Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text
Published on 8. October 2013
632 pages
978-1-942968-23-8 (ISBN)
Description
Time-tested classical techniques--the imitation and analysis of great writers--combined with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature.
The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric.
- Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences
- Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect
- Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians
- Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure
- Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry
- Provides practice in research and documentation skills
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Susan Wise Bauer
Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text
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12/2013
The Well-Trained Mind Press
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Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.
