Poetics & Progym II Teaching Helps: Language Arts for Upper School

By Katherine P. Weitz

Teaching Helps accompanies Cottage Press Poetics & Progym II . Includes notes for teaching the course, and an answer key for exercises that warrant it. Poetics & Progym II is a composition, grammar, and rhetoric course structured around Virgil's Aeneid , Shakespeare's Macbeth , Plutarch's Lives , and the confirmation, refutation, common-place, encomium, invective, and comparison exercises of the progymnasmata. Composition lessons focus on advancing expository and persuasive writing. Grammar lessons are applied using selections from classic literature and poems, including challenging sentence diagramming lessons. Also includes studies in poetry, literary analysis, figures of speech, and figures of description. This is the second in a series of three books for 8th grade and up. Poetics & Progym II Teaching Helps is a recommended accompaniment; it includes an extensive Answer Key. Visit cottagepresspublishing.net/poetics-and-progym for additional information. Cottage Press is dedicated to the classical liberal arts, which set a proper course for a lifetime pursuit of wisdom by teaching the student to think, to love learning, and to passionately desire truth, beauty, and goodness. Toward that end, our Language Arts books are dedicated to developing "ready scribes" (Psalm 45:1) - scholars who are able to pen pleasing and winsome themes, flowing from hearts of virtue.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DCPHB51R
• ISBN13: 9798333210678
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 193 Pages
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"