MCT Level 4 Schedule (Literature, the new one)

[StephanieZ]

Hi y'all!

 

I'm a long time MCT lover who took the last couple years away from it waiting for my rising 8th grader to be ready for the upper levels, because there is such a big leap between level 3 and the OLD level 4. The other day I saw on another thread that MCT had a new level 4 stuck right where it should be, between levels! Woot!!

 

Anyway, I bought it right away and now have it scheduled for the year. Yippee!! I've shared my other MCT schedules previously and thought I'd post this one here, too, for posterity. Feel free to use/change/adapt or ignore. :) 

 

I haven't used it yet, obviously, but I've modeled it after the schedules I've used successfully with the other MCT levels. Note that I scheduled the Literature trilogy as well, separately, following the main MCT program schedule. I happen to own that already (MCT groupie, yes, I admit it), so I'm going ahead and doing it this year since it goes with it and dd hasn't done it yet. So excited to be doing MCT again! 

 

Oh, and, FWIW, for anyone who hasn't used MCT or waffles about whether to try it . . . ALL my kids agree that MCT is "the bomb" for English. Both my eldest scored top marks in PSAT/SAT tests and even the AP English tests. My 11th grader got a 4 on AP Language last year after pretty much totally ignoring his PA Homeschoolers class all year (another story, lol). He saw me with the MCT stuff today and that prompted an unsolicited RAVE from him about how much he learned from MCT. My eldest has repeatedly told me how her MCT grammar mad-skilz have made her (by far) the strongest grammarian/editor she knows at college and through her two AP English courses (and she TA'ed for a year, too). Anyway, I love MCT, and I wanted to share this if it's helpful to anyone. 

 

Happy MCT'ing!

 

33 Week MCT Level 4 (Literature) Schedule

Week No. // #Grammar of Literature; then 4 Practice // Vocabulary of Literature // Writing of Literature // Poetry of Literature

Weeks 1-5: Only Grammar of Literature

 

1  // GoL p. 14 (first half ch1) 

2  // GoL through p. 20 (end of ch1)

3  // GoL through p. 38 (end of ch2)
4  // GoL through p. 58 (end of ch3)
5  // GoL through p. 77 (end of ch4) 

 

Weeks 6 - 23: All 4 Texts (4 Practice instead of Grammar of Literature)

 

6  // 4P s.4 // VoL ch1 through Parts of Speech// WoL p10 // PoL p16
7  // 4P s.8 // VoL ch1 through Quiz // PoL p26 //
8  // 4P s.12 // VoL ch2 through Parts of Speech // WoL p31 // PoL p46
9  // 4P s.16 // VoL ch2 through Quiz // WoL p38 // PoL p64
10  // 4P s.20 // VoL ch3 through Parts of Speech // EWoL p46 // PoL p72
11  // 4P s.24 // VoL ch3 through Quiz // WoL p57 // WOP 3b
12  // 4P s.28 // VoL ch4 through Parts of Speech // WoL p67 // PoL p86

13  // 4P s.32 // VoL ch4 through Quiz // WoL p67 // PoL p92
14  // 4P s.36 // VoL ch5 through Parts of Speech // WoL p69 // PoL p94
15  // 4P s.40 // VoL ch5 through Quiz // WoL p74 // WoL p95
16  // 4P s.44 // VoL Review & Review Quiz 1-5 // WoL p82 // PoL p96
17  // 4P s.48 // VoL ch6 through Parts of Speech // WoL p93 // PoL p97
18  // 4P s.52 // VoL ch6 through Quiz // WoL p103 // PoL p98
19  // 4P s.56 // VoL ch7 through Parts of Speech // WoL p106 // PoL p99
20  // 4P s.60 // VoL ch7 through Quiz // WoL p119 // PoL p100
21  // 4P s.64 // VoL ch8 through Parts of Speech // WoL p121 // PoL p101
22  // 4P s.68 // VoL ch8 through Quiz // WoL p123 // PoL p102
23  // 4P s.72 // VoL ch9 through Parts of Speech // WoL p127 // PoL p103

 

Weeks 24 - 27: Done with Poetry, so no more PoL

 

24  // 4P s.76 // VoL ch9 through Quiz // WoL p137 // — 

25  // 4P s.80 // VoL ch10 through Parts of Speech // WoL p141 // — 

26  // 4P s.84 // VoL ch10 through Quiz // WoL p145 // —

27  // 4P s.88 // VoL Review & Review Quiz 1-10 // WoL p 151 // — 

 

Weeks 28 - 30: Also done with Vocabulary, so no more VoL; only 4P & WoL

 

28 4P s.92 // — //  WoL p 169 // — 

29 4P s.96 // — //  WoL p 179 // — 

30 4P s.8100 // — // WoL p184 // — 

 

Weeks 31-33: Also done with 4Practice, so no more 4P; only WoL

 

31 — // WoL p185

32 — // WoL p189

33 — // WoL p190

 

++++++++++

 

 

23 Week Time Trilogy Literature Plan

 

Background Study:

• 4-6PP descriptive essay (or power point oral presentation) about the author:: who, when, where, political situation/influence? war(s)? most important works?
• 4-6PP descriptive essay (or power point oral presentation) about the text: who wrote, when, what is the setting (where, when, politics, etc), why is it important? why do we still read it? was it important and/or popular at the time it was published?

