The Encomium & Vituperation audio files are optional and accompany the Writing & Rhetoric Book 7: Encomium & Vituperation. They feature Dr. Christopher Perrin, his wife, Christine Perrin and/or others, reading the fables, myths, historical narratives, and other source material used in the books aloud, to either add an auditory dynamic to your lesson or help auditory learners enhance their understanding of the material. Upon purchase, the access code and instructions will be emailed to you.
Customer will receive an email with access code and instructions to redeem on the Classical Academic Press website.
The Encomium & Vituperation audio files accompany the Writing & Rhetoric Book 7: Encomium & Vituperation book and allow students to engage their sense of hearing and their listening intelligence as Greg Lowe delivers the readings aloud in a thoughtful manner.
This product is offered as a ZIP file containing several MP3 files. MP3 files can be used with most popular music players, such as iTunes.
Fourteen lessons that use encomium (praising a person, thing, or idea and then backing up the praise with solid arguments) and vituperation (speaking against a person, thing, or idea; likewise providing solid arguments). Source materials are important narratives from the Civil War era and the period of westward expansion. Students will be writing well-crafted, six-paragraph persuasive essays and guided through the process of writing a brief biographical research paper.
To reduce my reading aloud
I wanted something to help them know what they needed to do a certain job and this is helpful. It isn't like I had in school (40 years ago) but it is close.