That sounds like a great school. I agree, I learned diagraming the way you did. I had to take an essay I wrote and diagram it. I then realized how badly even I wrote! When you can’t figure out how to diagram one of your sentences, its a bad deal.
Yah, this year I have cut back on Shurley, and going back to six trait writing. I still have taught the jingles and up to object of the preposition but thats it. The principal is okay with this, I am just suppose to still teach the jingles because the 8th grade teacher is only using the jingles.
“I don’t like the other books I’ve seen on grammar ... too many games and the “must be fun mentality” doesn’t work for me. Sometimes learning is WORK and they might as well realize that.”
Agreed!!! Stop the laziness!!
Oh, they also use the Four Square method for essay writing. I wish I had that when I learned to do that. My trouble was always how to START the essay and organize my thoughts. This method makes it easy when first learning to do this.
They use this in the lower grades.