chocolates are in the cupboard') [6]. The performance on reasoning tasks of individuals with severe agrammatic aphasia (an impairment of language following a lesion of the perisylvian areas of the language-dominant hemisphere) offers novel insights into the relation between grammar and cognition. We report the unusual case of a patient with agrammatic aphasia of such severity that language propositions were not apparently available at an explicit processing level in any modality of language use. Despite this profound impairment in grammar, he displayed simple causal reasoning and ToM understanding. Thus, reasoning about causes and beliefs involve processes that are independent of propositional language.

Mental grammar is what the speaker of a language knows, often implicitly, about the grammar of that language. This has also been called linguistic competence or competence grammar. All these terms describe the complex system which allows a speaker to produce language that other speakers can understand. It includes sounds, vocabulary, the order of words in sentences, and even the appropriateness of a topic or a word in a particular social situation. Most of us carry this knowledge around in our heads and use it without much reflection. One way to clarify mental or competence grammar is to ask a friend a question about a sentence. They may not know why something is correct, but they will know if it is correct. One of the features of this type of grammar is this incredible sense of "correctness," and the ability to "hear" when something "sounds odd" in a language.

The second type of grammar is descriptive grammar: a description of what speakers know intuitively about a language. Linguists try to discover the underlying rules of mental or competence grammar and describe them objectively. So, descriptive grammar is a model of competence grammar and as such is based on the best efforts of a linguist (and subject to criticism from other linguists). No matter how skilled a linguist is, describing grammar is an enormous task. In the first place, the knowledge is incredibly vast and complex. Secondly, the language itself is changing even while it's being described. Finally, the same data can be categorized in different but equally correct ways in order to arrive at generalizations. The ultimate goal of descriptive grammar is to form generalizations about a language that accurately reflect the rules that speakers have in their heads.

Getting back to what most people think of as grammar - the rules we learn aren't meant to describe language at all. They're meant to prescribe and judge language as "good" or "bad." This kind of grammar - the third type - is called prescriptive grammar, because of its judgmental perspective. The contrast to descriptive grammar is marked. Descriptive grammar ultimately accepts the language that a speaker uses in an effort to describe it, recognizes that there may be several dialects that are used by different speakers, and understands that any one speaker may choose different styles for different situations. Meanwhile, prescriptive rules are rigid and subject to enforcement. Prescriptive grammar seeks to make all speakers conform to one standard in all situations. That tends to be a very formal level of language all the time. e24fc04721