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Lesson 5: Serjeant Parsing's Visit to Schoolroom-shire

Directions

Over the two weeks:

• Read or review the lesson each week.
• Complete the assigned enrichment activities for each week.

Synopsis

In this lesson, Serjeant Parsing asks students to count up the number of nouns, pronouns, and articles in his stories.

Enrichment

Activity - Week 1: Tally the Nouns, Pronouns, and Articles

Tally the number of nouns, pronouns, and articles in Serjeant Parsing's story - determine who comes in first, second, and third:

THE FOOLISH MONKEY

• Some sailors belonging to a ship of war had a monkey on board.
• The monkey had often watched the men firing off a cannon, so one day when they were all at dinner he thought he should like to fire it too.
• So he took a match, as he had seen the men do, struck it, put it to the touchhole, and looked into the mouth of the cannon, to see the ball come out.
• The ball did come out, and alas! alas! the poor little monkey fell down dead.

Activity - Week 2: Tally the Nouns, Pronouns, and Articles

Tally the number of nouns, pronouns, and articles - determine who comes in first, second, and third:

• THE CHILDREN'S HOUR (EXCERPT)
• Between the dark and the daylight,
• When the night is beginning to lower,
• Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
• That is known as the Children's Hour.
• ***
• I hear in the chamber above me
• The patter of little feet,
• The sound of a door that is opened,
• And voices soft and sweet.