A 1-semester course for grades 8 or 9 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the eleventh in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Thesis Part 2

The Writing & Rhetoric Book 11: Thesis Part 2 Teacher’s Edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher’s notes, and explanations. This teacher’s edition supplies descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should be like for every writing assignment, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 11: Thesis Part 2, students will implement what they learned about writing well-crafted persuasive thesis essays in Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1 and advance those skills by creating dynamic and powerful speeches. A vital part of rhetoric, oratory connects thinking and writing to the indispensable art of public speaking. Students will learn from masters of oratory, past and present, by studying the great speeches of Cicero, Thurgood Marshall, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Malala Yousafzai, among others. When preparing and delivering their speeches, students will utilize the 5 canons of rhetoric and the common topics of invention to help them discover and refine their theses.

Thesis Part 2 is designed to build students’ confidence in public speaking, teaching them the habits of excellent delivery and proper breathing. Incorporating the skills learned throughout the series, students will research, write, and then deliver 3 practice speeches (or declamations) of their own creation in the manner of the traditional branches of rhetoric: judicial, ceremonial, and political. As students gain skill, they will learn to delight in discourse as a way “to enlighten the understanding, please the imagination, move the passion, and influence the will” (George Campbell).

In this 1-semester book, students will learn to:

• write persuasive speeches in the style of a closing argument in a courtroom, a eulogy at a funeral, and the proposal of a law in a legislative body
• refine their writing of theses, topic sentences, and antitheses
• improve their conclusions to extend and enhance their original theses
• strengthen their ability to derive information from texts, organizing and summarizing it in expository paragraphs
• develop an awareness of transitions, tone, and writing style
• practice fluent reading using diverse speech texts
• identify a variety of genres, particularly judicial, ceremonial, and political oration
• interact with well-written texts through discussions and exercises in evaluation and critical thinking
• draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
• strengthen their oratory skills through opportunities for public speaking
• see the relationship between writing and speaking
• use oration as an aid to the process of revisionSee the Support tab above for suggested schedule and product support.

Suggested Schedule
Speech Content Rubric
Speech-Writing Instructions
Resources for Select Audio Recordings

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A 1-semester course for grades 8 or 9 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the eleventh in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Thesis Part 2

In this book, students will implement what they learned about writing well-crafted persuasive thesis essays in Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1 and advance those skills by creating dynamic and powerful speeches. A vital part of rhetoric, oratory connects thinking and writing to the indispensable art of public speaking. Students will learn from masters of oratory, past and present, by studying the great speeches of Cicero, Thurgood Marshall, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Malala Yousafzai, among others. When preparing and delivering their speeches, students will utilize the 5 canons of rhetoric and the common topics of invention to help them discover and refine their theses.

Thesis Part 2 is designed to build students’ confidence in public speaking, teaching them the habits of excellent delivery and proper breathing. Incorporating the skills learned throughout the series, students will research, write, and then deliver 3 practice speeches (or declamations) of their own creation in the manner of the traditional branches of rhetoric: judicial, ceremonial, and political. As students gain skill, they will learn to delight in discourse as a way “to enlighten the understanding, please the imagination, move the passion, and influence the will” (George Campbell).

In this 1-semester book, students will learn to:

• write persuasive speeches in the style of a closing argument in a courtroom, a eulogy at a funeral, and the proposal of a law in a legislative body
• refine their writing of theses, topic sentences, and antitheses
• improve their conclusions to extend and enhance their original theses
• strengthen their ability to derive information from texts, organizing and summarizing it in expository paragraphs
• develop an awareness of transitions, tone, and writing style
• practice fluent reading using diverse speech texts
• identify a variety of genres, particularly judicial, ceremonial, and political oration
• interact with well-written texts through discussions and exercises in evaluation and critical thinking
• draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research
• strengthen their oratory skills through opportunities for public speaking
• see the relationship between writing and speaking
• use oration as an aid to the process of revision

Suggested Schedule
Speech Content Rubric
Speech-Writing Instructions
Resources for Select Audio Recordings

This is a consumable item. For more information on this product’s copyright, please refer to our General FAQ section here.

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1
Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1 Teacher Edition

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Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the tenth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1 (consumable student edition), students will write well-crafted persuasive thesis essays with narrative, descriptive, expository, and comparative elements. The thesis essay is perhaps the most important form of academic writing. In fact, in every major in college, successful exams and term papers depend on excellent thesis writing. Each composition requires strong critical thinking skills, an understanding of audiences and how to “hook” them, and a logical progression of ideas and evidence. The thesis exercise employs all of the skills students have gained in their study of the progymnasmata and adds something more: the consideration and rebuttal of counterarguments. By thinking through opposition to their main ideas, students grow in their ability to think flexibly and to defend their position. In addition, the thesis essay will help students to examine and sustain ideas, two skills much needed in today’s public discourse.

