Ditto the bolded! Mrs Mungo, what page were you on when you did the search? If you are in a thread and go to the search box at the top, it will search only that thread for your search term. There's a little grey box that says "this thread" or "forums" to show what is being searched. So if you happened to be in this thread when you did the search, only results from this thread would appear. I did a search on "migas" from the main forum page and got lots of results. Well, 17 anyway. Does that seem about right? I also did the search I've been testing -- "rybczynski" and did get all three threads I expected. So, definite progress!

This is pretty much our house. We try to eat around 7:10, before dh heads out the door at 7:30. It doesn't always happen, but it works best when it does. Since dh is showering, etc., I make the breakfast or occasionally ds does. Oatmeal, eggs, toast, maybe pancakes or migas or fried rice. Once in awhile dh will make a batch of biscuits and put them in the oven before taking his shower, but mostly he saves his breakfast cooking for the weekend -- biscuits and gravy, cheese blintzes, and other deliciousness.

I keep a list going in my paper planner of general to-do items. When I make a plan for the day, I write it on a post-it note and put it on the cover of my laptop. I don't do this every day -- only days with lots of things out of the ordinary or to help me really focus on being productive. Paper works much better for me than electronic systems. And having the post-it on my laptop cover has the added benefit of forcing me to look at my list before I do anything on the computer all day long. I love when I can cross the last thing off and rip that post-it note off!

I generally just hit the New Content button, showing posts from all forums, so I don't really notice a distinction.

I suppose because it directly follows "I". I believe that in English a relative clause must follow directly the noun or noun phrase it modifies. If we start with a basic sentence with a predicate nominative, such as: The man is a fiend. We can modify the subject by adding an adjective clause after "man" or modify the predicate nominative by adding an adjective clause after "fiend". We depend on the location of the clause to know which noun is being modified. The man who bakes cookies is a fiend. (clause answers "which man?") The man is a fiend who bakes cookies. (clause answers "what kind of fiend?") If we wanted to modify the subject in the original sentence we would have change "it" to "the one" or "the woman" or some other noun and say: The one who wants to go to bed is I.

Yes, "It" is the subject. The main clause of the sentence is "It is I" -- a subject with a linking verb and predicate nominative. That's the straightforward part. The difficult part is the adjective clause "who want/wants to go to bed". The subject of this clause is the relative pronoun "who". In order to determine what verb form to use with "who" we look to its antecedent. Normally, we need only think about whether the antecedent is singular or plural, as in these sentences: It is the cat who wants to go to bed. It is the cats who want to go to bed. But actually we do have to consider the number *and* person of the antecedent. It just doesn't happen very often that it makes a difference. In this case the antecedent is "I" (first person, singular) so we use the appropriate verb form "want". It is I who want to go to bed. A good check is to take the antecedent of the pronoun ("I") and substitute it for the pronoun. It must (a) make sense and (B) fit grammatically. In this sentence, we check by saying "I want to go to bed" and it works.

That's a great system! And I like your categories. I always love when I find a "system" for getting something done. It's so much easier when things are built into your routine.

For that use of the word "generation", they do belong to the same generation. When people talk about the number of generations together at an event, they mean generations within the family. But for cultural purposes, the ds and the dss belong to different generations, as others have said.

Aha! I thought it might be programming, but I didn't know of the Mt. Dew connection. My dh programs also and he does enjoy a Mt. Dew now and then. He's more of a tea drinker in general, but then programming is only a small part of his job. Maybe if he did more he'd drink more Dew. Funny!

What does "good coder" mean and what does it have to do with Mt. Dew? I'm mystified!

I was going to say the same thing. My dh tells me he did this in high school. The 14 hours over vacation might not represent how much he needs. It probably reveals a long-term sleep deficit. I think there's no doubt that the 8 hours he's getting now isn't enough. But you might find that if he got 10 hours regularly, he wouldn't need the 12 and 14 hour nights very often.

Thank you for this title! My ds has been asking to learn about relativity, and I'm a big fan of Martin Gardner. I think I'll pick this up for Christmas.

Shades of Gray by Carolyn Reeder The Perilous Road by William Steele Turn Homeward, Hanalee by by Patricia Beatty These are all readers in Sonlight's American History Part 2 core. I don't know their reading levels, but the core is for 4th grade so they may work. My son particularly like Shades of Gray.

