Writing & Rhetoric Book 1: Fable – Student Edition – A one-semester course for grades 3 or 4 and up

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A Creative Approach to the Classical Progymnasmata- Think of the progymnasmata as a step by step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. What is an apprentice? This is a young person who is learning a skill from a master teacher. Our students will serve as apprentices to the great writers and great stories of history. Students are incessantly expected to write with no clear model before them.Modern composition scolds traditional writing instruction as rote and unimaginative.It takes imitation to task for a lack of freedom and personal expression.And yet, effective communication from creator to reader at all times requires some sort of form and structure.Many of historys greatest writers learned by imitation.In other words, writing takes the same kind of made up our minds study as ballet or diving.Creativity uses conventional form as a stage or a springboard from which to launch grand jetes and somersaults. Too incessantly students are expected to tackle complex writing assignments without learning the necessary intermediate steps.The assumption is that because most everyone can speak English well enough to be understood, and form letters with a pencil, that everyone should be able to write well.Yet how many of us would expect a child to take a seat at a piano, without piano lessons, and play a concerto?Writing is never automatic.

The Writing & Rhetoric seriesmethod employsfluent reading, careful listening, models for imitation, and progressive steps.It assumes that students learn best by reading excellent, whole-story examples of literature and by growing their skills through imitation. Each exercise is intended to impart a skill (or tool) that can be employed in all kinds of writing and speaking.The exercises are arranged from simple to more complex. Whats more, the exercises are cumulative, meaning that later exercises incorporate the skills acquired in preceding exercises.This series is a step by step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric.

Fable, the first book in the Writing & Rhetoric series, teaches students the practice of close reading and comprehension, summarizing a story aloud and in writing, and amplification of a story through description and dialogue.Students learn how to identify different kinds of stories;resolve the beginning, middle, and end of stories;recognize point of view; and see analogous situations, among other essential tools. The Writing & Rhetoric seriesrecovers aproven method of teaching writing, the usage of fables to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well.This is the first in a series of twelve books that will train students over six years, starting in grades three or four and up.

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