Language Arts

After a brief review of manuscript style handwriting, Writing with Prayer teaches the basics of cursive-style penmanship. Students learn capital and lower-case letters, and practice by writing words, phrases, and short sentences. This text uses a Zaner-Bloser cursive style, with the exception of the “k,” “Q,” and comma. Practice lines are 3/8" in height. Recommended for 2nd grade. From Christian Liberty Press. Learn More

The last of Christian Liberty’s penmanship series, Writing with Prayer continues to develop cursive writing skills through the use of games, practice sentences, and activities. Numerous writing exercises are also included to prepare students for cursive writing in real and scholastic situations. This text uses a Zaner-Bloser cursive style, with the exception of the “k,” “Q,” and comma. Practice lines are 3/8" in height. Recommended for 4th grade. Published by Christian Liberty Press. Learn More

Writing with Grace continues to develop cursive writing skills by focusing on the most difficult capital and lower-case letters. In addition to repetition, games, practice sentences, and activities are used to reinforce these skills. Manuscript handwriting is also reviewed through practical applications, such as filling out various registration forms. This text uses a Zaner-Bloser cursive style, with the exception of the “k,” “Q,” and comma. Practice lines are 3/8" in height. . Recommended for 3rd grade. From Christian Liberty Press. Learn More

Writing with Diligence is the second of two courses devoted to manuscript (printing) style handwriting. Students continue to develop proper penmanship skills by practicing capital and lower-case letters, basic punctuation, and the numbers 1-10. Words and simple sentences are also introduced. This text uses a modified version of the Palmer method. Practice lines are 1/2" in height. Recommended for 1st grade. From Christian Liberty Press. Learn More

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.

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

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Teacher’s Edition

This 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.

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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.

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Rhetoric Book 7: Encomium & Vituperation Teacher s Edition includes the complete student text, as well as answer keys, teacher s notes, and explanations.

This teacher s edition provides descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should be like for every writing assignment, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.

What is an encomium and a vituperation?

An encomium is a short essay praising the virtues of someone or something; a vituperation is a critical essay that reveals faults.

In addition to guiding students through the writing of their own essays of praise and criticism, this book also leads your students step by step through a research project about a fascinating person.

While students are learning about a remarkable life, they will also be learning how to learn.

This research is achievable and the natural next step as students gain the skills of reading a variety of texts on a research subject, taking notes, creating an essay from these notes, and citing their sources

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 6: Commonplace is a one semester course for grades 5 or 6 and up.

It is the sixth of twelve one-semester books in the Writing & Rhetoric series, a creative approach to the classical progymnasmata.

This level continues the development of the art of persuasive writing and oration.

Students will learn to create six-paragraph essays that are arguments against the common vices of people and arguments in favor of common virtues.

For example, cowardice and boasting are criticized while courage and humility are commended.

In addition to practicing skills they learned in earlier books, students will learn to: Write six-paragraph essays Support a thesis statement Argue against certain vices Argue for certain virtues Use comparison and contrast Introduce and conclude an essay Use a rhetorical device known as the contrary Invent soliloquies to support an argument Deliver writing orally Revise writing

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A one semester course for grades 5 or 6 and up.

This is the fifth in a series of twelve books that will train students over six years.

A refutation is a short essay that attacks certain parts of a narrative.

In this book, students will learn to identify and refute, or criticize, parts of a narrative that are unbelievable, improbable, unclear, or improper.

A confirmation is a short essay that defends certain parts of a narrative.

When students see parts of a narrative that are believable, probable, clear, or proper, they will confirm them.

After learning to identify the parts of a story that can be attacked or defended, students will practice writing refutations or confirmations using sound arguments to explain their opinions.

Be assured that this exercise of refutation and confirmation is not about taking the magic out of stories.

On the contrary, it is designed to help students love truly good stories even more because they will think about them more deeply.

As students practice refutation and confirmation in this book, they will not only learn to form arguments and express their opinions, but also to find delight in the stories they read. Students will learn to -Write four-paragraph essays-Outline-Refute or confirm parts of stories-Understand comparison and contrast-Introduce and conclude an essay-

Use narrative to further the purpose of exposition-Use direct quotes to support an argument-Deliver writing orally-Revise writing What is the Progymnasmata? Think of the Progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric. In the Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking. Writing & Rhetoric: Refutation & Confirmation provides students with forms and models of excellent writing that they will imitate as they progress down the path to masterful writing.