 

While Reading:

• Quote Quiz each week
• Book discussion/talk each week

 

When Complete:

• Essay Test — 1 week prepare; 1 week take test
• MLA paper

 

 

1 // Essay/Presentation on background of HG Wells

2 // Essay/Presentation on background of Time Machine

3 // Time Machine Ch 1-6 & QQ

4 // Time Machine Ch 7-end & QQ

5 // Essay Test Preparation

6 // Essay Test

7 // MLA Paper

 

8 // Essay/Presentation on background of Mark Twain

9 // Essay/Presentation on background of CT Yankee

10 // CT Yankee Ch 1-11 & QQ

11 // CT Yankee Ch 12-22 & QQ

12 // CT Yankee Ch 23-33 & QQ

13 // CT Yankee Ch 34 - End & QQ

14 // Essay Test Preparation

15 // Essay Test

16 // MLA Paper

 

17 // Essay/Presentation on background of Charles Dickens

18 // Essay/Presentation on background of A Christmas Carol

19 // C Carol Ch 1-2 & QQ

20 // C Carol Ch 3-end & QQ

21 // Essay Test Preparation

22 // Essay Test

23 // MLA Paper

 

 

Time Machine: 12 ch; 187 pp

 

Connecticut Yankee: 44 ch; 540 pp

 

A Christmas Carol: 5 ch; 172 pp

 

 

[Arcadia]

What do you think of vocabulary of literature and poetry of literature? I am thinking of getting the ibook version for my kids who liked CE and WWtW for recreation but did not like the MCT grammar and writing books.

Edited July 30, 2016 by Arcadia

[AimeeM]

Following

[SoCal_Bear]

Would you be willing to share your schedules for the all the other levels? I'm not there yet...just planning to start out.

[StephanieZ]

26 Week Voyage Schedule/Plan

 

(by StephanieZ)

Note: Before beginning a book, be sure to look over the Teacher section at the back to note that there are exercises, activities, etc there that might be useful to you. They could be mixed in throughout the corresponding chapters/weeks or done later. It might also be useful to re-read the Teacher Sections a few weeks into the program when you might be more able to glean more insights.


Week No. // #Grammar Voyage // CE2 // Essay Voyage // World of Poetry
*1  // pretest + GV p. 33 (first half ch1)

*2  // GV through p. 69 (end of ch1)

*3  // GV through p. 87 (end of ch2)
*4  // GV through p. 97 (end of ch3)
*5  // GV through p. 112 (end of ch4) 

*6 // Analyze (together) the 13 sentences at end of TM + posttest
7  // PV s.5 // CE2 ch1 // EV 1a // WOP pretest (pp. 167-168) + ch1
8  // PI s.10 // CE2 ch2 // EV 1b // WOP ch2a
9  // PI s.15 // CE2 ch3 // EV 2a // WOP ch2b
10  // PI s.20 // CE2 ch4 // EV 2b // WOP Sound TTTA & TTD (pp. 165 & 166)
11  // PI s.25 // CE2 ch5 // EV 3a // WOP 3a
12  // PI s.30 // CE2 ch6 // EV 3b // WOP 3b
13  // PI s.35 // CE2 ch7 // EV 4a // WOP Meter TTTA & TTD (pp. 165 & 166)
14  // PI s.40 // CE2 ch8 // EV 4b // WOP 4a
15  // PI s.45 // CE2 ch9 // EV 5a // WOP 4b
16  // PI s.50 // CE2 ch10 // EV 5b // WOP Stanza TTTA & TTD (pp. 165 & 166)
17  // PI s.55 // CE2 ch11 // EV 6a // WOP 5a
18  // PI s.60 // CE2 ch12 // EV 6b // WOP 5b
19  // PI s.65 // CE2 ch13 // EV 7a // WOP Figures of Speech TTTA & TTD (pp. 165 & 166)
20  // PI s.70 // CE2 ch14 // EV 7b // WOP 6a
21  // PI s.75 // CE2 ch15 // EV 8a // WOP 6b
22  // PI s.80 // CE2 ch16 // EV 8b // WOP 7a
23  // PI s.85 // CE2 ch17 // EV 9a // WOP 7b
24  // PI s.90 // CE2 ch18 // EV 9b // WOP Practice Poems (pp. 175-184)
25  // PI s.95 // CE2 ch19 // EV 10a // WOP Content Review (pp. 249-256)

26  // PI s.100 // CE2 ch20 // EV 10b // WOP Post Test (pp 171-172)

 

* The six weeks for Grammar Voyage should be easy for students who have had an earlier level of MCTLA (and could be condensed to 4 weeks if desired) and sufficient for students who have a strong background in grammar. Other students might benefit from taking 8 weeks to go through GV. Remember that mastery of GV content is not needed during the trip through GV. Mastery will come later through the constant reinforcement in Essay Voyage and Practice Voyage.

