ISO: Booklist for Classic Year 2

[tvaleri]

Is there any place I can find a booklist for dialectic and rhetoric levels for TOG Classic Year 2?

Thanks!
Teresa
coffeebean1964 at gmail dot com

[Renaissance Mom]

The booklists for classic year plans only appear in printed form in the base unit.

Enjoy,
Monica

[tvaleri]

Hey Monica-

You wouldn't happen to have that information would you? I would like to look at it before I decide between classic and redesigned.

Thanks!
Teresa

[Pat]

Hey Teresa, I'm pretty sure the booklist is covered by copyright.

However my understanding of the classic booklist is that it is much more open and flexible than that used in Redesigned. So there are lots of suggestions made, some of those are out of print (and, of course, since classic is long out of print, there are no recent books on the lists).

You can generally use the Redesign lists to give you a sense of how Tapestry selects books. You may wish to look at the sample week plans to get a sense of the extra books they suggest by looking at the pages in the samples that show alternate books.

[Renaissance Mom]

Pat's correct. That list is covered by copyright. I think what she is referring to when she says classic is more open and flexible is that there are typically far more book choices listed than you'd want to assign each week. They winnowed assignments in redesigned so that a student could reasonable expect to complete them in a week. Of course, you as the mom can still decide to further winnow. There may also be considerable overlap between levels in many weeks. In other words, a suggested assignment might be listed in both D and R.

With the redesigned year plans, you can also be sure that the information they need to complete accountability and thinking questions is in the primary readings. That is not the case with the classic year plans.

Having said this, I successfully used classic year plans for my first several years using Tapestry. But I must add that once I started using redesigned (and now DE), I am even more delighted with this wonderful curriculum. Redesigned is just easier to use for us -- both in terms of book choices and in selecting assignments.

Be blessed,
Monica