Showing posts with label Grade 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grade 2. Show all posts

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Classical Education Reading List: Medieval/Early Renaissance

2nd Graders should be studying Medieval/Early Renaissance times (400 - 1600). Stories should be read chronologically in order listed below. Read stories and poems by, about, or from the following:

Saint Augustine
Beowulf

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight:
~Sir Gawain and the Loathly Lady by Hastings

Canterbury Tales:
~Chaucer the Cat and the Animal Pilgrims by Borlenghi
~The Canterbury Tales by McCaughrean
~The Fairie Queene by Edmund Spenser

William Shakespeare (all the plays):
~The Shakespeare Can Be Fun series by Burdett
~William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream by Coville
~William Shakespeare's Macbeth by Coville
~William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Coville and Nolan
~Shakespeare Stories by Garfield
~Shakespeare Stories II by Garfield
~ Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb

The Inferno by Dante

King Arthur:
~Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Malory (look for retellings of the Arthur legend; most are based on Malory
~Knights of the Round Table by Gross
~The Kitchen Knight: A Tale of King Arthur by Hodges

Erasmus
Martin Luthur
John Calvin
Sir Thomas Wyatt (sometimes shows up in stories about Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn)
John Knox
Rene Descartes

Friday, May 15, 2009

Grammar Grades 1, 2

Topics Covered in Level 1

  • Common nouns (persons, places, things, and ideas)
  • Proper nouns
    • First names
    • Family names
    • Middle names
    • Cities and states
    • Days of week
    • Months of the year
    • Holidays
  • Personal pronouns
  • Action Verbs
  • Seasons
  • Initials
  • Addresses
  • Titles of Respect
  • Dates
  • Sentences
    • Statements
    • Commands
    • Questions
    • Exclamations
  • Capitalization
    • The pronoun ??/li>
    • Proper nouns
    • Titles of works
    • In poetry
  • 6 Poem Memorizations
  • 8 Story Narrations
  • 4 Picture Narrations

Topics Covered in Level 2

Common and proper noun review
  • Pronoun review
  • Action verb review
  • Four types of sentences review
  • State of being verbs
  • Linking verbs
  • Helping verbs
  • Commas in a series
  • Contractions
  • Adjectives
  • Predicate adjectives
  • Interjections
  • Conjunctions
  • Direct quotations
  • Indirect Quotations
  • Adverbs
  • Articles
  • Prepositions
  • Synonyms
  • Antonyms
  • Letter-writing skills
    • Writing thank-you notes
    • Writing postcards
    • Writing a friendly letter
    • Addressing an envelope
  • 4 Poem Memorizations
  • 7 Story Narrations
  • 5 Picture Narrations
  • First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind, Levels 1 + 2 – Paperback

    by Jessie Wise

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