Search:

Hi Bonnie! What a great question. :-) Here are a few thoughts for you---hope they help you process the question!

1. You ask, "Can a writer with a Christian worldview write in the realistic mode...

Wow. Messy. And the TOG notes may need revision if they are self-contradictory. :-/

I'd take the one-liner at the top as an introduction to the poem (the ancient Chinese poets do this too), sort...

Hi Bonnie! The answer is "Yes, you should go ahead and print the Y4 version." We added several historical articles for kids to use in understanding 20th century literature, updated and added a...

Yes, the paper topic suggestions in Year 1 Rhetoric Literature are not very specific. Also, as you say, the topic and timing of the third paper is left entirely up to you. I believe we did that in...

Hi Dawn!

I couldn't agree more with Pat, but I also want to give a quick reassurance about the teacher training seminars and DVD's that are sold separately from TOG. We have recently begun to...

Story Analysis is an old document that was available only with the first printing of Year 2. If you have that printing of that year plan, you should be able to access it under "Literature Helps" on...

I'd just have her focus on the questions that will relate directly to your discussion. :-)

Christy Somerville

Hmmm... well, unfortunately, the definitions DO change a little over time. That's something we're working on fixing, but the revisions aren't done yet. :-/ What I'd do, Bonnie, is just have him...

Both of those would be good answers. :-) There's a section in "Teaching Rhetoric Literature" on it if you want to show him the "official" answer. ;-) But what you said works just fine and is pretty...

Hi Beth! Boy, do I hear you---I'm getting ready to teach the Iliad this week too, and that class plan is WAY top-heavy. :-/ Sorry about that---working on a revision of it!

For now, my...

Dear Ladies,

This HAS been confusing, and unfortunately I added to the confusion in my earlier post because I thought you were asking for something else. :-/ I'm so sorry! Let me attempt to...

For what it's worth, CoastalGal, I'm not even CLOSE to being a computer genius, and I love my DE. :-) The tech staff at LP help me keep it going, and other than that it's really point and shoot. Of...

Hi ladies. :-) To the best of my knowledge, the older version of Y2 doesn't have the Poetry Analysis Outlines... they are something we introduced when we revised Y2. However, if you are working...

Hi! What happened is that we promised to have the files go up in our next update. I have talked to the appropriate people and they are willing to get these fixed files up today, just to serve you,...

Gail,

Have you read through all the Teacher's Notes scripts for Gulliver's Travels yet? The answer to that question, I want to say, is in the last script. If you have read them and it's not...

Yes and no, Bonnie. A LOT of the text is the same, but each year we updated various explanations and definitions, added new sections and removed or combined others. So, if you print one version and...

Hi Dawn. :-)

I know just what you mean about feeling dependent on Poetics and Frameworks. I am also teaching Year 1 this year after teaching with P&F for two years in a row, and even though I...

You DEFINITELY want to print out Poetics and Frameworks information from the year-plan that you have. Yes, it does change significantly from year to year... and I'm working on reconciling all four...

Wow, Pat, is it really? Yikes. I read David Copperfield when I was seventeen (almost ten years ago), but I did NOT remember it being long. In that case, I guess an abridged version would be a good...

Well, there are several other Dickens works that are of similar length and are also considered classics... The ones that leap to mind are David Copperfield and Our Mutual Friend. If your students is...

Hi Michelle! There are several groups in the DC/VA/MD area... I know of at least two: one in Gaithersburg and one in Frederick (which is the co-op where Marcia and I teach). However, I believe that...

Susan is correct. :-)

Christy Somerville

Seeing a drama performed is definitely a treat, and though it's not the same as studying the literary aspects of a script, I think it would be fine to skip Tartuffe (especially since you can skip up...

I'd agree pretty strongly with Pat's perspective. The Scarlet Letter and The Crucible may be SET in the seventeenth century, but they are written very much from the mindsets of 1850 and 1950,...

Leslie, if your daughter is only 13, I would wait on the Rhetoric Lit and just do Dialectic Lit this year. Or you could add in a few books at the Rhetoric level, but Paradise Lost is probably way...