Below is more detailed, though far from complete, raw data tracking Marko's daily penmanship practice, on which the discussion in Chapter 2: Enriched is Better than Impoverished is based. Such data might be of particular use to anyone interested in estimating such statistics as the average volume written per day, the average time spent in such writing, and the progress that can be expected from writing that volume and from spending that time — estimates essential in deciding whether to welcome such penmanship practice into contemporary classrooms.
The conclusions that may be expected from a close examination of the data below is that the daily volume written is modest, the time spent is trivial, and the progress expected, though imperceptible from day to day, nevertheless accumulates over longer intervals so as to propel the student toward 99th percentile standing on all measures of language competence.
VOLUME 1 |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 1
Age 05:00 Grade K:Sep
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee |
"Grade K:Sep" designates the first month (Sep for September) of Marko's Kindergarten year (K).
As can be seen on p. 1 of Marko's first exercise book, the uppermost line presents a model that Marko imitates for the rest of the page. A few of the characters below the top line may also be teacher-written exemplars, often distinguished by being circled, and usually positive to show what should be striven for but sometimes negative to show what should be avoided.
Marko writes two lines on Sep 22, four lines on Sep 23, skips Sep 24 and 25, then writes three lines on Sep 26, from which it may be expected that the volume written may turn out to average less than two lines daily, and that the time required may turn out to average less than five minutes.
The much later dates of the bottom two lines on p. 1 resulted from — one may guess — Marko's returning to p. 1 to write on formerly-abandoned blank space so as to make available for simultaneous comparison how much progress he had made over the intervening seven months, but not succeeding as well as he had hoped because of the awkwardness of writing at the very bottom of a page that is raised well above the surface of the table because held within a thick notebook, and also because the pen sometimes ran right off the bottom of the page, and also by running out of room on the right edge of the page because of having to place the date on the same line as the alphabet.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 2
Age 05:00 Grade K:Sep
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 3
Age 05:00 Grade K:Sep
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 4
Age 05:00 Grade K:Oct
Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 5
Age 05:00 Grade K:Oct
Ee Ff Gg |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 6
Age 05:00 Grade K:Oct
go to bed |
One may guess that the instructor switched to meaningful statements because doing nothing but the alphabet seemed too impoverished.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 9
Age 05:01 Grade K:Oct
Once |
And if meaningful statements are preferred, then why not ones coming from a narrative, in fact a narrative that Marko was reading with his family — the fairy tale of Rapunzel which starts like so:
Once upon a time there lived a man and his wife. They had all that they wanted in the world except for one thing. For many years, they had longed to have a child whom they could love. Yet no baby was born to them. At the back of their house was a window which looked out over a beautiful garden, full of lovely flowers and fine vegetables. |
At this early stage in Marko's education, "reading with his family" means largely being read to, but occasionally invited to himself read aloud some small portion, if only a word or two, and progressing gradually toward the final goal of reading a proportional share.
The Rapunzel exercise shows a first step toward enriched penmanship, so called because to the skills being built of penmanship and general manual dexterity have been added spelling and grammar, capitalization and punctuation, storytelling and narrative, and as the story describes people with yearnings and frustrations and plans, it might be said to also build skills of understanding human nature which encompasses the two most valuable skills of all — knowing what other people are thinking and what they are likely to do next.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 10
Age 05:01 Grade K:Oct
Once |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 11
Age 05:01 Grade K:Oct
upon |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 12
Age 05:01 Grade K:Oct
a time |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 13
Age 05:01 Grade K:Nov
a time |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 14
Age 05:01 Grade K:Nov
Once upon a time |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 15
Age 05:01 Grade K:Nov
Once upon a time |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 16
Age 05:02 Grade K:Nov
Once upon a time |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 17
Age 05:02 Grade K:Nov
there lived |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 18
Age 05:02 Grade K:Nov
there lived |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 19
Age 05:02 Grade K:Dec
a man and his wife |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 20
Age 05:02 Grade K:Dec
a man and his wife. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 21
Age 05:03 Grade K:Dec
They had all |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 22
