{"id":16,"date":"2008-10-04T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.classicalwriting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/cw-projects-in-the-works-october-2008\/"},"modified":"2012-04-27T20:57:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T00:57:17","slug":"cw-projects-in-the-works-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classicalwriting.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/04\/cw-projects-in-the-works-october-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"CW projects in the works, October 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Currently we have more than a few projects going at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>I just completed CW Herodotus Core book for beta testing. It is a book that focuses on Judicial rhetoric (the rhetoric of the court room). It teaches kids to argue for and against issues. It is a &#8216;fun&#8217; book, I think because it stretches a high schooler to really look at issues, to really look and see that many things have two sides and that while there is truth, there are times when two person&#8217;s different perceptions of the same even can make it difficult to discern what really happened.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the Herodotus Table of Contents:<span style=\"color:Purple;\"><br \/><i><br \/><b>Section One: Refutation and Confirmation 3<br \/><\/b>Pre-lesson &#8211; Introduction to Herodotus&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;3<br \/>Lesson 1.1 &#8211; Refutation and Confirmation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;5<br \/>Lesson 1.2 &#8211; Introduction to Apollo and Daphne&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;8<br \/>Lesson 1.3 &#8211; Ancient Essay on Refutation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;11<br \/>Lesson 1.4 &#8211; Ancient Essay on Confirmation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;15<br \/>Lesson 1.5 &#8211; The Ancient Greek Justice System&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;19<br \/>Lesson 1.6 &#8211; Slant Narratives&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;23<br \/>Lesson 1.7 &#8211; Rhetorical Occasion&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;27<br \/>Lesson 1.8 &#8211; Audiences and Refutation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;31<br \/>Lesson 1.9 &#8211; Writing a Paragraph&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;34<br \/>Lesson 1.10 &#8211; Clarity &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;40<br \/>Lesson 1.11 &#8211; Writing a Paragraph on Clarity&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;45<br \/>Lesson 1.12 &#8211; Credibility&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;47<br \/>Lesson 1.13 &#8211; Writing a Paragraph on Credibility&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;51<br \/>Lesson 1.14 &#8211; Possibility and Plausibility&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;53<br \/>Lesson 1.15 &#8211; Writing a Possibility and Plausibility Paragraph&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;59<br \/>Lesson 1.16 &#8211; Propriety&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;64<br \/>Lesson 1.17 &#8211; Writing a Paragraph on Propriety&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;70<br \/>Lesson 1.18 &#8211; Expediency&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;72<br \/>Lesson 1.19 &#8211; Writing a Paragraph on Expediency&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;82<br \/>Lesson 1.20 &#8211; More about Narrative Writing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;83<br \/>Lesson 1.21 &#8211; Refutation Analysis&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;87<br \/><b>Section Two: Judicial Rhetoric 91<br \/><\/b>Pre-lesson Introduction to The Oresteia&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;91<br \/>Lesson 2.1 &#8211; Three Types of Rhetoric&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;94<br \/>Lesson 2.2 &#8211; Judicial Rhetoric: Stasis Theory&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;96<br \/>Lesson 2.3 &#8211; Agamemnon&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;101<br \/>Lesson 2.4 &#8211; Stasis Theory Applied to Agamemnon&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;104<br \/>Lesson 2.5 &#8211; The Libation Bearers&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;106<br \/>Lesson 2.6 &#8211; Stasis Theory Applied to The Libation Bearers&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;109<br \/>Lesson 2.7 &#8211; The Eumenides&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;111<br \/>Lesson 2.8 &#8211; Stasis Theory Applied to Eumenides&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;115<br \/>Lesson 2.9 &#8211; Progymnasma Commonplace&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;116<br \/>Lesson 2.10 &#8211; Hermogenes\u2019 Commonplace&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;122<br \/>Lesson 2.11 &#8211; Demosthenes\u2019 Commonplace&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;125<br \/>Lesson 2.12 &#8211; Writing a Commonplace Essay for a Virtue&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;129<br \/><b>Section Three: Canon of Invention  