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Monday, July 16, 2007
Two Feet, Two Levels
I've been thinking lately, novel I know, about Grace's learning style and her levels. It became apparent, after visiting several curriculum sites this morning, that Grace has one foot in the grammar stage, and one foot in dialectic/rhetoric stages. I am wondering how to "marry" all of that in a curriculum. The answer, it seems to me, is to either get stuff at the grammar stage and add the dialectic/rhetorical in, or the reverse! LOL That's the easy part. HOW is the hard part, right? I really like the idea of just letting her go and working on the grammar stuff as it arises, but I can't shake the thought that she's not filling in enough "holes". SIGH. I thought I had decided to drop her back a year in her core studies for that very reason, but I'm not sure she'll be amenable to that level without the "bells and whistles" of the higher-level stuff. That makes finding materials difficult, as there ARE holes, but she is also capable of some very impressive higher-level thinking. I suppose this is what they mean when DYS talks of children being in many levels at one time. I suppose I though we'd skipped that. ;)
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5 comments:
What curriculum stuff are you looking at?
LOL! ALL of it. It was like a sudden dawning of realization. I KNEW it already, but I *saw* the concept of being at two levels in my mind's eye. KWIM?
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My thought on this is to have some of the core stuff -- math and science especially -- be taught at the "grammar" stage, but that other subjects, specifically independent reading, at the logic stage. I know what you mean, though, about Grace being in two worlds, because it's not enough for Lou simply to memorize information: she also has to ask and argue ABOUT the information.
I completely agree with you, Baudelaire! Grace seems to *always* argue the information. It's quite maddening, actually. I also LOVE it. I suppose I am a bit loopy myself! LOL
We've got a better idea about what direction we are taking in the Fall, and Grace has a lot of input. I'll try to post a mini-IHIP for everyone in a bit!
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