There are three errors in books published
before November 5, 2007.
Lesson 7
Teacher’s Guide, pp. 11-12 and p.
50. Please use the following biography instead of the one in the book: James
Baldwin was born in Indiana in 1841 and lived until 1925.His
childhood was marked by infrequent schooling and a limited access to
books.Still, his father had a “library”
that consisted of two shelves of books.These books were precious to James, and developed a love of literature
in him that lasted a lifetime.He grew
up to become first a teacher, founding and improving many schools in Indiana.During this time he began writing.Some of the books he wrote were for teachers,
but most of them were books of stories for children.He loved to re-tell old classics, and by
doing this he made exciting moral tales accessible to students all over the
country and helped many children develop the same love of reading that he had
fostered in himself so many years before.In 1887 Baldwin moved east to join the
education department of Harper & Brothers, and later the American Book
Company.While editing numerous
textbooks, he continued writing.At one
time it was said that he had either written or edited at least half of all the
textbooks being used in schools across the country!
Student Workbook p.34, Teacher's Guide, p. 116. In the text of the story of "Julius Caesar" written by James Baldwin, there is an extra comma in the first sentence of the thrid paragraph. The sentence originally reads: "Once when Caesar was passing through a little country village, all the men, women, and children of the place, came out to see him." The comma after the word "place" should be removed so that the sentence reads: "Once when Caesar was passing through a little country village, all the men, women, and children of the place came out to see him."
Student Workbook p. 39, Teacher's Guide p. 121. The same sentence is repeated for Punctuation Practice in #2. Remove the same comma after the word "place."
Writing Tales Level Two
Lesson 8
Student Workbook p. 67, Teacher's Guide p. 173. First section, sentence #5: "Was the mother afraid of the cruel Egyptians?" "Afraid" is incorrectly identified as an action verb. Replace the sentence with: "His mother hid him from the cruel Egyptians." Students should underline "hid" as the action verb and add a period to the end of the sentence.
Student Wordbook p. 67, Teacher's Guide p. 173. Second section, #5. "Go" should also be underlined as a verb.
Lesson 9
Teacher's Guide p. 18. First sentence, second paragraph. "Rough Draft" should be "Final Draft."
Teacher's Guide p. 70. Ask the students to take out their Final Drafts of "Moses and the Bulrushes," not "The Doll in the Grass."
Lesson 10
Teacher's Guide p. 196. Second section, second line: "appeared" is incorrectly identified as a State of Being Verb (SB.) Label it as an Action Verb (AV) instead.
Lesson 12
Student Workbook p. 106, Teacher's Guide p. 212. Fourth section, "Circle the adjectives that tell us what kind," sentence #2: replace "frightened" with "afraid." Students should circle, "afraid."
Teacher's Guide page 216. The circles for sentence #s 4 and 5 are off. They should be around the following words: #4: a, small, the, the broom, the, old, her. #5: One, the, little, the, her, building, her (before father.)
Lesson 16
Teacher's Guide p. 250. First section, #17: "too" is incorrectly identified as an Adjective (AJ.) It should be marked as an Adverb (Ad.)
Lesson 23
Student Workbook p. 204, Teacher's Guide p. 310. The sentence at the top of the page should read, "His wife and little children wept, and his sons begged him not to leave them again."
Writing Tales Level Two Teacher's Guide in books printed and purchased before March 1, 2008
Page 197, line 3 of the student's exercise, the phrase "come to blows" is incorrectly identified as an infinitiveverb. This is instead a prepositional phrase,
and therefore should not be marked
in this exercise.
Writing Tales Level Two in books printed and purchased
before April 24, 2008
Lesson 23, in the text of “The Story of Regulus” (Student Workbook, p. 203 and
Teacher’s Guide, p. 309) there is a paragraph missing.This should be the eighth paragraph in the story, and the third paragraph from the top of the page.
The text of the
paragraph that is missing is as follows:
“Very
well,” said Regulus.“I promise you that
if they will not make peace, I will come back to prison.”
Adding in this
paragraph will make the Outlining Exercise on pages 210-213 of the Workbook
work out correctly, with 18 total paragraphs in the story.