 

# The 7 Poetry chapters and 10 Essay lessons are each divided over two weeks. Divide them among the days/weeks as makes sense to you. You could also alternate weeks (i.e., Poetry on A weeks and Essay on B weeks) if that makes more sense to you.

*** Ideally, poetry study would also include 20-30 minutes each week reading poems from nice books. Ideally, the child would be involved in choosing the poetry books and would take turns reading aloud. Ideally, read for 5 to 10 minutes several times a week. . . and then, at least once a week take time to look for poetic devices. Don't analyze every poem unless it is child-led (so that reading poetry can be enjoyed for its own sake sometimes and not always be an "exercise". Poetry memorization could also be included if appealing.

 

 

[StephanieZ]

Island Schedule/Plan

 

(by StephanieZ)

 

The page #s are for the last page of the week.

Note: Be sure to look over the Teacher section at the back of GI and the other books to note that there are exercises, etc there that might be useful to you if your child needs some reinforcement on various topics. They could be mixed in throughout the corresponding chapters/weeks or done later.

As you can see, I spread out the practice sentences longer than the rest of the program. That is because I am doing it with a 2nd grader and I do not want her to go into Town this school year. . . so there will be a 4-6 month gap between finishing Island and starting Town and I would prefer to have some Practice Sentences to do during that time to keep her skills up. You could obviously do 5 sentences a week instead of 4 and thus get done all about the same time.


Week #  // Grammar  // Vocab  // Writing  // Poetry
1  // GI p.43
2  // GI p.90
3  // GI p.114
4  // GI p.123
5  // GI end // BL to p.27
6  // PI s.4 // BL to p. 40 // SI l.1 // MoH to p.37
7  // PI s.8 // BL l.1 // SI l.2 // MoH pg.163
8  // PI s.12 // BL --- // SI l.3 // MoH to p.63
9  // PI s.16 // BL l.2 // SI l.4 // MoH pg.165
10  // PI s.20 // BL --- // SI l.5 // MoH to p.79
11  // PI s.24 // BL l.3 // SI l.6 // MoH pg. 167
12  // PI s.28 // BL --- // SI l.7 // MoH to p.116
13  // PI s.32 // BL l.4 // SI l.8 // MoH pg. 171
14  // PI s.36 // BL --- // SI l.9 // MoH to p. 138
15  // PI s. 40 // BL l.5 // SI l.10 // MoH pg. 173
16  // PI s. 44 // BL --- // SI l.11 // MoH to p. 144
17  // PI s.48 // BL l.6 // SI l.12 // MoH pg. 174
18  // PI s. 52 // BL --- // SI l.13 // MoH pg. 176
19  // PI s. 56 // BL l.7 // SI l.14 // *** See note
20  // PI s.60 // BL --- // SI l.15
21  // PI s.64 // BL l.8 // SI l.16
22  // PI s.68 // BL --- // SI l.17
23  // PI s.72 // BL l.9 // SI l.18
24  // PI s.76 // BL --- // SI l.19
25  // PI s.80 // BL l.10 // SI l.20
26  // PI s.84 // BL --- // ###
27  // PI s.88
28  // PI s.92
29  // PI s.96
30  // PI s. 100

*** Poetry for weeks 19 - onwards would include 20-30 minutes each week reading poems from nice books. Ideally, the child would be involved in choosing the poetry books and would take turns reading aloud if able. Ideally, read for 5 to 10 minutes several times a week. . . and then, at least once a week take time to look for poetic devices. Don't do this with every poem unless it is child led (so that reading poetry can be enjoyed for its own sake sometimes and not always be an "exercise". Poetry memorization could also be included if appealing.

### When SI is complete, I would just be sure to include some writing experience in each of the the remaining weeks of the school year by assigning SI-inspired writing each week as I am inspired by other subjects, etc. 

 

[StephanieZ]

25 Week Town Schedule/Plan

 

(by StephanieZ)

Note: Before beginning a book, be sure to look over the Teacher section at the back to note that there are exercises, activities, etc there that might be useful to you. They could be mixed in throughout the corresponding chapters/weeks or done later. It might also be useful to re-read the Teacher Sections a few weeks into the program when you might be more able to glean more insights.


