Writing With Skill combines time-tested classical techniques-the limitation and analysis of great writers-with innovative contemporary insights.
[Week 19] Strickland, Agnes. Life of Mary, Queen of Scots, Vol. 1. London: George Bell and Sons, 1888. [Week 17] Symonds, John Addington. ... New York: D. Appleton, 1902. [Week 19] Timbs, John. Eccentricities of the Animal Creation.
You can do this by putting two phrases in the same sentence (for example, “Tom Sawyer didn't want to go to school” and “Decided to pretend his sore toe hurt” could be combined into “Tom Sawyer didn't want to go to school, ...
Hossell, Karen Price. The Emancipation Proclamation. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2006. ... First in Flight: The Wright Brothers in North Carolina. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 2003. Kops, Deborah. Machu Picchu.
The student's answer might resemble one of the following: King John hung a bell in the city of Atri so that anyone who needed justice could ring it. A piece of hay was tied to the handle. One day, an ancient starving horse pulled on the ...
1155 ) Thomas Aquinas ( 1225-1274 ) Dante Alighieri ( 1265-1321 ) Geoffrey Chaucer ( c . 1340–1400 ) Thomas à Kempis ( 1380–1471 ) Jan van Eyck ( c . 1390–1441 ) Johannes Gutenberg ( c . 1396-1468 ) Sandro Botticelli ( 1444-1510 ) ...
William Bayard Hale, Woodrow Wilson: The Story of His Life (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912). Mr. Wilson is of good height, sturdily built, with square shoulders; he stands erect and on his feet. If you want mannerisms, ...
The workbooks provide lessons, student worksheets, and teacher instructions for every day of writing instruction. Each covers one year of study.
A revised and improved edition of the best-selling elementary writing handbook, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind Susan Wise Bauer lays out a plan for teaching writing that combines the best elements of old-fashioned writing ...
A new series on teaching writing, from the author of The Well-Trained Mind.
Teacher Susan Lunsford shares her best book-based lessons in every subject area.