Writing With Skill, Level 2: Instructor Text

by Susan Wise Bauer

Overview

Time-tested classical techniques--the imitation and analysis of great writers--combined with original composition exercises in history, science, biography, and literature.

The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric.

• Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequences
• Teaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effect
• Improves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoricians
• Covers three-level outlining, composition planning and structure
• Guides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetry
• Provides practice in research and documentation skills
   

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942968238
Publisher:	The Well-Trained Mind Press
Publication date:	06/29/2015
Series:	Complete Writer
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	600
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Susan Wise Bauer is an educator and academic who has worked with parents and students for more than twenty years. She taught at the College of William&Mary in Virginia for fifteen years. Her previous best-selling titles for Norton include The Well-Trained Mind, The Well-Educated Mind, The Story of Western Science, and the History of the World series.