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Has anyone used the cm organizer
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LIke Sheraz said, you can only print out daily and other reports after the fact. I use the paper materials I originally used to plan my year, etc., to know what is happening during the year.
I keep all this paperwork in my binder and at the end of the year, print out reports to keep them.
The beauty of teh CMO is the flexibility and goes-along-with-life nature of it, if that makes sense.
Oh, that makes more sense. Thanks! So another question pertaining to my 14 yr son. I am not sure about Our mothers tongue, due to the diagramming. Is there something else out there for him that will help with grammar/and writing. He hates to write but i feel he needs to know how to do book reports and composition. He’s had a little grammar and we used IEW two years ago. Any suggestions?
First, one of my older children did well with OMT. One or more if my younger ones will use it. It’s not as difficult as it appears on first glance, especially if you have the answer key. That said, another of my older children did well with Easy Grammar Plus.
Now, for composition, I’m sold on IEW. However, based on your comment, Beyond the Book Report may be something that would be a good fit. Those who’ve used it (I think it’s brand new, so this might not be a possibility,) or plan on using it might comment on it.
For book reports, I’d encourage oral narrations, if he hasn’t been doing them. Then, move into written narrations. This is basically a book report without the analysis. If you’d like analysis, look up term meanings for plot, setting, characterization, etc., and add this into the oral/written narrations. Discussing these orally prior to writing will help cement understanding.
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I would still go with OMT; diagramming is a very useful tool and that alone will help with writng. If there’s over-kill, you don’t have to do every single problem, but I would still encourage you to have him learn diagrammming.
Secondly, if he’s used IEW before, then perhaps go back to that and learn these composition skills.
I second starting him on oral narration. Start with one paragraph at a time and move to greater amounts as the year goes along. Don’t rush this skill, but do expect effort (which will be resisted, as it’s hard). It forms and trains the mind in an amazing way.
Personally, I had issues with having my child do written narrations without some formal teaching of the structure of writing; it was like walking before crawling, IMO. If he needs formal teaching in all the composition style and analysis, then I’d go back to IEW. But just to give you some options to look into and then about about more specifically (to find out if they cover all he needs to know) or look-up past posts anmd reviews at Cathy Duffy:
Jump-In – http://shop.apologia.com/35-jump-in
Write Shop – http://www.writeshop.com/
Writing Strands – http://www.writing-strands.com/
Skills for Rhetoric: https://www.forsuchatimeasthis.com/language-arts/junior-high/skills-for-literary-analysis
Write With the Best Vol. 1 and 2 – http://www.edudps.com/
First, I would recommend finding out, for sure, what he needs over the next four years and then going backwards from there to determine what to use in what year. That’s what Sonya’s planning series does. It gives you a big picture layout so you can see where you’re going; not just what your doing this year. Being that he’s 14 and in 9th, I would definitely look at this year as part of four and not just as an isolated year like one can do in the younger years.
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