MCT LEVEL 3 Complete Homeschool Package - Package by Royal Fireworks Press

Grammar Voyage builds on the foundations established in Grammar Island and Grammar Town, with increasingly sophisticated concepts and examples. Illustrated with all kinds of ships.

Grammar Voyage Sample Pages pdf file

Caesar's English II: the latest edition has many wonderful photographs to enhance the understanding of Ancient Rome. It has, besides all the elements in the first volume, a heavier emphasis on the relationship between English and Spanish.

Each of the twenty lessons also includes five new stems and five review stems from volume I. Students are challenged to fill in the blank in a sentence by a famous author using stem words. Each lesson has a grammar example of the use of one stem word.

Caesar's English II Sample Pages pdf file

The teacher manuals include tips for the student pages, pre and post tests, activities for specific topics, and wonderful original readings to keep the energy level charged with fun learning.

This volume is built on comparisons of poetic and scientific observations of nature and the world around us.

Among featured topics are:

Sound: alliteration, assonance, consonance, end-stopped enjambed.

Rhyme: end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye-rhyme, near rhyme.

Meter: the foot, iamb, trochee, dactyl, spondee, amphibrach, amphimacer, pyrrhic.

Stanza: Shakespearan sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet, ballad, rime royal, limerick, haiku.

Figures of speech: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe.

The grammar of poetry

Poetic genius, originality

Poets quoted include: T S Eliot, Walt Whitman, Christina Rosetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, A E Houseman, Percy Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Anne Sexton, Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allen Poe, W B Yeats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, Emma Lazarus, Sylvia Plath, Basho Matsuo.

Sample pages (pdf files): page 6 | page 56| page 137

sample pages (pdf files): page 8 | page 9 | page 26 | page 163

Practice Voyage is primarily a low-cost, consumable, workbook supplement to Grammar Voyage and the not yet published: Essay Voyage. It uses vocabulary from Caesar's English II and poetics from World of Poetry; students work through the sentences using Thompson's unique four-level analysis and thereby reinforce their grammar and writing skills.

Each of the hundred sentences has a separate page with four blank lines to fill in the parts of speech, the parts of sentence, phrases and clauses. By the end of the workbook, by examining a wide set of sentences, students experience the success and satisfaction of a clear understanding of the principles of writing good English sentences.

The practice books have class set prices depending upon the quantity ordered; schools and school districts can combine orders of the practice books for maximum discount:

25 books: $9.00
50 books: $8.00
100 books: $7.00
250 books: $6.50
500 books: $6.00
750 books: $5.50
1,000 books: $5.00

Any mix of practice books can be ordered. Please note that in most cases, the shopping cart will not show the actual discount; this will be applied when you are billed, and no matter what the shopping cart says, you will never be billed or charged at a higher rate than that to which you are entitled.

The Teacher Manual gives an introduction to the course and advice on implementation, correct analysis and extensive comments for each sentence.

Sample pages:  Sentence 80 page 91 / Page 112

In what will be an indispensable book for English teachers and all teachers of gifted children, Essay Voyage explicates the elements of the correct, formal essay—the essay expected for essay exams, research papers, critical responses, and other formal analyses of academic subjects. With the use of extensive examples and thorough explanation, we see that formal writing involves the correct use of words, sentences, paragraphs, punctuation and other elements such as organized structure and unity.

The book has a journeying theme that takes us around the world. Each chapter is followed by exercises, challenging questions, examples of good essays and a discussion of the correct use of words taken from Caesar’s English Volume 2.

Ideally it should be used in conjunction with Grammar Voyage, Caesar’s English Volume 2 and A World of Poetry.