Harvey's Elementary Grammar and Composition · Lesson 99 · Part 2: Part II: The parts of speech in full
74. Composition: Sugar
Goal: Your child reads a description several times and writes it from memory.
You'll need
- The book, open to this lesson
- Paper and a pencil (or a slate)
What's in the book
Lesson 99 is a reading on sugar, how it is obtained from plants and refined, to read and reproduce.
The lesson, step by step
Review
Ask: What are the eight steps for parsing a verb?
Read it
The book says:
Read the following description a number of times, then reproduce it from memory:
Read "Sugar" aloud, then let your child read it twice.
Outline
Close the book. List the main points in order together: where sugar comes from, how it is made, how it is refined.
Write
Your child writes the description from the outline in their own words.
Compare
Open the book and compare. Did they keep the order? What was left out?
Use it today
Look at a sugar package. Does it say what plant it came from?
Answers to the book's problems
Retellings will vary.
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