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A one-semester course for grades 5 or 6 and up

Think of the progymnasmata as a step-by-step apprenticeship in the art of writing and rhetoric.

In the Writing & Rhetoric series, author Paul Kortepeter has recovered this proven method of teaching writing in conjunction with critical thinking and speaking.

Writing & Rhetoric: Refutation & Confirmation (Student Edition) provides students with forms and models of excellent writing that they will imitate as they progress down the path to masterful writing.

This is the fifth in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years.

Refutation & Confirmation A refutation is a short essay that attacks certain parts of a narrative.

In this book, students will learn to identify and refute, or criticize, parts of a narrative that are unbelievable, improbable, unclear, or improper.

A confirmation is a short essay that defends certain parts of a narrative.

When students see parts of a narrative that are believable, probable, clear, or proper, they will confirm them.

After learning to identify the parts of a story that can be attacked or defended, students will practice writing refutations or confirmations using sound arguments to explain their opinions.

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II 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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Writing & Rhetoric Book 3: Narrative II (Student Edition) is the third book in this 12-book series.

Narrative II exposes students to new genres of story, including historical narrative and legend.

It includes a variety of culturally important examples.

All of the skills practiced in Narrative I are extended and new skill sets are introduced, including identifying the difference between fact and opinion and learning to ask the five W’s of a historical narrative: who, what, when, where, why.

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Writing & Rhetoric Book 2:Narrative 1 Teachers 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.

Classical Academic Press Educators will find all curricula by Classical Academic Press to be created with four important attributes.

Each product is classical, creative, relevant, and easy to use.

As our company name implies, you will find that we publish classical books and media, seeking to acquaint students with the best that has been thought and said.

We also design and present our products with creativity and zest, from beautiful illustrations to engaging storytelling, ensuring that the classical subjects being taught are anything but boring.

Areas we publish in include: -Latin -Ancient Greek -Logic -Bible, Old & New Testament -The Art Of Poetry -Spanish

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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;determine the beginning, middle, and end of stories;recognize point of view; and see analogous situations, among other essential tools.

The Writing & Rhetoric series recovers a proven method of teaching writing, using 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.

Narrative, the second book of twelve in the Writing & Rhetoric series, uses parable, myth, and other tales to continue the recovery of the proven method of teaching writing, using various forms of narrative to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well.

This is the second 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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This is the first in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years, starting in grades 3 or 4 and up.

Writing & 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.

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; determine the beginning, middle, and end of stories; recognize point of view; and see analogous situations, among other essential tools.

The Writing & Rhetoric series recovers a proven method of teaching writing, using fables to teach beginning writers the craft of writing well.

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A one-semester course for grades 3 or 4 and up

Students are often 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 writer to reader always requires some sort of form and structure.

Many of history’s greatest writers learned by imitation.

In other words, writing takes the same kind of determined study as ballet or diving.

Creativity uses conventional form as a stage or a springboard from which to launch grand jetés and somersaults.

Too often students are expected to tackle complex writing assignments without learning the necessary intermediate steps.

The Writing & Rhetoric series method employs fluent reading, careful listening, models for imitation, and progressive steps.

 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. 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 is the first in a series of 12 books that will train students over 6 years, starting in grades 3 or 4 and up.

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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.

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In this 1-semester 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

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This workbook is designed to enrich the student's vocabulary and open the way to better reading comprehension. Can be used with Pathway's 8th grade reader, OUR HERITAGE, or any other reading books.

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Teacher 's Edition to accompany the student workbook. It contains answers, tests, and word pronunciations.

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This workbook is designed to enrich the student's vocabulary and open the way to better reading comprehension. It may be used to accompany Pathway's 7th grade reader, SEEKING TRUE VALUES, or may also be used with any reading book.

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Teacher's Edition to accompany the student workbook. It contains answers, tests, and pronunciations.

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Teacher's Edition accompanies the student workbook. It contains answers, tests, and pronunciations.

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