Age 05:03 Grade K:Dec
They had all |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 23
Age 05:03 Grade K:Jan
They had all |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 24
Age 05:03 Grade K:Jan
that they wanted |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 25
Age 05:04 Grade K:Jan
that they wanted |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 26
Age 05:04 Grade K:Jan
in the world |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 27
Age 05:04 Grade K:Feb
except for one thing. |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 28
Age 05:04 Grade K:Feb
except for one thing. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 29
Age 05:04 Grade K:Feb
For many years, |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 30
Age 05:04 Grade K:Feb
For many years, |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 31
Age 05:05 Grade K:Feb
they had longed to have |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 32
Age 05:05 Grade K:Feb
they had longed to have |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 33
Age 05:05 Grade K:Mar
to have a child |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 34
Age 05:05 Grade K:Mar
to have a child |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 35
Age 05:05 Grade K:Mar
whom they could love |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 36
Age 05:06 Grade K:Mar
whom they could love. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 37
Age 05:06 Grade K:Mar
Yet no baby was born to them. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 38
Age 05:06 Grade K:Mar
Yet no baby was born to them. |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 39
Age 05:06 Grade K:Mar
Yet no baby was born to them. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 40
Age 05:06 Grade K:Apr
At the back of their house |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 41
Age 05:06 Grade K:Apr
At the back of their house |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 42
Age 05:06 Grade K:Apr
At the back of their house |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 43
Age 05:06 Grade K:Apr
was a window which looked |
Marko
Vol. 1 p. 44
Age 05:06 Grade K:Apr
was a window which looked |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 45
Age 05:07 Grade K:Apr
out over a beautiful garden. |
Marko's last Rapunzel page.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 46
Age 05:07 Grade K:Apr
Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry; Sergeant, approach! |
Page 46, 21-Apr-1984 marks the beginning of Pirates of Penzance exercises.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 47
Age 05:07 Grade K:Apr
Young Frederic was to have led you to death and glory. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 48
Age 05:07 Grade K:Apr
Young Frederic was to have led you to death and glory. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 49
Age 05:07 Grade K:Apr
That is not a pleasant way of putting it. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 50
Age 05:07 Grade K:Apr
That is not a pleasant way of putting it. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 51
Age 05:07 Grade K:May
No matter; he will not so lead you, |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 52
Age 05:07 Grade K:May
for he has allied himself |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 53
Age 05:07 Grade K:May
for he has allied himself |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 54
Age 05:08 Grade K:May
once more with his old associates. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 55
Age 05:08 Grade K:May
He has acted shamefully! |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 56
Age 05:08 Grade K:May
You speak falsely. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 57
Age 05:08 Grade K:May
You speak falsely. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 58
Age 05:08 Grade K:May
You know nothing about it. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 59
Age 05:08 Grade K:May
He has acted nobly. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 60
Age 05:08 Grade K:Jun
Dearly as I loved him before, |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 61
Age 05:08 Grade K:Jun
Dearly as I loved him before, |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 62
Age 05:08 Grade K:Jun
his heroic sacrifice to his sense of duty |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 63
Age 05:08 Grade K:Jun
his heroic sacrifice to his |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 64
Age 05:08 Grade K:Jun
his heroic sacrifice to his |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 65
Age 05:09 Grade K:Jun
to his sense of duty |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 66
Age 05:09 Grade K:Jun
has endeared him to me tenfold. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 67
Age 05:09 Grade K:Jun
He has done his duty. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 68
Age 05:09 Grade K:Jun
I will do mine. Go ye and do yours. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 69
Age 05:09 Grade K:Jun
I will do mine. Go ye and do yours. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 70
Age 05:09 Grade K:Jun
Right oh! This is perplexing. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 88
Age 05:10 Grade K:Aug
When a felon's not engaged in his employment |
It can be seen on p. 88 opposite that Marko is no longer being supplied with a model to be copied, such that all writing on the page is his, except for occasional comments written in by his instructor.
