Poetics & Progym II
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Poetics & Progym II is a composition, grammar, and rhetoric course structured around Virgil’s Aeneid. Students are introduced to progym exercises confirmation, refutation, common-place, encomium, invective, and comparison, while they continue to hone skills with the narrative and anecdote/proverb exercises.
Composition lessons focus on advancing expository and persuasive writing. Grammar lessons are applied using selections from classic literature and poems, including challenging sentence diagramming lessons. Also includes studies in poetry, literary analysis, figures of speech, and figures of description.
This is the second in a series of three books for 8th grade and up.
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Please review the downloadable PDF of the required materials for Poetics & Progym.
Required Materials:
Poetics & Progym II Helps
Poetry Anthology (no specific edition; recommendations: Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 version, Norton Anthology 3rd Edition)
Recommended Materials:
The Aeneid Helps & Resources from Cottage Press (free download)
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