Progym #6/Rhetoric/Comp I Description/Thesis/Law/Research Paper
(dual credit through JCCC for those who meet age/grade requirements and pass the Compass test at JCCC)
Two days per week
Prerequisite:
Progym #5 (Encomium/Invective/Comparison/Characterization)
After a review of previous Progym exercises from the various stages, students will review Characterization. This exercise further develops the students’ skills of sequencing and is told as a soliloquy further honing their narrative ability. This particular style is achieved through continued mastery of paraphrase and confining students to an abbreviated word count. The Description stage is primarily concerned with the development of particular styles as the students bring the subject of the exercise vividly into the reader's imagination. Person, places, objects, will serve as topics for in depth description, painting a picture with words.In description a fast paced, free, relaxed style is developed with the inclusion of many figures of description, speech, and thought. This stage allows for creativity and engaging eloquence. Upon completion of Description, students will move to the Thesis and then the Law stages, the final and crowning stages of the Progymnasmata .The Thesis and Law stages of the exercises serve as capstones to the five plus years our students have been learning to write through the Progymnasmata. These exercises hone reasoning skills through the introduction of counter point and resolution providing the students with a plethora of opportunities to create arguments (Invention) using the heads of purpose and to demonstrate arguments using the heads of development. Throughout the year students will add to their treasure trove of rhetorical skills by learning new common topics or lines of argumentation as set out by Aristotle in his Rhetoric. They will also select a topic for a 7-8 page research paper, develop a clear thesis statement, craft it using MLA style, and apply their rhetorical knowledge to writing a clear, engaging, argumentative type paper.
As this class is a college level Composition class students should expect to spend up to 3-4 hours per week on homework.
Benefits of this stage include:
Skills of argumentation
Introduction to the advanced skills of Rhetoric
Ability to write “Qualifying” essays for College Entrance Exams
Introduction to research skills
Instructor: Elaine Selby
Supplies:
+3 ring binder, notebook paper, pencils. Access at home to a computer and printer
Textbooks: Two workbooks from Classical Composition: Description and Thesis/Law. ($12 each, payable to Classical Composition.) Instructor will send out an email when students should purchase these.
An additional text is supplied at no cost to students from JCCC. The text is Writing Today.
(dual credit through JCCC for those who meet age/grade requirements and pass the Compass test at JCCC)
Two days per week
Prerequisite:
Progym #5 (Encomium/Invective/Comparison/Characterization)
After a review of previous Progym exercises from the various stages, students will review Characterization. This exercise further develops the students’ skills of sequencing and is told as a soliloquy further honing their narrative ability. This particular style is achieved through continued mastery of paraphrase and confining students to an abbreviated word count. The Description stage is primarily concerned with the development of particular styles as the students bring the subject of the exercise vividly into the reader's imagination. Person, places, objects, will serve as topics for in depth description, painting a picture with words.In description a fast paced, free, relaxed style is developed with the inclusion of many figures of description, speech, and thought. This stage allows for creativity and engaging eloquence. Upon completion of Description, students will move to the Thesis and then the Law stages, the final and crowning stages of the Progymnasmata .The Thesis and Law stages of the exercises serve as capstones to the five plus years our students have been learning to write through the Progymnasmata. These exercises hone reasoning skills through the introduction of counter point and resolution providing the students with a plethora of opportunities to create arguments (Invention) using the heads of purpose and to demonstrate arguments using the heads of development. Throughout the year students will add to their treasure trove of rhetorical skills by learning new common topics or lines of argumentation as set out by Aristotle in his Rhetoric. They will also select a topic for a 7-8 page research paper, develop a clear thesis statement, craft it using MLA style, and apply their rhetorical knowledge to writing a clear, engaging, argumentative type paper.
As this class is a college level Composition class students should expect to spend up to 3-4 hours per week on homework.
Benefits of this stage include:
Skills of argumentation
Introduction to the advanced skills of Rhetoric
Ability to write “Qualifying” essays for College Entrance Exams
Introduction to research skills
Instructor: Elaine Selby
Supplies:
+3 ring binder, notebook paper, pencils. Access at home to a computer and printer
Textbooks: Two workbooks from Classical Composition: Description and Thesis/Law. ($12 each, payable to Classical Composition.) Instructor will send out an email when students should purchase these.
An additional text is supplied at no cost to students from JCCC. The text is Writing Today.