Diagramming - the Dickens!
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 1:08AM Mike has been reading A Christmas Carol for us after dinner over a period of time. It has been a lot of fun to listen to such rich language! And I really love that the kids get the humorous parts. Mr. Charles Dickens did not have a problem with strong verbs and quality adjectives!!
Nor did he have a problem with Very Long Sentences. Michaela was so impressed with one in particular that she determined she would diagram it. The sentence is so long that it took up most of our medium sized white board.
After a great deal of time, mental effort, Google, and my diagram book, she (and I) came up with what we think is a likely diagram for this profusely descriptive arrangement of words for a snowy middle-of-the-night in London's 19th century!
Diagramming sentences that are made up for the purpose of teaching diagramming is one beast. Diagramming 19th century English classic English literature is another entirely. It is...well, it's the Dickens!
Reader Comments (2)
That is so fun that she diagrammed it! Our kids love to figure out complicated diagrams too. That is basically how we learn grammar right now: fitting the pieces into a diagram. Looks like you've got some infinitive clauses and a couple participles at the end? I'm trying to figure them out myself...
That is a pinterest picture, if I ever saw one. Seriously! That girl has learned some mad diagramming skillz from her mama.