In a message dated 7/27/2006 3:17:13 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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different between the word classes of ATEG and Parts of Speech of  history 
and the rest of the world.  


Phil,
 
Chiming in from the trenches of middle school, I think you  underestimate 
students.  I was forced to teach grammar from Elements of  Writing; if you don't 
know it, think Warriners.  As I taught it, I  constantly told them that this 
or that term was a bit outdated and was now  called whatever. I also told them 
that they would wow their high school and  college teachers if they could 
remember words like aspect or noun phrases.  
 
They used to furiously scribble both terms down; both because I'd  talk about 
it, using words that weren't in the book and because they wanted to  appear 
learned to their future teachers. In fact, I always  start 7th grade grammar 
off with lots of word sorts, so word classes works  well.  We had fun figuring 
out pronoun cases by just such a  sort.
 
It beats circling endless pronouns and drawing an arrow  to their antecedents 
. . . .
 
~Gretchen
 
 

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