Page 88 shows an eruption of "g" reversal, and p. 89, visible through the partly-transparent paper, another eruption of the same, and also an eruption of "p" reversal.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 93
Age 05:11 Grade K:Aug
Or maturing his felonious little plans |
Eruptions of "c" reversal join a single further eruption of a "p" reversal (uncircled in his fifth line). What may have happened here is that the eruption of a double "c" reversal in line five began to be copied as Marko proceeded, and was not immediately caught by the instructor until Marko had imitated the error a few more times, simply because the instructor was not looking over Marko's shoulder as he worked.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 95
Age 05:11 Grade K:Aug
His capacity for innocent enjoyment |
Just a little further practice begins to eradicate letter reversals.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 99
Age 05:11 Grade K:Aug
Is just as great as any honest man's |
Interest in digits and Roman numerals interrupts Pirates for a while.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 112
Age 05:11 Grade K:Aug
Our feelings we with difficulty smother |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 115
Age 05:11 Grade 1:Sep
When constabulary duty's to be done |
Personal information removed.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 120
Age 05:11 Grade 1:Sep
Ah, take one consideration with another A policeman's lot is not a happy one When the enterprising burglar's not a-burgling |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 124
Age 06:00 Grade 1:Sep
When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 127
Age 06:00 Grade 1:Sep
And listen to the merry village chime |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 131
Age 06:00 Grade 1:Oct
When the coster's finished jumping on his mother |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 132
Age 06:00 Grade 1:Oct
When the coster's fini ... You told me you were fair as gold! |
Marko begins writing from Policeman's Lot as on the previous page, but breaks off in mid-word, switching instead to "You told me you were fair as gold!" which is from a different Pirates of Penzance episode — Faithless Woman! — whose libretto-penmanship-video are available on a supplementary web page, together with a third Pirates of Penzance libretto-penmanship-video segment — Apprentice to a Pirate.
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 135
Age 06:00 Grade 01:Oct
You told me you were fair as gold! And, master, am I not so? |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 147
Age 06:00 Grade 01:Oct
And now I see you're plain and old. I am sure I am not a jot so. Upon my innocence you play. I'm not the one to plot so. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 151
Age 06:01 Grade 01:Oct
Your face is lined, your hair is grey. It's gradually got so. |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 155
Age 06:01 Grade 01:Oct
Faithless woman, to deceive me, I who trusted so! |
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Marko
Vol. 1 p. 156
Age 06:01 Grade 01:Nov
Master, master, do not leave me! Hear me, ere you go! |
VOLUME 2 |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 1
Age 06:02 Grade 01:Nov
When Frederic was a little lad He proved so brave and daring, |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 2
Age 06:02 Grade 01:Nov
His father thought he'd 'prentice him To some career seafaring. I was, alas! his nurserymaid, And so it fell to my lot |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 3
Age 06:02 Grade 01:Nov
To take and bind the promising boy Apprentice to a pilot – |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 5
Age 06:02 Grade 01:Dec
A life not bad for a hardy lad, Though surely not a high lot, Though I'm a nurse, you might do worse Than make your boy a pilot. |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 7
Age 06:03 Grade 01:Dec
I was a stupid nurserymaid, On breakers always steering, And I did not catch the word aright, Through being hard of hearing; |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 11
Age 06:03 Grade 01:Jan
Mistaking my instructions, Which within my brain did gyrate, I took and bound this promising boy Apprentice to a pirate. |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 13
Age 06:04 Grade 01:Jan
A sad mistake it was to make And doom him to a vile lot. |
Toward the bottom of the page, Marko preferred to skip the last two lines of Apprentice to a Pilot, and turned his attention to a sentence from John Reade's The Cloister and the Hearth, which his family was at the time reading together:
Not a day passes over the earth but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows. |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 20
Age 06:04 Grade 01:Feb
Three more sentences from Cloister and the Hearth:
He sprang with one bound into the kitchen, and there leaned on his axe, spitting blood and teeth and curses. |
The good duke shut him up in prison, in a cell under ground, and the rats cleaned the flesh off his bones in a night. |
To display her teeth, she laughed indifferently at gay or grave, and from ear to ear. |
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Marko
Vol. 2 p. 27
Age 06:05 Grade 01:Feb
Evidence that in March of Marko's Grade 1 year, the family is reading J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit:
Far over the Misty Mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the pale enchanted gold. |
The Cloister and the Hearth is still available to draw on when a particularly short penmanship sentence is wanted:
But the male mind resisted this crusher. |
VOLUME 3 |
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Marko
Vol. 3 Cover
Age: 06:09 Grade 1:Jun
Although Volume 3 does begin while Marko is still in Grade 1, we will not see his next exercise until p. 71 when he is three years and two months older than the previous exercise page above, and when he will be writing cursively, and when Pirates of Penzance will have been long ago replaced by other sources of material.
