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.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 1
Age 05:00    Grade K:Sep

"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.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 2
Age 05:00    Grade K:Sep

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 3
Age 05:00    Grade K:Sep

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 4
Age 05:00    Grade K:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 5
Age 05:00    Grade K:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 6
Age 05:00    Grade K:Oct

One may guess that the instructor switched to meaningful statements because doing nothing but the alphabet seemed too impoverished.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 9
Age 05:01    Grade K:Oct

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:

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.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 10
Age 05:01    Grade K:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 11
Age 05:01    Grade K:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 12
Age 05:01    Grade K:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 13
Age 05:01    Grade K:Nov

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 14
Age 05:01    Grade K:Nov

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 15
Age 05:01    Grade K:Nov

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 16
Age 05:02    Grade K:Nov

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 17
Age 05:02    Grade K:Nov

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 18
Age 05:02    Grade K:Nov

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 19
Age 05:02    Grade K:Dec

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 20
Age 05:02    Grade K:Dec

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 21
Age 05:03    Grade K:Dec

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 22
Age 05:03    Grade K:Dec

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 23
Age 05:03    Grade K:Jan

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 24
Age 05:03    Grade K:Jan

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 25
Age 05:04    Grade K:Jan

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 26
Age 05:04    Grade K:Jan

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 27
Age 05:04    Grade K:Feb

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 28
Age 05:04    Grade K:Feb

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 29
Age 05:04    Grade K:Feb

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 30
Age 05:04    Grade K:Feb

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 31
Age 05:05    Grade K:Feb

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 32
Age 05:05    Grade K:Feb

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 33
Age 05:05    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 34
Age 05:05    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 35
Age 05:05    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 36
Age 05:06    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 37
Age 05:06    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 38
Age 05:06    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 39
Age 05:06    Grade K:Mar

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 40
Age 05:06    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 41
Age 05:06    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 42
Age 05:06    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 43
Age 05:06    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 44
Age 05:06    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 45
Age 05:07    Grade K:Apr

Marko's last Rapunzel page.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 46
Age 05:07    Grade K:Apr

Page 46, 21-Apr-1984 marks the beginning of Pirates of Penzance exercises.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 47
Age 05:07    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 48
Age 05:07    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 49
Age 05:07    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 50
Age 05:07    Grade K:Apr

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 51
Age 05:07    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 52
Age 05:07    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 53
Age 05:07    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 54
Age 05:08    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 55
Age 05:08    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 56
Age 05:08    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 57
Age 05:08    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 58
Age 05:08    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 59
Age 05:08    Grade K:May

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 60
Age 05:08    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 61
Age 05:08    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 62
Age 05:08    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 63
Age 05:08    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 64
Age 05:08    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 65
Age 05:09    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 66
Age 05:09    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 67
Age 05:09    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 68
Age 05:09    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 69
Age 05:09    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 70
Age 05:09    Grade K:Jun

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 88
Age 05:10    Grade K:Aug

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.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 93
Age 05:11    Grade K:Aug

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.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 95
Age 05:11    Grade K:Aug

Just a little further practice begins to eradicate letter reversals.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 99
Age 05:11    Grade K:Aug

Interest in digits and Roman numerals interrupts Pirates for a while.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 112
Age 05:11    Grade K:Aug

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 115
Age 05:11    Grade 1:Sep

Personal information removed.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 120
Age 05:11    Grade 1:Sep

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 124
Age 06:00    Grade 1:Sep

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 127
Age 06:00    Grade 1:Sep

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 131
Age 06:00    Grade 1:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 132
Age 06:00    Grade 1:Oct

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.

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 135
Age 06:00    Grade 01:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 147
Age 06:00    Grade 01:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 151
Age 06:01    Grade 01:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 155
Age 06:01    Grade 01:Oct

Marko
Vol. 1    p. 156
Age 06:01    Grade 01:Nov

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 1
Age 06:02    Grade 01:Nov

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 2
Age 06:02    Grade 01:Nov

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 3
Age 06:02    Grade 01:Nov

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 5
Age 06:02    Grade 01:Dec

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 7
Age 06:03    Grade 01:Dec

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 11
Age 06:03    Grade 01:Jan

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 13
Age 06:04    Grade 01:Jan

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:

Marko
Vol. 2    p. 20
Age 06:04    Grade 01:Feb

Three more sentences from Cloister and the Hearth:

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:

The Cloister and the Hearth is still available to draw on when a particularly short penmanship sentence is wanted:

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

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:

At the bottom of the page is indication that the family is reading Les Misérables, in translation of course.

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".

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.

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.

Marko
Vol. 3    p. 81
Age 09:11    Grade 04:Aug

The first entry is from Morton J. Cronin, Vocabulary 1000:

Next is more from Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, abbreviated probably the sooner to get through the day's exercise:

Of primary interest on this page is the quote at the bottom about Corsican justice, from the biography, Napoleon, by Vincent Cronin:

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.