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I'm really wanting to make sure that I understand the concept of narration and make sure that I am taking its full advantage.  We are using LBC Foundation and completing our first week...Loving it so far!

I read my daughter the Bible Story and I had her narrate it to me.  As she told me the story in her own words, I wrote down what she wrote.  My questions specifically lie within "correcting" narration.  I noticed that her sentences were not always correct.

For instance, one of her statements was, "God throwed them away with satan."  Throwed is obviously not correct.  Should I be correcting her during her narration???  I don't want to discourage her but I also don't want to just ignore it either.    (I purposely didn't capitalize the evil ones name...he does not deserve it.)

I'd appreciate any input.

]]> Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:12:16 BranchOfWisdom http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1254431183/ http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1254431183/#num1 ) will feel free to question, comment or advise. I wasn't really sure how much I should be prompting or correcting. I asked the questions and then typed her answers as she narrated. After, I read them back to her and asked if she wanted to add anything else. This is our first year, first term with this curriculum, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this part "right" or not. Anyway, here are a couple that we did - I did edit out the "uhs" and "ums" and encouraged her to gather her thoughts before starting to speak and try to tell it in "sentences," coming to a stop at the end of each thought.

Heroes of the Faith

     Tell the story of your favorite missionary and explain why he is favored.
     
     My favorite was the story of H.B. Garlock [We looked up the name.]. He made this great Bible school, and one day when they were telling the story of someone being blind and God healed him, then after the story, the King’s son asked the missionary if he could not become not blind any more because of God. The missionary said, with true believing in God it might happen. So after a brutal long prayer,  James’ scales fell off. He ran home to show his father the king what had happened. When James’ father the king saw what had happened, he gave his life to God. Giving your life to God means giving up idols and he went to church (he didn’t worship idols anymore). The missionary lived a great life; he went to church and he was just brilliant. He helped a lot of people.

Shakespeare

     Tell what each of the three sisters in King Lear told their father when he asked them, “Tell me how much you love me.”

     King Lear is a King, and he asked his daughters how much do you love me? Well, the two older sisters, who are really, really wicked, said, “Oh, we love you father, we love you as much as the whole world!” The youngest sister, who knew they were really wicked, was disgusted by their sayings of not really loving him, just telling him in lies. So the king, who loved the younger daughter best, was expecting something better from her. So, she says, “I love you as it is my duty to love you.”

     Tell what happened to Cordelia in the story.

     She got banished from the kingdom, because King Lear was disappointed, because he was expecting something better than the other sisters. She wasn’t allowed to go back to her own castle. Cordelia went to another castle and got married. She married either a king, a prince or a duke. She started living as a queen. She later, after King Lear found out that she really loved him the best, went to find her father.

     What happened at the end?

King Lear and Cordelia both went to prison. The two sisters killed each other with poison and a knife called a dagger. But right before they killed each other, one of the wicked sisters ordered Cordelia to be hanged. The wicked sister’s husband, who found out the whole story, went to rescue Cordelia, but it was too late. She already died. King Lear came out carrying the body of Cordelia, and then he died and fell to the floor. The End.

(I hope you can read these - I can't get the bold and underline functions to work.)

Blessings,
Melissa]]> Thu, 1 Oct 2009 17:06:23 luvmybaby http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1239621406/ http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1239621406/#num1 Just wanted to tell everyone of the wonderful results from this great program!  My oldest daughter is working on grade 2 and learning about the Egyptians, and we decided to sign up for a homeschool history fair.  All the kids made projects about what they had been learning in history.  When the History Fair was almost over, the librarian came down to look at all the projects, and she went around asking the kids questions. Well when she came to my daughter she asked her about the pictures on her poster. First the librarian asked her about the Rosetta Stone, and she proceeded to tell the whole story, just as we had read it from the book.  She remembered all the details! Then the librarian asked her about Hatshepsut, and again my daughter told the whole long story!  Everyone was amazed at how much she knew. I was even surprised with the amount of details she remembered! Before my daughter hated history, I remember her asking me why we had to learn this boring stuff.  Well, on the way home from the history fair, my daughter said to me, "History is great when you learn the story, instead of all the boring dates. Hey I know why they call it history because the end of the word is Story!  It's stories that really happened!"
I'm sure this would never have happened to us if we didn't switch to CM!
Alissa]]> Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:16:46 asmall http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236965615/ http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236965615/#num1
I'm sure that this is all because of the CM methods and this great curriculum!
Alissa]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:33:35 asmall http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236965552/ http://www.livingbookscurriculum.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1236965552/#num1
Alissa]]> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:32:32 asmall