Taped to the cover is a cautionary statement, its signature so illegible as to have to be guessed at, and its source forgotten:
My first-grade teacher, Sr. Miriam Francis, warned me to keep up with my penmanship — or I'd regret it someday. Turns out she was right.
M. McGarth
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Marko
Vol. 3 p. 71
Age 09:07 Grade 04:Apr
Years have flown. Marko writes in Marko
Vol. 3 in cursive.
G. K. Chesterton writing on Charles Dickens:
It is in private life that we find the great characters. They are too great to get into the public world. |
At the bottom of the page is indication that the family is reading Les Misérables, in translation of course.
M. Leblanc's whole person was expressive of candid and intrepid confidence. |
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Marko
Vol. 3 p. 73
Age 09:08 Grade 04:May
More from Les Misérables, but with a twist — Marko introduces two jokes.
First joke: following Victor Hugo's "This is a law", Marko inserts "bill 45 signed by Abraham Lincoln".
Second joke: Marko puns "prodigal" into "pro-de Gaulle".
And, in proportion as labor diminishes, needs increase. This is a law. Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal and slack; the unstrung mind cannot hold life within close bounds. (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables) |
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Marko
Vol. 3 p. 77
Age 09:09 Grade 4:Jun
Morton J. Cronin's Vocabulary 1000 again, teaching the synonymy of gloomy and cast down with dejected, demoralized, and depressed.
The page serves mainly to illustrate that Marko is choosing his own material to copy, and that he is able to produce episodes of high-quality cursive script throughout Grade 4.
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Marko
Vol. 3 p. 78
Age 09:09 Grade 4:Jun
Much of this page is from Morton J. Cronin's Vocabulary 1000, teaching the words arrogant, haughty, supercilious; progression, regression, retrogression; and ad hominem.
It is possible that Marko's heavy scribbling is retraction of jokes that he thought better of.
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Marko
Vol. 3 p. 81
Age 09:11 Grade 04:Aug
The first entry is from Morton J. Cronin, Vocabulary 1000:
Government boards which are not courts but which subpoena witnesses, hold hearings, and perform other judicial functions are quasi-judicial boards. |
Next is more from Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, abbreviated probably the sooner to get through the day's exercise:
She sprang off the bed, and remained standing for a moment, her hair in disorder, her nostrils dilating, her mouth half open, her fists clenched and drawn back. |
Of primary interest on this page is the quote at the bottom about Corsican justice, from the biography, Napoleon, by Vincent Cronin:
Under Genoese rule justice had been venal, so the Corsicans had taken the law into their own hands and evolved a kind of barbarian justice: revenge. |
The Corsican-justice quote is significant because of its indication that although History is not much spoken of in a description of the TwelveByTwelve pilot study, it was being pursued in the background, as for example in the reading of the Napoleon biography, and also of other biographical and historical works, most notable among which being George Orwell's Animal Farm, which was studied in particular detail, and with its parallels to the Russian Revolution being noted.
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Marko
Vol. 3 p. 82
Age 09:11 Grade 05:Sep
Marko has been prepping for UBC Chemistry 103, which is about to commence, and therefore switches to practicing passages out of his Chemistry text. Penmanship was being increasingly neglected at that time — for example, between 18-Jul-1988 and 24-Aug-1988, there are no entries. These chemistry passages are the last penmanship exercises that Marko ever wrote. The deterioration in quality may have resulted from feeling that penmanship is a childhood exercise being now supplanted by UBC Chemistry, among other things. Quality more generally might have suffered from it never having been anticipated that the penmanship workbooks would someday go on public display. That Marko can write well when he tries is evidenced by the better of his Age 9 efforts.
The chief reason for reproducing this terminal page, though, is Marko's joke. Across the top of the heading "Law of Conservation of Mass" he has scrawled "I did not know mass could talk"! This recalls his earlier changing Victor Hugo's "Man, in a state of revery, is generally prodigal" to "Man, in a state of revery, is generally pro-de Gaulle". And why not? Was not Marko's rich education teaching him humor alongside all the other things? Did not within practically every line of Pirates of Penzance lurk a joke?
