MCT Level 2 Complete Homeschool Package with Caesar's English I Color Edition

Grammar Town builds on the foundation presented in Grammar Island and offers increasingly sophisticated concepts with the theme set in a townscape. It continues the full four-level grammar of (1) parts of speech, (2) parts of sentences, (3) phrases, and (4) clauses.

We recommend that you purchase both the student book and the teacher manual to teach this book effectively.

The Grammar Town teacher manual includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and further questions for the instructor, pre- and post-tests, activities for further study, and wonderful original readings to keep the energy level charged with fun learning.

This is a beautiful edition of Caesar's English I: Classical Education Edition, Parts I and II, with all the illustrations and photographs in full color and on special, high-quality paper. For a full description of the contents, see here.

There is a set of flashcards available to help children study the stems and words in this book. Click here to go to the flashcards.

Note: New to the third edition of this book is a special bonus feature: QR codes that link to audio of Michael Clay Thompson reading his poems and his exposition on the first classic word in each even-numbered chapter. This enables children to hear the words in context and to know how they are pronounced. Myriam Borges Thompson had written two Spanish translations of Michael's poems for this book previously; now she has added several more, and she too has provided audio for the book, reading her Spanish translations.

The implementation manual for Caesar's English I, Classical Education Edition contains the full text of the student book, plus answers to the questions and activities, together with extensive implementation strategies and advice. It also contains cumulative quizzes and answer keys for each lesson of the book.

We recommend getting both the student books and the implementation manual for this text, as there are too many places where the implementation manual gives away the answers to the questions and exercises. In addition, the implementation manual is contained within a single book, whereas the student version is broken into two parts, making it easier for children to handle.

There is a set of flashcards available to help children study the stems and words in this book. Click here to go to the flashcards.

Note: New to the third edition of this book is a special bonus feature: QR codes that link to audio of Michael Clay Thompson reading his poems and his exposition on the first classic word in each even-numbered chapter. This enables children to hear the words in context and to know how they are pronounced. Myriam Borges Thompson had written two Spanish translations of Michael's poems for this book previously; now she has added several more, and she too has provided audio for the book, reading her Spanish translations.

Paragraph Town is at the same level as Grammar Town, Caesar's English I, and Building Poems. These four books enable instructors to implement a full language arts curriculum strongly grounded in the fundamentals.

This book gives children an entertaining and comprehensive introduction to the paragraph within the narrative of a story. The protagonists who teach the concepts are two engaging ducks who explore the importance of organizing sentences into orderly paragraphs with dialogue, description, comparison, punctuation, and grammar.

The book also contains an extensive, structured section of exercises and consists of twenty lessons, each containing in-depth exposition and assignments.

We recommend that you purchase both the student book and the teacher manual to teach this book effectively.

The Paragraph Town teacher manual includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and further questions for the instructor, as well as suggestions for implementing the student book, an extensive section of activities, and answers to questions and exercises.

Building Poems, the second book of Michael Clay Thompson's poetics series, uses architecture as an extended metaphor, showing that poems are constructed like buildings, with careful attention to every detail. Like the metaphor itself, the book is constructed so that it beautifully illustrates the points made by reinforcing them visually. 

This book takes the same basic topics that were introduced in The Music of the Hemispheres and expands upon them, adding new elements. It includes alliteration, assonance, consonance, end rhyme, rhyme scheme, internal rhyme, eye-rhyme, poetic feet, iambs, trochees, anapests, dactyls, spondees, sonnets, ballads, rime royal, limericks, similes, metaphors, personification, apostrophe, and endstopped versus enjambed lines.

These elements are exhibited in the poems of famous poets such as Lewis Carroll, T.S. Eliot, Emily Dickinson, William Blake, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Keats, Edward Lear, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Robert Frost, Henry Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Shakespeare, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The book enables students to understand and appreciate poetry on a far higher level than usual. It can be used as a stand-alone introduction to poetry for young students or to set the stage for a more advanced program in middle or high school.

Note: New to the second edition of this book are QR codes that link to audio of Michael Clay Thompson himself reading the poems in the book.

The Building Poems teacher manual includes the full text of the student book plus special boxes that contain tips and further questions for the instructor, activities for further study, suggestions for implementing the student book, a pre- and post-test with answer keys, a review quiz, and study poems for in-depth examination with the students.

Note: New to the second edition of this book are QR codes that link to audio of Michael Clay Thompson himself reading the poems in the book.

Practice Town is a supplement to Grammar Town and is the practice workbook for the second level of the MCT language arts curriculum. Its aim is to improve students' grammar and writing skills through analysis of individual sentences. Students work through the sentences using the unique four-level analysis method that is introduced in Grammar Town.

Each of the one hundred sentences appears on a separate page with four blank lines beneath it where students can fill in the parts of speech, the parts of the sentence, phrases, and clauses. By examining a wide range of sentences, students will experience the satisfaction of a clear understanding of the principles of English sentences.

This useful workbook is meant to be consumable and is therefore offered at a low cost.

Practice Town contains 100 four-level analysis practice sentences. The teacher manual provides an introduction to the four-level analysis method, advice on implementation, correct answers, and comments about each sentence.

The Alice, Peter, and Mole Trilogy contains the classic novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Peter Pan, and The Wind in the Willows. Each book is reproduced in its entirety and includes Michael Clay Thompson's "language illustrations"—close-ups of poetic techniques, four-level analyses of interesting grammar, and comments about writing strategies. Challenging vocabulary is defined at the bottom of each page. The combination of those devices makes these novels perfect companions to his MCT language arts curriculum, which contains grammar, vocabulary, writing, and poetics strands.

The parent manual includes a short essay by Michael about each novel, vocabulary words to study in advance of the readings, language illustration questions, quotations for quote quizzes, discussion questions and activities, and suggestions for academic writing practice.