Hello! I am a relative new-comer to Classical Christian Education after 31 years in public education (sigh...). I am quite impressed with your approach in this study guide! My question is about pedagogy: Is it appropriate to include questions about style (e.g., tropes and schemes)under the "grammar" category of questions? I wonder how to integrate such composition elements into literature study guides, so students can examine examples in context. Thanks for your thoughts!
Hi! Great question. I would probably include questions like that in the “logic” section because that’s where we do analysis of the text, interpretation, and comparison. So I do sometimes ask questions like, “Where do we see alliteration in this reading?” Or “How does the use of anthropomorphism in this reading affect the text?”
Also, we are in the midst of a large curriculum project that will include 7-12th history and literature, 7-9 logic, 7-9 composition, and 10-12 rhetoric. The composition and rhetoric curriculum will do a lot more with teaching about tropes and schemes and will pull from texts we are reading in the history and literature curriculum. The goal is complete integration of all our material.
Hello! I am a relative new-comer to Classical Christian Education after 31 years in public education (sigh...). I am quite impressed with your approach in this study guide! My question is about pedagogy: Is it appropriate to include questions about style (e.g., tropes and schemes)under the "grammar" category of questions? I wonder how to integrate such composition elements into literature study guides, so students can examine examples in context. Thanks for your thoughts!
Hi! Great question. I would probably include questions like that in the “logic” section because that’s where we do analysis of the text, interpretation, and comparison. So I do sometimes ask questions like, “Where do we see alliteration in this reading?” Or “How does the use of anthropomorphism in this reading affect the text?”
Also, we are in the midst of a large curriculum project that will include 7-12th history and literature, 7-9 logic, 7-9 composition, and 10-12 rhetoric. The composition and rhetoric curriculum will do a lot more with teaching about tropes and schemes and will pull from texts we are reading in the history and literature curriculum. The goal is complete integration of all our material.
Hope that makes sense and is helpful!
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