L 6.8 Mixed Review and Passages for Analysis (KISS Grammar)

April 18, 2014

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Level 6.8 Mixed Review and Additional Passages for Analysis

This is simply a collection of mixed review exercises, prose passages, poems, and jokes. They were originally in what was called "Practice/Application" exercises.

Mixed Construction Reviews

Passages for Analysis

Poems for Analysis

Plays for Analysis

A green background in the right (grade-level) column indicates that the exercise is in the printable version.

Mixed Construction Reviews (Sentences)

Mixed Construction Reviews - Level 3

From "The Spring Beauty : An Ojibbeway Legend"

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Mixed Construction Reviews - Level 4

Review of Advanced Constructions (Maxwell Advanced) # 1

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From The Master of Ballantrae, by R. L. Stevenson

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Review of Advanced Constructions (Maxwell Advanced) # 2

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Analogies Found in High School Essays? #1

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Prose Passages for Analysis

Prose Passages for Level 1 - "How Much I Can Explain"

For "Ideal" Grade 1

"Little Rabbit," (Part One) from the Elson Primer

"Little Rabbit," (Part Two) from the Elson Primer

Lesson 27 from Funk and Wagnall's 1902 Standard First Reader

Lesson 28 from Funk and Wagnall's 1902 Standard First Reader

Lesson 66 from Funk and Wagnall's 1902 Standard First Reader

Lesson 72 from Funk and Wagnall's 1902 Standard First Reader

Lesson 74 from Funk and Wagnall's 1902 Standard First Reader

For "Ideal" Grade 2

"The Windmill," (Part One) from the Elson Primer

"The Windmill," (Part Two) from the Elson Primer

"The Windmill," (Part Three) from the Elson Primer

"The Windmill," (Part Four) from the Elson Primer

The First Paragraph of Holbrook's "The Story of the First Moles," (100 %)

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From "Little Joe Otter's Slippery Slide," by Thornton W. Burgess (97 %)

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Ex # 1 from Lang's "Thumbelina" (90 %)

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Ex # 2 from Lang's "Thumbelina" (91 %)

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Andersen, H. C. "The Little Match Girl,"Ex # 1

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"The Spring Beauty : An Ojibbeway Legend" (98%)

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From Chapter Six of Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

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Prose Passages for Level 2

Andersen, H. C. "The Little Match Girl,"Ex # 2

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Andersen, H. C. "The Little Match Girl,"Ex # 4

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From "The Town Punp," by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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From Chapter Ten of Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

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From Chapter Seven of Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

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Prose Passages for Level 3.1

From Kipling's "The Beginning of the Armadilloes"

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"The Birth of Thumbelina," from Lang's Thumbelina

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The Opening of Lang's "Brave Walter "

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From Chapter Five of Blue Willow, by Doris Gates

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Ex # 1 from Carrie's War, by Nina Bawden

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"Hares and Hounds"

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The Opening of Lassie, Come Home, by Eric Knight

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Prose Passages for Level 3.2

Aesop's "The Cock and the Jewel"

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The Opening of R. L. Stevenson's The Master of Ballantrae

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From “Old Put” The Patriot, by Frederick A. Ober

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Aesop's "The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf" (Milo Winter)

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Prose Passages for Level 4

From The Queen of the Pirate Isle, by Bret Harte

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A Description of the Master of Ballantrae

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"The Grief of Henry Adams," by Allen Guttmann

Poems for Analysis

Poems for Level 1

B-I-N-G-O ("There was a farmer")	AK	ToC
"Sing a Song of Sixpence"	AK	ToC
"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"	AK	ToC

From William Wordsworth's "Written in March"

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"Singing," by Robert L. Stevenson (98 %)

"Time to Rise," by Robert L. Stevenson

Carl Sandburg's "Sketch"

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Dickinson, Emily. "There is No Frigate Like a Book"

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Poems for Level 2

"Fog," by Carl Sandburg (100 %?)

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Emily Dickinson's "Autumn"

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Carl Sandburg's "Lost"

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Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus"

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William Blake's "London"

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Poems for Level 3.1

Herford, Oliver, "The Elf and the Dormouse"

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Edgar Fawcett's "To an Oriole"

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Tolkien. "Bilbo's Last Song"

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Joyce Kilmer's "Trees"

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Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice"

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Robert Frost's "Desert Places"

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Poems for Level 3.2

Poe, Edgar Allan, "The Raven" (Selecttion 1)	AK	ToC	-
Selection 2	AK	"	-

Robert Frost's "Revelation"

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Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken"

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Poems for Level 4

Riley, James Whitcombe. "A Dream"

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Donne, John."Holy Sonnet XIV"

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "England in 1819"

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Plays for Analysis

Plays for Level 1

"The Two Holes," from Augusta Stevenson's Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book One

Text of Augusta Stevenson's "The Hare and the Tortoise."	Ex	AK	ToC	IG1
Doc:	Text	Ex	AK

Plays for Level 2

Plays for Level 3.1

Plays for Level 3.2

Plays for Level 4

Just for Fun

Just for Fun for Level 1

Q and A (Puns)

"Terror" (Joke)

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Just for Fun for Level 2

"Kindergarten Crash"

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Women's Locker Room

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Only in America...

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Just for Fun for Level 3.1

Punny Humor

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Tongue Twisters - Ex # 7 ("Which Witch")

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The Blind Pilots

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Tongue Twisters - Ex # 8 ("Canner")

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Tongue Twisters - Ex # 4 ("The Two-Toed Tree-Toad")

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A Fairy

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A New Sign for the Church

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Just for Fun for Level 3.2

Tongue Twisters Ex # 6 (A Fly and a Flee)	AK	ToC	-
This is an excellent short, probably entertaining, review exercise. It includes ellipsed (Imperative) "you"; "so" as a coordinating and as a subordinating conjunction; infinitives as direct objects; and the interjection or direct object option for explaining clauses.

"The Pillsbury Doughboy"

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Just for Fun for Level 4

"A Motorcycle Accident"

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"The Hokey Pokey"

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"A Painter Called Wayne"

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Dilbertisms Ex #1

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Dilbertisms Ex #2

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Nominations for the Chevy Nova Award [Notes]

Ex 1- # 1 - 3	AK	-
Ex 2 - # 4 - 6	AK	-
Ex 3 - # 7 - 9	AK	-

Exercise 2 includes subordinate clauses that function as objects of prepositions, a subject, and direct objects. They all include verbals.