{"id":27140,"date":"2021-01-13T22:42:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T06:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/?p=27140"},"modified":"2021-03-04T18:16:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T02:16:44","slug":"curriculum-spotlight-writing-with-rhetoric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classic.powertactics.com\/curriculum-spotlight-writing-with-rhetoric\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum Spotlight – Writing and Rhetoric"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There is no tyranny like the blank page, or so the saying goes. If you have taught writing you know that look. The eyes glaze over, heavy sighing ensues, and the pencil drops on the page. What shall we write about? Where shall we start? It is difficult to ask a child to write about something when they don\u2019t have much to fall back on for content.<\/p>\n
What if we did not ask a student to \u201cwrite something, anything!\u201d Instead, spend our time with them reading good stories, fables, poems, and other works that others have written. We tell these stories back to each other, both in summary and with dramatic flair. We spend time understanding the story, and then, while the words are flowing through our minds, pull out the pencil and paper and start transferring thoughts to paper.<\/p>\n
This is the basic idea behind the program Writing and Rhetoric by Classical Academic Press. Writing and Rhetoric starts with Fables. It helps the child to collect their thoughts by narrating passages back which is the initial stage of rhetoric. By filling a child with stories, vocabulary, phrases, the child is learning not only how to write, think and speak, but they will also have a rich body of literature to draw ideas from.<\/p>\n
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, then Writing and Rhetoric does a fine job of flattering great literature.<\/p>\n
by Hester VanBraeden<\/strong><\/p>\n Hester is a second-generation home educating parent who is keenly aware that her own education is not complete, and comfortable that it probably never will be. She has many years of experience with children, books, and curriculum. She loves to travel to worlds and times beyond the present with her children through many books. Hester and her husband have four children and live in the lower mainland of BC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Common Writing Challenges\u00a0 There is no tyranny like the blank page, or so the saying goes. If you have taught writing you know that look. The eyes glaze over, heavy sighing ensues, and the pencil drops on the page. What shall we write about? Where shall we start? It is difficult to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2365,"featured_media":27234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[305],"tags":[399,302,406,405],"yoast_head":"\n