Writing and Rhetoric Book 4: Chreia & Proverb – Teacher’s Edition
Writing and Rhetoric Book 4: Chreia & Proverb – Teacher’s Edition, the fourth book of the Writing & Rhetoric series, shifts gears from the style of the previous three levels. In this book, students continue to read about historical figures. However, they will use them as background information for writing six-paragraph essays.
Objectives for this level include the following:
- Exposing students to proverbs, pithy sayings and life stories particularly from the Middle Ages
- Developing students’ appreciation for the usefulness of concise sayings and actions and how these ideas impact their lives
- Introduce students to the expository essay using a six-step outline
- Giving students the opportunity to imitate and reshape proverbs and sayings
- Introducing the idea of paraphrase as well as comparing/contrasting
- Increasing understanding of the flexibility of copiousness of language through sentence manipulation.
- And more!
This teacher’s edition accompanies the sold-separately Writing & Rhetoric Book 4: Chreia & Proverb Student Book. Student pages are reproduced with answers overlaid where applicable. Grey side boxes provide examples, additional clarifications, resources, objectives, sample answers for more open-ended exercises, and other helpful information.
The Writing and Rhetoric Method
The Writing and Rhetoric method employs fluent 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 imparts a skill (or tool) that students can employ in all kinds of writing and speaking. This program arranges exercises from simple to more complex. What’s 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 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. They determine the beginning, middle, and end of stories. Additionally, they recognize point of view. Moreover, they see analogous situations, among other essential tools.
This method recovers a proven method of teaching writing, using fables to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well.
Writing and Rhetoric Book 1: Fable – Teacher’s Edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher’s notes, and explanations. For every writing assignment, this edition also supplies descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should look like, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.
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