133<\/b><br \/>Pre-lesson &#8211; Introduction to On the Incarnation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;133<br \/>Lesson 3.1 &#8211; Overview of the Canon of Invention&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;134<br \/>Lesson 3.2 &#8211; Argument from Definition&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;139<br \/>Lesson 3.3 &#8211; Aristotle\u2019s Four Causes&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;142<br \/>Lesson 3.4 &#8211; Division (A Part of Definition)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;148<br \/>Lesson 3.5 &#8211; More on Definitions&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;151<br \/>Lesson 3.6 &#8211; Essences (Definition)&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;157<br \/>Lesson 3.7 &#8211; Definition in Essay Writing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;161<br \/>Lesson 3.8 &#8211; Argument from Comparison, Part I&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;166<br \/>Lesson 3.9 &#8211; Argument from Comparison, Part II&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;170<br \/>Lesson 3.10 &#8211; Similarity and Difference&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;174<br \/>Lesson 3.11 &#8211; Argument from Relationship: Cause and Effect&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;180<br \/>Lesson 3.12 &#8211; Argument from Consequent and Circumstance&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;186<br \/>Lesson 3.13 &#8211; Using Argument from Circumstance for Analysis&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;194<br \/>Lesson 3.14 &#8211; Argument from Testimony&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;199<br \/>Lesson 3.15 &#8211; Argument from Notation and Conjugates&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;204<br \/>Lesson 3.16 &#8211; Review of Invention&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;211<br \/><b>Section Four: Modern Argumentation  218<\/b><br \/>Pre-lesson &#8211; Introduction to Machiavelli\u2019s The Prince&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;218<br \/>Lesson 4.1 &#8211; Introduction to the Argumentative Essay&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;219<br \/>Lesson 4.2 &#8211; Decoding an Essay Prompt&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;224<br \/>Lesson 4.3 &#8211; The Special Topics and Essay Writing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;230<br \/>Lesson 4.4 &#8211; Thesis Statement&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;232<br \/>Lesson 4.5 &#8211; Classical Oration&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;235<br \/>Lesson 4.6 &#8211; Stasis Theory in Essay Writing&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;240<br \/>Lesson 4.7 &#8211; Enthymemes and Examples&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;243<br \/>Lesson 4.8 &#8211; Support for Argumentative Essays&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;248<br \/>Lesson 4.9 &#8211; Confirmation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;256<br \/>Lesson 4.10 &#8211; Refutation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;260<br \/>Lesson 4.11 &#8211; Paragraphs and Topic Sentences &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;265<br \/>Lesson 4.12 &#8211; Analysis of Paragraph&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;270<br \/>Lesson 4.13 &#8211; Writing Body Paragraphs&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;275<br \/>Lesson 4.14 &#8211; Introduction&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;277<br \/>Lesson 4.15 &#8211; Writing an IntroductoryParagraph, Part I&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;281<br \/>Lesson 4.16 &#8211; Writing an Introductory Paragraph, Part II&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;285<br \/>Lesson 4.17 &#8211; Towards the Conclusion: Review of Testimony Paragraph&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;287<br \/>Lesson 4.18 &#8211; Towards the Conclusion: Final Topics and Ethics &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;288<br \/>Lesson 4.19 &#8211; The Conclusion: Its Purpose&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;294<br \/>Lesson 4.20 &#8211; The Conclusion: Structure and Strategy&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;296<br \/>Lesson 4.21 &#8211; Writing a Conclusion &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;301<br \/><b>Section Five: Logic 305<\/b><br \/>Introduction 305<br \/>Pre-lesson &#8211; Introduction to Bede\u2019s Ecclesiastical History&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;305<br \/>Lesson 5.1 &#8211; The Structure of Grammar&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;306<br \/>Lesson 5.2 &#8211; Appeal to Logos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;315<br \/>Lesson 5.3 &#8211; Material Logic: Attribution&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;319<br \/>Lesson 5.4 &#8211; Aristotle\u2019s Ten Categories&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;324<br \/>Lesson 5.5 &#8211; The Five Predicables&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;330<br \/>Lesson 5.6 &#8211; Predication and Grammar&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;338<br \/>Lesson 5.7 &#8211; Logic as it Relates to Language&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;340<br \/>Lesson 5.8 &#8211; The Four Categorical Propositions&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;344<br \/>Lesson 5.9 &#8211; Venn Diagrams&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;348<br \/>Lesson 5.10 &#8211; The Square of Opposition&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;352<br \/>Lesson 5.11 &#8211; Standard Logical Form&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;354<br \/>Lesson 5.12 &#8211; More on Writing Sentences in Standard Logical Form&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;358<br \/>Lesson 5.13 &#8211; The Quantity in Standard Logical Form &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;361<br \/>Lessons 5.14 and 5.15 &#8211; Eduction&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;366<br \/>Lesson 5.16 &#8211; Eduction with A-Propositions&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;372<br \/>Lesson 5.17 &#8211; Eduction Given an E Proposition&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;380<br \/>Lesson 5.18 &#8211; Eduction Given an I-Proposition&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;385<br \/>Lesson 5.19 &#8211; Eduction Given an O Proposition&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;387<br \/>Lesson 5.20 &#8211; Making Use of Eduction&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;389<br \/>Lesson 5.21 &#8211; Terms in a Syllogism&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;391<br \/>Lesson 5.22 &#8211; The Power and Limitations of Logic&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;397<br \/>Lesson 5.23 &#8211; Appeal to Logos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;403<br \/>Lesson 5.24 &#8211; Enthymeme&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;407<br \/>Lesson 5.25 &#8211; Enthymemes in Speeches&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;412<br \/><b>Essays   418<br \/><\/b>Essay 1 &#8211; The Expository Essay&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;418<br \/>Essay 2 &#8211; Slant Narrative&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;425<br \/>Essay 3 &#8211; Confirmation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;436<br \/>Essay 4 &#8211; Refutation&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;450<br \/>Essay 5 &#8211; Commonplace&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;462<br \/>Essay 6 &#8211; The Argumentative Essay&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;475<br \/><b>Appendix Review of Skills 486<br \/><\/b>Writing a Paraphrase&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;486<br \/>Writing a Summary&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;487<br \/>Writing a pr\u00e9cis&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;487<br \/>Questions for Appeal to Ethos&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;488<\/i><\/span><i><br \/><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Kathy is fast and furiously finishing the Student Guide to Herodotus. if you want to beta test this book with your student, email us: <script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><!-- document.write('<a href=\"mail'+'to:classicalwriting'+'@'+'att.net\">');\/\/ --><\/script><a href=\"mailto:classicalwriting@att.net\">classicalwriting@att.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition, I am writing Plutarch, a book on writing Praises and Blames, both speeches, letters, and essays. It focuses on the classical special topic of Ceremonial Rhetoric. Its modern focus is on letter writing, on the comparison essay, as well as on the continued skills of writing expository and argumentative essays. In Plutarch the student will, among other books, read Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin (as an example of an invective) as well as Jane Austen&#8217;s Pride and Prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Advanced Poetry has been completed as a second draft for a long time, as well as its student guide. We&#8217;re waiting to proof that book and its student guide before they go to official beta testing, also.<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn is working on indices for both Aesop (completed) and also Homer (work in progress). Those will be posted here under free files for anyone to use.<\/p>\n<p>Our practical plan is to finish the core series of Aesop, Homer, Diogenes: Maxim &amp; Chreia, Herodotus, and Demosthenes, and their workbooks or student guides as our top priority.<\/p>\n<p>I will work on Shakespeare (creative writing) after that, and we will also continue to develop our curriculum in terms of student guides to present different options for students starting in high school, students who need to get through Diogenes in a short time, and other special cases for students who did not start with Aesop in 3rd grade.<\/p>\n<p>Lene <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently we have more than a few projects going at the same time. I just completed CW Herodotus Core book for beta testing. It is a book that focuses on Judicial rhetoric (the rhetoric of the court room). 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