Teacher’s Edition Features:

The Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1 Teacher’s Edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher’s notes, and explanations. This teacher’s edition also contains descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should be like for every writing assignment, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.

Suggested Schedule (PDF)
Scope & Sequence (PDF)

Thesis Part 1 Rubrics (PDF)

New Online Features:

Our new Writing & Rhetoric web pages feature free online content that supplements the curriculum, including:

• Teacher training with author Paul Kortepeter and Writing & Rhetoric educators
• Writing & Rhetoric series overview
• Extra videos and articles on the study of writing

Companion Products

Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Audio CD

The post Writing and Rhetoric: Book 10 – Thesis: Part 1 (Teacher Edition) appeared first on Classical Education Books.

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the tenth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 10: Thesis Part 1 (consumable student edition), students will write well-crafted persuasive thesis essays with narrative, descriptive, expository, and comparative elements. The thesis essay is perhaps the most important form of academic writing. In fact, in every major in college, successful exams and term papers depend on excellent thesis writing. Each composition requires strong critical thinking skills, an understanding of audiences and how to “hook” them, and a logical progression of ideas and evidence. The thesis exercise employs all of the skills students have gained in their study of the progymnasmata and adds something more: the consideration and rebuttal of counterarguments. By thinking through opposition to their main ideas, students grow in their ability to think flexibly and to defend their position. In addition, the thesis essay will help students to examine and sustain ideas, two skills much needed in today’s public discourse.

Student Edition Features:

A 1-semester course for grades 7 or 8 and up

In this book, students will learn to:

• create complex thesis statements
• write thesis essays with an introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion
• sustain arguments for 6 paragraphs
• use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
• incorporate supportive facts and details, including quotations, paraphrases, and allusions
• understand audiences better, “hook” their attention, and consider the purpose for reaching them
• appeal to readers though credibility (ethos) and logic (logos)
• build copiousness
• improve essays using speaking as an aid to revision
• revise essays for redundancies, padded writing, informal tone, dangling modifiers, and faulty predication
• analyze literature excerpts for theme
• annotate texts and narrate them both orally and in summary form
• work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection

Suggested Schedule (PDF)
Scope & Sequence (PDF)

Thesis Part 1 Rubrics (PDF)

New Online Features:

Our new Writing & Rhetoric web pages feature free online content that supplements the curriculum, including:

• Teacher training with author Paul Kortepeter and Writing & Rhetoric educators
• Writing & Rhetoric series overview
• Extra videos and articles on the study of writing

Companion Products

Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Audio CD

The post Writing and Rhetoric: Book 10 – Thesis: Part 1 appeared first on Classical Education Books.

Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Audio CD

The post Writing and Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Audio CD appeared first on Classical Education Books.

A one-semester course for grades 7 or 8 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the ninth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Description & Impersonation

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation (Student Edition), students will be writing well-crafted descriptive and expository compositions. The first part, description, emphasizes the use of vivid language to describe people, nature, and processes. The second part, impersonation, introduces the modes of persuasion as a means of imitating the writing style and outlook of four famous individuals: journalist Nellie Bly, writer Henry Williamson, athlete Jesse Owens, and statesman Winston Churchill. In these compositions, students will be making use of a range of writing skills, including the ability to inform, to describe, to narrate, and to analyze. In this one-semester book, students will learn to:

• • favor vivid words that appeal to the senses in fiction and nonfiction
  • use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
  • appeal to readers through modes of persuasion: emotion (pathos), credibility (ethos), and logic (logos)
  • employ rhetorical devices that show clarity of thought: aetiologia, anthypophora, expeditio, and syllogismus
  • incorporate supportive facts and details
  • annotate and narrate texts with a variety of strategies: oral narration, summary, outline, and modes of persuasion
  • craft an effective plot using conflict and character
  • build copiousness through sentence variety and rhetorical devices, including alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, epistrophe, and anaphora
  • work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection
  • engage in a group discussions that foster critical thinking
  • improve essays using oration as an aid to revision

See the Support tab above for suggested schedule and product support.

This is a consumable item. For more information on this product’s copyright, please refer to the General FAQ section here.

For placement recommendations and other questions, please see FAQ page.

