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I must admit, I don't think I truly remembered what the parts of speech were or how to identify them until I took a Linguistics class as a freshman in college where I learned how to diagram sentences. When I learned diagramming, something finally clicked, and I understood many patterns and rules of the English language that I had never fully comprehended before. Fortunately, you don't have to be a college freshman before you learn sentence diagramming. Diagramming starts out very basic with two word sentences, and you build on the sentences and add new parts of speech from there. 

When I tried to teach 8th grade language standards to the students I worked with in public school, they had no idea how to explain or identify gerunds or how to use verb moods because they didn't know what a noun and a verb were! We started at the beginning with sentence diagramming, and within a few weeks my students could identify nouns, verbs, articles, adjective, adverbs, prepositions, coordinating conjunctions, and compound sentences. It was amazing to see the progress they made through diagramming sentences for 5-10 minutes at the start of each class. 

In this course, students will have access to two diagramming lessons per week. Each lesson will consist of a video introducing a new part of speech or aspect of diagramming and some bullet points with the essential information from each video. In each video, I will spend a few minutes lecturing and showing students examples on Google Slides. Then, students will have the opportunity to practice diagramming sample sentences on their own. I will encourage them to pause the video while they try the sentences on their own, and then I will display the correct answers so they can check their work. Students are welcome to send their work to me for review if they are enrolled as self-paced.

Each lesson has an optional enrichment activity. Students may complete the enrichment activities and send me their work for feedback if they are enrolled as self-paced. At the end of each unit, there is a required quiz for students to complete. 

Students do not need any prior experience to join this class. Even if students understand what a noun and a verb are, they will still benefit from the slow but steady progression of adding other parts of speech and learning about important grammar rules. 

I am actually very excited about sentence diagramming! I know how much it helped me, and I have seen it work with many students.  Though it may be a dry topic to some, I think your learner will feel my enthusiasm throughout our lessons. I cannot wait to see them learn and grow!