Writing and Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison, Full Program

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 book in a series of twelve books that will train students over six years.
Full Program Includes:
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.In this one-semester book, students will learn to:
Compare subjects of American history from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression of the 1930s
Use topic sentences for organizing paragraphs and information
Create analogies for powerful appeals to emotion
Incorporate supportive facts, details, and quotations
Annotate texts and write brief narrative overviews
Craft effective conclusions that encourage curiosity for future study
Work on delivery in public speaking—volume, pacing, and inflection
Build copiousness through sentence variety and rhetorical devices, including analogy, simile, metaphor, chiasma, hypophora, parallelism, and anastrophe
Engage in group discussions that foster critical thinking
Improve essays using oration as an aid to revision
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 provides descriptions and examples of what excellent student writing should be like for every writing assignment, providing the teacher with meaningful and concrete guidance.
Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison Audio Files These audio files accompany the Writing & Rhetoric Book 8: Comparison book and allow students to engage their sense of hearing and their listening intelligence as Greg Lowe delivers the readings aloud in a thoughtful manner.