Suggested Schedule (PDF)
Scope & Sequence (PDF)

Description and Impersonation Rubrics (PDF)

Read more about The Method, Philosophy, and the Progymnasmata

Ask the Magister (teacher)

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Audio CD

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A one-semester course for grades 7 or 8 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the ninth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Description & Impersonation

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation (Student Edition), students will be writing well-crafted descriptive and expository compositions. The first part, description, emphasizes the use of vivid language to describe people, nature, and processes. The second part, impersonation, introduces the modes of persuasion as a means of imitating the writing style and outlook of four famous individuals: journalist Nellie Bly, writer Henry Williamson, athlete Jesse Owens, and statesman Winston Churchill. In these compositions, students will be making use of a range of writing skills, including the ability to inform, to describe, to narrate, and to analyze. In this one-semester book, students will learn to:

• • favor vivid words that appeal to the senses in fiction and nonfiction
  • use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
  • appeal to readers through modes of persuasion: emotion (pathos), credibility (ethos), and logic (logos)
  • employ rhetorical devices that show clarity of thought: aetiologia, anthypophora, expeditio, and syllogismus
  • incorporate supportive facts and details
  • annotate and narrate texts with a variety of strategies: oral narration, summary, outline, and modes of persuasion
  • craft an effective plot using conflict and character
  • build copiousness through sentence variety and rhetorical devices, including alliteration, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, epistrophe, and anaphora
  • work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection
  • engage in a group discussions that foster critical thinking
  • improve essays using oration as an aid to revision

See the Support tab above for suggested schedule and product support.

This is a consumable item. For more information on this product’s copyright, please refer to the General FAQ section here.

For placement recommendations and other questions, please see FAQ page.

Suggested Schedule (PDF)
Scope & Sequence (PDF)

Description and Impersonation Rubrics (PDF)

Read more about The Method, Philosophy, and the Progymnasmata

Ask the Magister (teacher)

Companion Products

Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 9: Description & Impersonation, Audio CD

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison CD Audio

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A one-semester course for grades 6 or 7 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the eighth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Comparison

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison, students will be writing well-crafted, six-paragraph expository essays comparing two subjects. Comparisons can be made between people, historical events, ideas, inventions, animals, foods—just about anything, really. The purpose of these essays is to analyze two subjects and use this comparison to demonstrate similarities and differences between them. In these essays, students will be making use of a range of writing skills, including the ability to inform, to describe, to narrate, and to analyze.

In this one-semester book, students will learn to:

• Compare subjects of American history from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression of the 1930s
• Use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
• Create analogies for powerful appeals to emotion
• Incorporate supportive facts, details, and quotations
• Annotate texts and write brief narrative overviews
• Craft effective conclusions that encourage curiosity for future study
• Work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection
• Build copiousness through sentence variety and rhetorical devices, including analogy, simile, metaphor, chiasma, hypophora, parallelism, and anastrophe
• Engage in group discussions that foster critical thinking
• Improve essays using oration as an aid to revision

The Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Teacher’s Edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher’s notes, and explanations. This teacher’s edition also contains descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should be like for every writing assignment, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.

For placement recommendations and other questions, please see Academic Press’ FAQ page.

Suggested Schedule (PDF)
Scope & Sequence (PDF)

Comparison Rubric (PDF)

Read more about The Method, Philosophy, and the Progymnasmata

Online Course Available Here!

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Teacher’s Edition
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A one-semester course for grades 6 or 7 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the award-winning Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. This is the eighth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Comparison

In Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison (Student Edition), students will be writing well-crafted, six-paragraph expository essays comparing two subjects. Comparisons can be made between people, historical events, ideas, inventions, animals, foods—just about anything, really. The purpose of these essays is to analyze two subjects and use this comparison to demonstrate similarities and differences between them. In these essays, students will be making use of a range of writing skills, including the ability to inform, to describe, to narrate, and to analyze.

In this one-semester book, students will learn to:

• Compare subjects of American history from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression of the 1930s
• Use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
• Create analogies for powerful appeals to emotion
• Incorporate supportive facts, details, and quotations
• Annotate texts and write brief narrative overviews
• Craft effective conclusions that encourage curiosity for future study
• Work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection
• Build copiousness through sentence variety and rhetorical devices, including analogy, simile, metaphor, chiasma, hypophora, parallelism, and anastrophe
• Engage in group discussions that foster critical thinking
• Improve essays using oration as an aid to revision

This is a consumable item. For more information on this product’s copyright, please refer to Academic Press’ General FAQ section here.

For placement recommendations and other questions, please see Academic Press’ FAQ page.

Suggested Schedule (PDF)
Scope & Sequence (PDF)

Comparison Rubric (PDF)

Read more about The Method, Philosophy, and the Progymnasmata

Online Courses Available Here!

Companion Products

Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Teacher’s Edition
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison CD Audio

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 7: Encomium & Vituperation
Writing & Rhetoric Book 7: Encomium & Vituperation Teacher’s Edition

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