There are many and varied curricula. While we can’t highlight them all, here are a few unique resources we appreciate.
Grammar Stage
The Spalding Method: The Writing Road to Reading language arts program breaks down the English language through phonograms. Through phonograms, the children are then taught how to decode words. The program includes reading, writing, and spelling. The Spalding method is an analytical phonics approach and has training available.
Rummy Roots: Root word cards in Latin or Greek are used in games that teach and reinforce English and classical language study.
Dialectic Stage
The Lost Tools of Writing: While titled as a writing curriculum, this truly is a thinking curriculum. Having already learned the basic forms of essay writing, The Lost Tools of Writing progresses students into persuasive writing. Students use the 5 Common Topics in the development of their writing and learn to incorporate an exordium, schemes and tropes, and much more.
Intermediate Logic, by Canon Press: While the Introductory Logic course is more commonly sited, the Intermediate Logic course tackles propositional logic. The ability to identify arguments that are encountered in writing, the media, or other places and then analyze their structure and validity is a cogent need.
Rhetoric Stage
Classical Conversations’ Rhetoric Games: As students mature in their rhetorical skills, there continues to be room for fine-tuning. Investigate these rhetoric games and employ them in your classroom: Speech Thief – for help eliminating “um” and “uh” language from speaking; Aristotelian Rhetoric – for impromptu speaking using pathos, ethos, and logos; Schemes & Tropes – for practice recognizing rhetorical devices; Rhetorigo – for review of rhetoric vocabulary; and more.
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