We read Across Five Aprils when my ds was 10 (and a fairly mature reader). It was perfect. He really connected with the characters. We both enjoyed it tremendously. I'd save Red Badge of Courage for later. Lots of my friends had to read it in junior high and they all hated it. I haven't read it myself, so I can't say for sure, but I wonder if it's one of those books you can only appreciate with a little more maturity.

Is that your house in the picture? Wow, it's a beautiful house and a beautiful picture. I thought it was from a catalog or something, it seemed so perfect!

Can you give an example where there would be only one sub-topic? I posted an example above, and it seems to me that the one sub-topic is actually the main topic. Are there cases where that doesn't happen? You can use a made-up example like I did.

It makes sense to me, and that's what I was taught too. If the main topic is "Trade in the Ming Dynasty" and the only subtopic is "Trade of Silver", then really the section isn't about trade in the Ming Dynasty. It's about the silver trade during that time. I would outline it like this: III. Trade of Silver in the Ming Dynasty . . . A. Trade with Europe . . . B. Trade with Japan . . . etc. On the other hand, if there is some general information about trade and then silver is an extended example, I would probably outline it like this: III. Trade in the Ming Dynasty . . . A. General Practices . . . B. Trade of Silver But I'm no expert on outlining. (Or on the Ming Dynasty. Please excuse any errors in my made-up example.) I'd be interested to see more examples.

Oh, whoops. I misvoted then. I voted cuh-TAN but I actually say cuh-TAHN. I have heard people say cuh-TAN now that I think about it, but it sounds wrong to me. I have never heard CAY-ten.

Just a thought -- if you find a pj you like with only one pattern, maybe you could just have the two sets monogrammed or embroidered with something unique to distinguish them.

I have been wondering that as well. When looking at a user profile, there is a tab labeled "Topics" and one labeled "Posts". It does bring up posts and threads by that user, but not all of them. For example, I clicked on your profile and under those tabs there are five Posts and no Topics. Clearly, you have many more posts and topics than that. How do we access them?

I agree with your philosophy on this type of assignment, particularly for young elementary students. I would rather have them copy correctly written sentences. Once a child is solid in their understanding of the rules, then I think editing exercises like these are fine, if additional practice is needed. What an interesting exercise! This reminds me of the "sentence composing" method used in the Killgallon books and in Image Grammar. I have done similar exercises with my 12yo son in the past year with more complex patterns. We take a sentence from literature and then create our own sentences using the same grammatical structure as the model, but with completely different vocabulary. It's a very fun, stretching exercise for seeing how to incorporate more sophisticated structures in your writing. The exercise you describe seems different in two ways. One, it's based not on a model sentence but on an abstract sentence structure. And two, the sentence structure is a very basic one. And of course this is with young elementary students rather than logic stage as my son is. I don't know. I wouldn't have a *problem* with the exercise. I never tried sentence composing when my son was very young. I don't know what the intended benefits are, but I'd be interested to try it out and see. As long as the abstractness of it wasn't too frustrating for the student. That sounds a little tough for a 2nd grader and definitely tough for a Ker (looking at your sig).

Here is an example. I was trying to find this thread recently: http://forums.welltr...n-reading-list/ I remembered some of the words from the thread, namely "Rybczynski" and "Cuckoo's Egg" and used them as my search terms. I thought they would be unusual terms to make it easy to find the desired thread. I am attaching screen shots showing both searches, neither of which found the thread. Another poster was kind enough to find the thread for me -- I'm not sure how -- which is how I am able to link it now. I also tried searching on google, and this link showed up: http://forums.welltr...p/t-354049.html which does not work. However, just now when I tried searching on google again, a new result shows up with the correct link: http://forums.welltr...n-reading-list/ I'm attaching a screen shot of the current google results. Thanks for all your work in improving the site!

Hey, that's good to know. Thanks! Cool! Any tips on how you found it? I searched, using the search function at the top of the forums, for terms I knew were in my post, like "Rybczynski" (no results found) and "Cuckoo's Egg" (two results but neither was that thread). I am finding it very difficult to find the threads I know are out there.

There was a thread on this same idea before that had a great list going. I could not find it through the search engine here, but I did find it on google. Unfortunately, the link no longer works. Frustrating! I did find a cached version, however. The formatting is difficult to read, but at least the content is there: Creating a high school non-fiction reading list [Archive]

That sounds really annoying! I haven't had any of these issues except for the very first day the forums were back up. Then again, I don't post very much. But if it helps, I am using Firefox and NOT having issues.