Week No. // #Grammar Town // CE1 // Paragraph Town // #Building Poems
*1  // pretest (p.114) + GT p. 30 (first half ch1)

*2  // GT through p. 62 (end of ch1)

*3  // GT through p. 78 (end of ch2)
*4  // GT through p. 87 (end of ch3)
*5  // GT through p. 110 (end of ch4) + posttest (p.116)
6  // PT s.5 // CE1 ch1 // **PT 1 // BP pretest (pp. 142-143) + ch1
7  // PT s.10 // CE1 ch2 // PT 2 // BP ch2a
8  // PT s.15 // CE1 ch3 // PT 3 // BP ch2b
9  // PT s.20 // CE1 ch4 // PT 4 // BP Sound TTTA & TTD (pp. 140-141)
10  // PT s.25 // CE1 ch5 // PT 5 // BP 3a
11  // PT s.30 // CE1 ch6 // PT 6 // BP 3b
12  // PT s.35 // CE1 ch7 // PT 7 // BP Meter TTTA & TTD (pp. 140-141)
13  // PT s.40 // CE1 ch8 // PT 8 // BP 4a
14  // PT s.45 // CE1 ch9 // PT 9 // BP 4b
15  // PT s.50 // CE1 ch10 // PT 10 // BP Stanza TTTA & TTD (pp. 140-141)
16  // PT s.55 // CE1 ch11 // PT 11 // BP 5a
17  // PT s.60 // CE1 ch12 // PT 12 // BP 5b
18  // PT s.65 // CE1 ch13 // PT 13 // BP Figures of Speech TTTA & TTD (pp. 140-141)
19  // PT s.70 // CE1 ch14 // PT 14 // BP 6a
20  // PT s.75 // CE1 ch15 // PT 15 // BP 6b
21  // PT s.80 // CE1 ch16 // PT 16 // BP 7a
22  // PT s.85 // CE1 ch17 // PT 17 // BP 7b
23  // PT s.90 // CE1 ch18 // PT 18 // BP Practice Poems (pp. 152-160)
24  // PT s.95 // CE1 ch19 // PT 19 // BP Content Review (pp. 122-125)

25  // PT s.100 // CE1 ch20 // PT 20 // BP Post Test (pp 146-147)

 

* The five weeks for Grammar Town should be easy for students who have had an earlier level of MCTLA (and could be condensed to 4 weeks if desired) and sufficient for students who have a strong background in grammar. Other students might benefit from taking 6 to 8 weeks to go through GT. Remember that mastery of GT content is not needed during the trip through GT. Mastery will come later through the constant reinforcement in Essay Voyage and Practice Voyage.

 

** Don’t just start reading Paragraph Town to the kids (like you did for Grammar Town) until you have previewed the Teacher Section in PT! The 20 PT Lessons are outlined in the Teacher Section and the first ten lessons include the reading of the PT text; the second ten lessons are ‘extended practice’ and also include planned review of the PT text.

 

# Six of the seven Poetry chapters are each divided over two weeks. Divide them among the days/weeks as makes sense to you. 

*** Ideally, poetry study would also include 20-30 minutes each week reading poems from nice books. Ideally, the child would be involved in choosing the poetry books and would take turns reading aloud. Ideally, read for 5 to 10 minutes several times a week. . . and then, at least once a week take time to look for poetic devices. Don't analyze every poem unless it is child-led (so that reading poetry can be enjoyed for its own sake sometimes and not always be an ‘exercise’. Poetry memorization could also be included if appealing.

 

[StephanieZ]

Would you be willing to share your schedules for the all the other levels? I'm not there yet...just planning to start out.

 

Done. :) I hope these are helpful.

[StephanieZ]

What do you think of vocabulary of literature and poetry of literature? I am thinking of getting the ibook version for my kids who liked CE and WWtW for recreation but did not like the MCT grammar and writing books.

 

I haven't used this level yet. I trust they will be excellent as have been all the MCT books I've used. 

 

I think both MCT vocab and the poetry books can stand alone, even though I think that is a tragic loss skipping the grammar and writing. :) 

 

Since I haven't used these books yet (but I'm familiar enough with MCT not to feel the need to spend a lot of time pre-reading), I can't guarantee that the poetry and vocab will stand alone nicely, but all the other levels of MCT I've used would certainly work that way, so I see no reason not to expect this level to do so as well. 

[SeaConquest]

Done. :) I hope these are helpful.

 

Yes. Thank you for these. :)

[SoCal_Bear]

Thank you so much!

 

[StephanieZ]

You're entirely welcome. I'm happy to pay forward some of the infinite helps I've received on these boards over the last 15+ years. :) 

[igbu]

We will be trying MCT for the first time this year. Your schedules will help tremendously! Thank you.

[kbutton]

Thanks! We are actually working across levels (2e kids here). My younger one might stay on level, but I am not sure. This is great stuff!