bjrieb Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I graduated in 1991...we did it in 6th grade...and boy did I hate it. UGH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekster519 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I never learned it in school (1994 grad). I've learned a lot this year while teaching my 3rd grader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sneezyone Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 We did it (1994 grad) when I was in middle school in Connecticut. I hated it, but we did it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halcyon Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I went to a fancy private school in NYC, graduated in 87. I believe we did a little bit of diagramming, definitely grammar. My husband went to yeshiva in NYC and then to Columbia. He is studying Latin with my younger and is only now learning what the parts of speech are. (Okay, he knew noun and verb, and maybe adjective, but that's about the extent of it). He also acknowledges he is a poorer writer for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura in MI Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 No, they rarely teach any grammar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Baer Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 in the late 60's and 70's. I was looking forward to doing this too, but they stopped teaching it. I am now learning it and teaching it to my son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2_girls_mommy Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I had a wonderful, older teacher in middle school for grammar and a separate writing class for 2 years. She made us chant the helping words, the forms of be, and sing a silly song to say the present tense, past tense, and helper tense of a word. She was a very classical educator, and this was in public school in the late 80s. We diagrammed like crazy! I will also say that in 1st hr, all of the boys were in P.E., so it was an all girl class. I don't know if she did more with us than she did with the boys or not. I can still chant and sing the things she taught us and I use the same rhythms with my children that she used with us. Rod and Staff goes right along the same lines of the things we had to memorize, but starts it at a younger age. I am doing the helper verb lists and such with my 4th grader this year. And I miss Mrs. L every day :) She was awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homemama2 Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Never even heard of sentence diagramming until I read The Well Trained Mind. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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