The Student Books provide instruction and examples with plenty of space to write. Includes 10 lessons utilizing fairy tales, myths, and parables. Skills covered include main idea, dialogue, description, and conflict.
A Creative Approach to the Classical Progymnasmata—Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. What is an apprentice? It is a young person who is learning a skill from a master teacher. Our students will serve as apprentices to the great writers and great stories of history.
Students are often expected to write with no clear model before them. Modern composition scolds traditional writing instruction as rote and unimaginative. It takes imitation to task for a lack of freedom and personal expression. And yet, effective communication from writer to reader always requires some sort of form and structure. Many of history's greatest writers learned by imitation. In other words, writing takes the same kind of determined study as ballet or diving. Creativity uses conventional form as a stage or a springboard from which to launch grand jetés and somersaults. Too often students are expected to tackle complex writing assignments without learning the necessary intermediate steps. The assumption is that because most everyone can speak English well enough to be understood, and form letters with a pencil, that everyone should be able to write well. Yet how many of us would expect a child to sit at a piano, without piano lessons, and play a concerto? Writing is never automatic.
The Writing & Rhetoric series method employs fluent reading, careful listening, models for imitation, and progressive steps. It assumes that students learn best by reading excellent, whole-story examples of literature and by growing their skills through imitation. Each exercise is intended to impart a skill (or tool) that can be employed in all kinds of writing and speaking. The exercises are arranged from simple to more complex. What's more, the exercises are cumulative, meaning that later exercises incorporate the skills acquired in preceding exercises. This series is a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric.
Narrative I, the second book of 12 in the Writing & Rhetoric series, uses parable, myth, and other tales to continue the recovery of the proven method of teaching writing, using various forms of narrative to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well. This is the second in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years, starting in grades 3 or 4 and up.
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Includes 10 lessons utilizing fairy tales, myths, and parables. Skills covered include main idea, dialogue, description, and conflict. Both books are about 140 pgs.
| Product Format: | Paperback |
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| Grades: | 3-4 |
| Brand: | Classical Academic Press |
| ISBN: | 9781600512186 |
| Length in Inches: | 11 |
| Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 1.05 |
Yes. I had to slow down a bit with my 5th grader because we were almost done with two levels in one year. And in my opinion the texts are engaging enough to grab the attention of all ages, really focusing on ability.
This book uses classic literature, including proverbs and parables from the Bible. However, they are using it as a literature source not a religious document. The author and material is in no way religious.
My third grader started with book one. It was a good intro to the series. We moved pretty quickly through it. She liked all of the fables. I started my son late in this series, 6th grade, because i didn't know about it sooner. We did bk 1, too. I think it is a fun and less intimidating way to start writing (from someone with a writer and a nonwriter!).
Curriculum for Lit Comp 2
Wanted my 4th grade daughter to benefit from a writing program (writing and rhetoric) which I have come to really like and appreciate. My middle school son used Books 5 and 6 in a co-op class in the…
Classical School of Dallas curriculum
We love this series. I used it with my oldest and am now going through with my middle.