special request

[heathertam]

My name is Heather, and I have been considering using “First Language Lessons” text as a basis for homeschooling my two children. I find the approach clear, easy to use, and enjoyable for both teacher and students. My challenge is regarding the content- in many cases, I am interested in substituting other literary material to use as examples or “cases in point” (it’s a long story, but I wish to include some other material as the content base, partly for efficiency in teaching, since I need to teach the other material anyways, and partly because of personal/spiritual convictions). I see, though, that your material is carefully and strategically chosen, and you accomplish, I think, more than one teaching goal with a certain poem or story. So what I’d like to do, if it were possible, would be to have a list of literary pieces that you have chosen in your book, matched with the concepts that will be taught from them. Then I could go about matching the material that I would like to use to the concepts needing to be taught i.e. finding a poem to illustrate verbs, etc. and then substituting that piece whenever needed. I was unable to locate a list like that in the book, but I can see that it would be unnecessary for most people using it. (J)
Thank you so much!
Heather Tam

[Shannon831]

Heather,
Although SWB is an occasional presence on the board, I doubt she'll catch this post. You might want to email your suggestions to PHP instead. Hth,

[Cadam]

Are you trying to substitute the poetry and copywork? You certainly could do that in FLL. Many of us change out the poetry since it is adapted.

btw, your post sounded like you were trying to write the author maybe? SWB will sometimes post but I have never seen Jessie Wise (the author of FLL ) post.

We are just other moms following the Well Trained Mind and many of us use First language lessons for grammar. It is a great introduction to English grammar with the poem memorization, copy-work and some narration introduced as well.