VOLUME 4 |
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Marko
Vol. 4 Lessons 43 & 44
Age 06:05 Grade 01:Feb
When the saboteur of education is confronted with the command to teach the writing of the letters "g" and "p", he would regard as anathema having the students write
"While Gregory Gogol grazed a gaggle of gray geese in Glasgow, Peter Piper was picking a peck of pickled peppers in Papua".
The saboteur prefers to impoverish the exercise down to a writing of only the lower-case "g" and "p", and if the inclusion of words is forced upon him, he permits only their minimal appearance as disconnected words, favoring particularly words that the student is unlikely to ever hear or read or use himself, like "gig" and "pip", and he presents these words undefined and unexampled in use, and therefore devoid of power to either enlighten or amuse.
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Marko
Vol. 4 Lesson 92
Age 06:10 Grade 01:Jul
And, reasons the saboteur, when progression to a higher level is unavoidable, then for as long as possible let it be to no more than the level of disconnected words, thus delaying the learning of grammar and syntax, and all manner of higher things that children are better off not knowing.
UNBOUND |
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Kirsten
Unbound
Age 12:00 Grade 06:May
Manual dexterity inevitably can be discovered to come with multiple manifestations. On the unbound page opposite, we see that Kirsten has the best handwriting, and we have seen on the TwelveByTwelve Pilot Study page at Kirsten draws hand and assembles foot that she is also the best artist.
"To crown all" is from Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862; "Badness you can get easily" is from Hesiod, Works and Days, around 700 BC.
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Alexa
Unbound
Age 11:00 Grade 05:May
The only available video of Winston Churchill's "If you will not fight for right" being declaimed happens to be by Kirsten, and can be viewed on the TwelveByTwelve Pilot Study page where it says Kirsten declaims If you will not fight for right.
"This is not what they had aimed at" is from George Orwell's Animal Farm, which book the three TBT students read and studied.
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Marko
Unbound
Age 07:08 Grade 02:May
In addition to documenting penmanship, the unbound page opposite serves as a reminder that Marko had been reading Kenneth Roberts, Northwest Passage, which adds to the list (which will be expanded as fresh documenation is uncovered) of what Marko was reading, and serves as well as a reminder that Marko's historical awareness was being expanded, as Northwest Passage is considered to be a historical novel: "The first half is a carefully researched, day-by-day recreation of the raid by Rogers' Rangers on the Indian village at Saint-François-du-Lac, Quebec (or Saint Francis, to the Americans troops), a settlement of the Abenakis, an American Indian tribe" en.wikipedia.org/~.
A video of Marko reciting this passage by heart can be viewed on the TwelveByTwelve Pilot Study page where it says Marko declaims
Even my short experience with.
AUTHOR | TITLE | YEAR | CLASSIFICATION | MARKO READING BY AGE |
Gilbert and Sullivan | Pirates of Penzance | 1879 | Comic opera | 05:07 |
Charles Reade | The Cloister and the Hearth | 1861 | Historical novel | 06:04 |
J. R. R. Tolkien | The Hobbit Lord of the Rings |
1937 1949 |
Fantasy novel Fantasy novel |
06:05 ? |
George Orwell | Animal Farm 1984 |
1945 1949 |
Allegorical and dystopian novel Dystopian novel |
07:04 11:07 |
Kenneth Roberts | Northwest Passage | 1937 | Historical novel | 07:08 |
Pearl Buck | The Good Earth Sons A House Divided |
1931 1933 1935 |
Historical novel Historical novel Historical novel |
07:11 to 08:10 07:11 to 08:10 07:11 to 08:10 |
O. E. Rölvaag | Giants in the Earth | 1924 | Novel set in Dakota Territory | 07:11 to 08:10 |
Jack London | Call of the Wild White Fang |
1903 1906 |
Novel set in Yukon Novel set in Yukon |
07:11 to 08:10 07:11 to 08:10 |
Ernest Hemingway | The Old Man and the Sea | 1952 | Novel set in Cuba | 07:11 to 08:10 |
John Steinbeck | The Pearl The Red Pony Grapes of Wrath |
1947 1933 1939 |
Novel set in Mexico Novel set in California Great Depression novel |
07:11 to 08:10 07:11 to 08:10 11:06 |
Sir Walter Scott | Kenilworth | 1821 | Historical novel | 08:08 |
