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Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II Package
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WR3NRT
Grade 4-6
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Description
A one-stop shop! This package includes everything needed (student and teacher book) to complete Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative 2, a one-semester course, PLUS the optional Audio Files featuring the reading of the fables, narratives, legends, myths, and other excerpts presented in the student book. The MP3 audio files add flexibility and can enhance understanding, allowing students to listen or follow along with text, but please note that teacher interaction and discussion is still needed. Upon purchase, the access code and instructions for MP3 files will be emailed to you. The included Student Text (059115) is consumable, so if you have 2 students you will need to purchase another. The included Teacher Edition (059116) is intended to be used in conjunction with the student book and includes a copy of student material with teaching notes, explanations, answer keys, helpful guidance and examples for every assignment. ~Nancie
Publisher's Description of Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II Package
A one-semester course for grades 4 or 5 and up In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has thoughtfully and creatively recovered the proven method of the progymnasmata, a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II (Student Edition) is the third title in this 12-book series.
Full program includes:
Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II (consumable student edition) This book exposes students to new genres of story, including historical narrative and legend. It includes a variety of culturally important examples. All of the skills practiced in Narrative I are extended and new skill sets are introduced, including identifying the difference between fact and opinion and learning to ask the five W's of a historical narrative: who, what, when, where, why. Lessons include:
* How to define and identify types of narrative
* How to outline stories
* How to get a story off the ground
* How the protagonist and antagonist develop the central story conflict
* How to discern the difference between fact and opinion in historical narrative and legend
* How to identify the five W’s of an historical narrative—who, what, when, where, why
* How to summarize a longer narrative in writing
* Rewriting: what happens when you change the point of view and the protagonist
* How to apply storytelling skills
* Elocution skills and oration
* Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II Teacher’s Edition: This teacher’s edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher's notes, and explanations. For every writing assignment, this edition also supplies descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should look like, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.
Category Description for Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II
Includes 11 lessons utilizing fables, historical narratives and legends. Builds on previous skills and covers fact vs. opinion, using the five W's and creating characters.
Details
| Product Format: | Product Bundle |
|---|---|
| Grades: | 4-6 |
| Brand: | Rainbow Resource Center |
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On average, how long would you say one complete lesson takes?
The book assigns work for 4 days a week to give teachers room to 'catch up' and iron out any challenges, but honestly it is pretty easy to do in 3 days/week. They recommend doing grammar one week, and this instruction the next, alternating through the year. All depending on the age and capacity of the student, of course.
I hope this helps!
I have a 6th grader - which writing and rhetoric package should I start with? Will they understand the terms that serve as the foundation if they jump in at grade level?
We started when my daughter was in third at the beginning. Here is what W&R's website says:
Q: Where do I place my student in the Writing & Rhetoric series?
A: Placement in Writing & Rhetoric has to do with the student’s current experience in writing. We first suggest looking through the Table of Contents found in each of the Writing & Rhetoric samples available on our website. Reading through both these and the sample lessons will help you determine a good starting level for your student.
If you have a student in 4th–7th grade and are considering Writing & Rhetoric, the initial identifier of placement is to evaluate whether your student can acknowledge the 5 W’s (who, what, when, where, why) in an essay or is comfortable writing six-paragraph essays. If not, we recommend looking at Book 3: Narrative II. Starting here will provide review from the first two books in the series, as well as more age-appropriate material with longer stories and more thoughtful questions in the lessons.
If your student is confidently working through the two skills mentioned above, we would then suggest looking through Book 5: Refutation and Confirmation. In this book, students begin to support a cause or refute it. This is the beginning mark of persuasive writing (pre-thesis work) and helps them to begin research for an idea they will support in an essay.
Like the Curriculum
Have not used any thing from this publisher yet . I have been looking for something that has a good mix of Classical & Charlotte Mason approaches/methods and this appears to be a good option.
This series came highly recommended, so we are going to give it a try!
using this curriculum regularly. My 12 year old son is loving this and very eager to write. This really does teach him how to write!