Curriculum Reviews: 2015-16
It's that time of year again! We have just four short weeks of school left and all thoughts are turned toward next year, what's worked, what hasn't, what to change, what to keep. From my post last year, this is what my plan was. I'll go through it line by line: Language : - Writing and Rhetoric : Book 2, Narrative and Book 3, Narrative II. Yes. This. These books are excellent. I have been teaching Book 3 in a class setting, and its so much fun to see what each student comes up with for sentence play, rewrites, and just in talking about the stories. These books are based on the progymnasmata method of writing instruction, and so they introduce students to great writing and stories to fill their minds with good examples to draw on. Books 1-2 were very gentle introductions, and Book 3 ramps up the challenge quite a bit. It focuses mostly on stories from the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and the kids have learned a lot abou...