Does Classical Writing teach grammar?

[gandpsmommy]

And does it include diagramming sentences? I'm considering using it with dd7 (Aesop A). She will be using Prima Latina, as well. She finished the second grade work for FLL in first grade. I thought maybe we could just review the highlights of grammar (nouns, verbs, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, adverbs, articles) from that and maybe choose another formal grammar program next year, if I don't feel she's getting enough from Latin and writing. Does this sound advisable?

[Mamagistra]

The grammar in Aesop is very basic (parts of speech, types of sentences) but it ramps up quite a bit in Homer with diagramming, marking, and some parsing. Harvey's Elementary Grammar (or another rigorous text) is recommended alongside Homer to introduce more in-depth grammar.

 

For your dd, I think keeping up with the parts of speech will be just fine. If you decide to stay with the Memoria Press sequence in Latin (Latina Christiana I and II), there's a great deal of grammar there.

 

Hope that's helpful. :)

[Kathie in VA]

Aesop A teaches some grammar and you reinforce it by finding it within the model. No additional grammar text is needed.

 

Aesop B continues this and introduces diagramming near the middle/end of the book. They recommend Mary Daly's First Book of Diagramming for help with this if needed.

 

Homer A & B teach even more grammar concepts. You will need a separate grammar text. Their books follow Harvey's Grammar but you can use something else. Many use Rod & Staff Eng. Diagramming is still used but so is parsing.

 

The next book, Diogenes, continues the grammar some more. I believe the study of grammar is finished in this book.

 

The theory in Herodotus is formal logic w/Traditional and Material Logic.

Plutarch teaches Ceremonial rhetoric.

Demosthenes covers syllogistic logic, Aristotle’s Rhetoric, & Corbett’s Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student.

 

hth