Victor Hugo | Les Misérables | 1862 | Historical novel | 09:07 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Treasure Island The Black Arrow Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
1883 1888 1886 |
Adventure novel Historical adventure romance novel Victorian Gothic novel |
? ? 10:10 |
Vincent Cronin | Napoleon | 1971 | Biography | 09:11 |
Richard Blackmore | Lorna Doone | 1869 | Romance novel | 10:08 |
Alexander Dumas | The Three Musketeers The Count of Monte Cristo Twenty Years After Man in the Iron Mask The Black Tulip |
1844 1846 1845 1850 1850 |
Historical novel Historical novel Historical novel Historical novel Historical novel |
? ? 10:10 11:01 11:02 |
Molière | The Misanthrope Tartuffe |
1664 1666 |
Satirical play Satirical play |
10:08 10:11 |
Emily Brontë | Wuthering Heights | 1847 | Novel set in Yorkshire | 10:09 |
Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall | Mutiny on the Bounty | 1932 | Historical novel | 10:10 |
William Golding | Lord of the Flies | 1954 | Allegorical novel | 11:01 |
Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | 1813 | Novel of manners | 11:01 |
Josephine Tey | Daughter of Time | 1951 | Detective novel | 11:02 |
Henri Troyat | Catherine the Great | 1977 | Biography | 11:03 |
Allen French | The Story of Grettir the Strong | 1936 | Icelandic saga | 11:03 |
Rudyard Kipling | Kim | 1901 | Novel set in India | 11:08 |
Jules Verne | Journey to the Center of the Earth Around the World in Eighty Days Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea |
1864 1873 1870 |
Adventure novel Adventure novel Adventure novel |
? 11:08 11:11 |
Sigrid Undset | Master of Hestviken | 1927 | Historical novel | 11:09 |
Robert Caro | Means of Ascent | 1990 | Biography | 11:11 |
Edith Nesbit | The Railway Children | 1906 | Espionage novel | 12:00 |
James Randi | The Faith Healers | 1987 | Exposé | 12:00 |
Edgar Rice Burroughs | Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan the Untamed Tarzan the Terrible Tarzan and the Lost Empire |
1912 1919 1921 1928 |
Fantasy novel Fantasy novel Fantasy novel Fantasy novel |
? 12:02 12:03 12:08 |
Date of reading presently undocumented, sorted alphabetically by author: |
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Douglas Adams | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Life, the Universe and Everything |
1985 1980 1982 |
Science-fiction comedy Science-fiction comedy Science-fiction comedy |
? ? ? |
Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | 1850 | Autobiographical novel | ? |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Crime and Punishment | 1866 | Crime novel | ? |
Richard Feynman | Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman Further Adventures of a Curious Character |
1985 1988 |
Autobiography Autobiography |
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A. B. Guthrie, Jr. | The Way West | 1949 | Western novel | ? |
Norton Juster | Phantom Tollbooth | 1961 | Juvenile adventure novel | ? |
W. P. Kinsella | Fencepost Chronicles | 1986 | Humorous short stories | ? |
Bernard Malamud | The Fixer | 1966 | Historical fiction | ? |
Robert K. Massie | Nicholas and Alexandra | 1967 | Biography | ? |
Mary O'Hara | My Friend Flicka Thunderhead Green Grass of Wyoming |
1941 1943 1946 |
Novel set in Wyoming Novel set in Wyoming Novel set in Wyoming |
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Edgar Allen Poe | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1840s | American Mystery and Horror | ? |
Marjorie Rawlings | The Yearling | 1938 | Novel set in Florida | ? |
Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis | 1896 | Historical novel | ? |
Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer Huckleberry Finn |
1876 1885 |
Adventure novel set on Mississippi Adventure novel set on Mississippi |
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Mika Waltari | The Egyptian | 1945 | Novel set in ancient Egypt | ? |
Eric Wilson |
The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma Vancouver Nightmare The Ghost of Lunenburg Manor Vampires of Ottawa The Kootenay Kidnapper Spirit of the Rainforest The Green Gables Detectives Code Red at the Supermall DisneyLand Hostage Murder on the Canadian Terror in Winnipeg Cold Midnight in Vieux Québec Summer of Discovery Unmasking of 'Ksan The Ice Diamond Quest |
1979 1978 1981 1984 1983 1985 1987 1988 1982 1976 1980 1989 1984 1986 1990 |
Young adult fiction | ? |