REVISED EDITION. What if you could learn to write well using a method that had been successful for thousands of years? Writing the Classical Way does just that, teaching ancient writing exercises (the progymnasmata) to pre-rhetoric students. These fourteen exercises help students master each aspect of narrative, expository, and persuasive writing through incremental steps. Writing the Classical Way: Level I Workbook provides exercises to accompany the student text Writing the Classical Way. The models in this volume are primarily taken from classical authors, but masters of the English language are also included. These exercises develop a student's writing abilities through model compositions, pre-writing activities, composition analysis, essay assignments, and much more! With exercises developed and tested in the classroom, Writing the Classical Way: Level I Workbook provides a solid foundation for students wishing to write well.
Developed and tested in the classroom, Writing the Classical Way offers the following: *Complete set of all 14 progymnasmata exercises, Fable to Legislation, in each book of the series. *Emphasis on historical literature and examples. ...
Writing the Classical Way series does just that, teaching ancient writing exercises (the progymnasmata) to pre-rhetoric middle school and high school students.
Writing the Classical Way series does just that, teaching ancient writing exercises (the progymnasmata) to pre-rhetoric middle school and high school students.
Writing the Classical Way III offers the following: *Complete set of all 14 progymnasmata exercises, Fable to Legislation. *Emphasis on historical literature and examples. *Think-It-Through questions to de-mystify the progymnasmata. *Model ...
What's more, the exercises are cumulative, meaning that later exercises incorporate the skills acquired preceding exercises. This series is a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric.
The Core is an important resource that helps parents create ways to incorporate study into daily routines involving the entire family. --Book Jacket.
For every writing assignment, this edition also supplies descriptions and examples of waht excellentstudent writing should look like, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance."
Beginning Outlining
Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.
... on Bellerophon's letters, 167; and command of languages ancient and modern, 101–5; Ronnick's work on, 94, 388n20, 388n21; memoirs of, 106–7; as teacher, 106–7 Scharffenberger, Elizabeth, 314, 412n6 Schiavone, Aldo, 380n19 Schiller, ...