Sequel to Lingua Mater 7, this book can be used in 8th or 9th grade. It is set up in the same style as Lingua Mater 7 with one piece of literature or painting and one grammar concept studied each week. All the literature and paintings are by American authors.
Unit 1 - Review 3 modes of writing: narrative, expository, and persuasive
Review grammar in Lingua Mater 7, work on verbal phrases
Unit 2 - Tall Tales and Research Paper writing
Figurative language, sentence combining, verb mood, tense, and voice
Introduction to parsing
Unit 3 - Expository Style
Common English grammar usage errors
Intensive parsing practice
Unit 4 - American Short Story study (elements of fiction)
All short stories are reproduced within the book
Parsing practice
We also aren't quite done proofing it, so you may find errors. We hope they will be few! We are making it available even though it may not be perfect yet because so many people have asked for it for this fall. We did our best to get it done!
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