Schola et Studium

Language Arts – Lesson Series for Second Week

(based on ILL #200-203)

Looking more through ILL, I am seeing that it would be helpful in dealing with CW Aesop. It emphasizes a lot of the same things, but allows for some variety.

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Lesson 1

Choose a poem to be memorized (seasonal, possibly)

• What colors would be used in painting the picture suggested in this poem?
  Describe the picture

• Memorize the poem

• Copy it out from memory.

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Lesson 2

• Write a letter and its reply (characters from a story you have read or made up)

• OR write to one of your penpals.

This is a single activity that could fit in pretty much anywhere as a break from regular activities.

You could use the CW Aesop model story for ideas.

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Lesson 3 Picture Study

(possibly the Angelus or a Giotto; also, currently we have checked out a book called How Artists view Nature that has a variety of paintings contained)

• Discuss what the painting is showing. What was the artist trying to show with the painting?

• What colors are most in evidence

• Look at the light and the shade. Where is the light falling? Where is it coming from? Where is the shade heaviest?

• Notice what is in the foreground. How did the artist show it as the main focus of the painting (what design decisions did he make?)

• Describe the background.

• What mood does the picture have? IE how does it make you feel?

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Lesson 4

This lesson is about compound subjects and predicates.

• This is an easy concept. To prepare for this, make up a few sample sentences possibly based on the poem and model from earlier in the week.

• You could have had the child convert the earlier poem to prose, which is a very Ignatian exercise, and use this paraphrase to invent sentences.

• Have the child identify subject and predicate and the conjunction (joining word).

• Then have him make up a couple of his own sentences to illustrate the concept.

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