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MCT LEVEL 5 Basic Homeschool Package
- Order code:
- HO7B
- Price:
- $145.00
- Online Price:
- $130.00
In this package:
Word Within The Word, Vol 2: Student Manual
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- Subjects:
- English Language Arts; Vocabulary
- Grade:
- 7, 8, 9, 10
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-692-8
- Order code:
- 6928
- Price:
- $30.00
- Online Price:
- $20.00
- Class sets:
- 25 or more: $18.00 each. (Order code: 6928S)
Volume Two, extensively refined and improved in 2007 includes:
- a better (visual) way of indicating whether a stem is Greek or Latin
- flip-side questions on every weekly test
- word-creation exercises in every list
- explanations of the interaction of different kinds of thinking processes
- an exciting range of creative and imaginative activities
- extensive references to the language of classic literature
- guides to pronunciation
- Spanish word lists
- lots more fun ways to look at words and language but still in a rigorous curriculum context
Volume Two develops what was begun in Volume One. See above, and at the top of the page for details of the series.
Volume Two, extensively refined and improved in 2007, includes:
- a better (visual) way of indicating whether a stem is Greek or Latin
- flip-side questions on every weekly test
- word-creation exercises in every list
- explanations of the interaction of different kinds of thinking processes
- an exciting range of creative and imaginative activities
- extensive references to the language of classic literature
- guides to pronunciation
- Spanish word lists
- lots more fun ways to look at words and language but still in a rigorous curriculum context
Volume Two develops what was begun in Volume One. See above, and at the top of the page for details of the series.
Lesson 40:
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Magic Lens, Vol 2: Student Manual
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- Subjects:
- English Language Arts; Grammar
- Grade:
- 7, 8, 9, 10
- ISBN:
- 978-0-8802-2111
- Order code:
- 2117
- Price:
- $30.00
- Online Price:
- $20.00
- Class sets:
- 25 or more: $18.00 each. (Order code: 2117S)
Magic Lens2, Loop 2:
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Poetry, Plato and the Problem of Beauty. Teacher Manual
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-665-2
- Order code:
- 6651
- Price:
- $35.00
- Online Price:
- $25.00
Poetry and Beauty sample pages:
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Word Within The Word. Vol 2. HOME SCHOOL PARENT ANSWER MANUAL
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- Grade:
- 7, 8, 9, 10
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-558-7
- Order code:
- 5587
- Price:
- $20.00
- Online Price:
- $10.00
This book supplements the Student Manual. It does not replace it.
Word 2 Parent book sample pages 1-18:
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4Practice Vol 2: Student Workbook
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- Subjects:
- English Language Arts; Vocabulary; Grammar
- Age:
- 12, 13, 14
- Grade:
- 7, 8
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-688-1
- Order code:
- 6881
- Price:
- $15.00
- Online Price:
- $10.00
- Class sets:
- 25 or more: $9.00 each. (Order code: 6881S)
The sentences in Volume 2 of the Practice Workbooks series are taken from works of classic literature, giving illuminating insights into how great writers achieve meaning, beauty and depth in their writing.
This book is a vital supplement to the grammar course, Magic Lens 2. It uses vocabulary taken directly from Word within the Word 2 and refers to poetic devices in Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Beauty.
The authors whose sentences are used in 4Practice 2 include: William Shakespeare and John Milton to Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Upton Sinclair, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Toni Morrison, Marjorie Kennan Rawlings, Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Frederick Douglass, Charles Dickens, Alan Paton, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Joseph Heller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bram Stoker, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, , Rachel Carson, James Hilton, Maya Angelou, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Eudora Welty.
View: 4Practice Vol 2 front and back cover (0.5MB PDF)
The Teacher Manual is essential, to give the answers.
The sentences in Volume 2 of the Practice Workbooks series are taken from works of classic literature, giving illuminating insights into how great writers achieve meaning, beauty and depth in their writing.
This book is a vital supplement to the grammar course, Magic Lens 2. It uses vocabulary taken directly from Word within the Word 2 and refers to poetic devices in Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Beauty.
The authors whose sentences are used in 4Practice 2 include: William Shakespeare and John Milton to Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Upton Sinclair, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Toni Morrison, Marjorie Kennan Rawlings, Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Frederick Douglass, Charles Dickens, Alan Paton, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Joseph Heller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bram Stoker, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, , Rachel Carson, James Hilton, Maya Angelou, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Eudora Welty.
View: 4Practice Vol 2 front and back cover (0.5MB PDF)
There is a Teacher Manual (see below) and the student workbooks can be purchased at a class set price 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
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.
4Practice Vol 2: Teacher Manual
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-689-8
- Order code:
- 6898
- Price:
- $15.00
- Online Price:
- $10.00
Magic Lens Vol 2, HOME SCHOOL Parent Answer Manual
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- Subjects:
- English Language Arts; Grammar; Homeschooling
- Age:
- 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
- Grade:
- 7, 8, 9, 10
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-582-2
- Order code:
- 5822
- Price:
- $20.00
- Online Price:
- $10.00
Note for Homeschooling Parents: This book accompanies the Volume 2 Student Manual (Order Code: 2117). It does not replace it.
Magic Lens 2 Parent Guide sample pages:
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Advanced Academic Writing Vol 2: Parent Manual
- Author:
- Thompson, Michael Clay
- Subjects:
- English Language Arts; Writing; Homeschooling; Research Papers
- ISBN:
- 978-0-88092-695-9
- Order code:
- 6959
- Price:
- $50.00
- Online Price:
- $30.00
This Parent Manual for Advanced Academic Writing Volume 2 by Michael Clay Thompson is a new book for homeschooling parents who need to teach their children a proficiency in writing which they may not necessarily have themselves. The book includes the pages of the student manual with special instructions and comments for the parent. There is teaching advice, and special comments, on almost every page, and a homeschool section at the back of the book.
The Parent Manual contains a CD of grading comments and a short video of Michael addressing the student.
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