Aesop and Homer for Older Beginners

[Carolyn]

All errata related to Older Beginners Workbook or Instructor's Guide can be found here.

[Lene Mahler Jaqua]

On page 19 of the Student Workbook, the student is directed to add the 9 parts of speech found in the Aesop Core to his grammar notebook. Aesop only contains 8 parts of speech. The remaining one, the participle, is covered in Homer.

It is defined as "a word derived from a verb, having the properties of both a verb and an adjective or of a noun."

Carolyn

[lilangelshs]

Day 4 of Preparation Week says to do 4.2 - 6 in the Grammar and then Week 1 says to do 5 - 6. We're reading that right? So we've already done this weeks Grammar? Thanks - Barbara

[greengables]

Hi Barbara, the assignment for Preparation week is to do 4.2 - 4.6. I can see that your confusion comes from the way we noted this in the Prep week. However, if you've already done 5 & 6, you are ahead of the game! I will make a note to clarify this in future editions. Thanks!

Kathy

[lilangelshs]

Ohhhhh..... I get it. Thanks!

[Jean B]

While correcting the classifications and diagrams for Lesson 3 on page 41 of the workbook, I noted that in the sentence "The bell will signal us." my dd had classified "us" as a direct object. The answer key classifies this as an indirect object, and I'd like to know why so that I can explain it to her.

Thank you!

[Carolyn]

Jean,

You have stumbled on a very knotty point of English grammar. And because it is so knotty, we've removed it from Homer A, and will remove it from the Older Beginners books later. The easiest thing to do would be to quietly skip over the matter for now with your daughter.

But, should you not want to do that, let me point you to some posts which discuss this very sentence.
lene.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=homer&thread=722&page=1
lene.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=homer&thread=765&page=1

Carolyn

[Meliss]

Mar 23, 2009 13:36:56 GMT -5 greengables said:

Hi Barbara, the assignment for Preparation week is to do 4.2 - 4.6. I can see that your confusion comes from the way we noted this in the Prep week. However, if you've already done 5 & 6, you are ahead of the game! I will make a note to clarify this in future editions. Thanks!

Kathy

I made the same mistake as Barbara. However the above explanation still does not make sense to me. I don't see "4.2 - 4.6." Harvey's has 4. Sentence Making, then subheading I with numbers 1 and 2, then subheading II with numbers 3 and 4. What am I missing?

[Carolyn]

Meliss,

You're utterly right. The assignment in the prep week should be 4.2, period. We'll get that updated.

[Meliss]

Thank you!