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Working it Out: Growing Spiritually with the Poetry of George Herbert is a delightful introduction to fifty of the most beautiful works of this gifted poet. Although Working it Out is written primarily as a devotional, it models a thoughtful method for reading and understanding poetry in general, and can be used in home schools and classrooms as a one year study of poetry.

World Literature, the fifth volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, but also college-ready writing skills and deep cultural literacy. Students work with unabridged great classics (purchased separately), including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, which have been selected for compelling ideas, literary quality, and in honor of their place in the historical developm...

British Literature, the fourth volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, but also to build college-ready writing skills and deep cultural literacy. Students work with unabridged great classics (purchased separately), including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, which have been selected for compelling ideas, literary quality, and in honor of their place in the histori...

American Literature (Excellence in Literature, English 3) cultivates competent readers and writers in a self-directed, classics-focused, one year, college-prep literature and composition course for co-op, classroom, or homeschool use. The award-winning Excellence in Literature curriculum, suitable for grades 8-12, presents a feast of great ideas by immersing students in great literature. Classics that have stood the test of time-rollicking adv...

Introduction to Literature (English 1) is a one year, college-prep literature and composition course for co-op, classroom, or homeschool use.The curriculum The Excellence in Literature curriculum presents a feast of great ideas by immersing students in great literature. Classics that have stood the test of time-rollicking adventures, compelling plays, engaging poetry-encourage students to enjoy literature study, rather than just endure it. Stu...

Literature and Composition, the second volume of the Excellence in Literature curriculum, is designed to cultivate not only a love for great literature, but also college-ready writing skills and deep cultural literacy. Students work with unabridged great classics (purchased separately), including novels, short stories, poems, and drama, which have been selected for compelling ideas, literary quality, and in honor of their place in the historic...

In this Third Reader from the 1879 edition of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, you will find dramatic stories, vintage illustrations, phonics-based reading instruction, and more, all designed to teach children language arts and communication skills. Whether you use them for instruction or simply as readers, these books offer an authentic glimpse of historic lives and values while expanding vocabulary and perspective.Across the series, you will fin...

In this Fifth Reader from the 1879 edition of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, you will find dramatic stories, vintage illustrations, phonics-based reading instruction, and more, all designed to teach children language arts and communication skills. Whether you use them for instruction or simply as readers, these books offer an authentic glimpse of historic lives and values while expanding vocabulary and perspective.Across the series, you will fin...

In this Fourth Reader from the 1879 edition of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, you will find dramatic stories, vintage illustrations, phonics-based reading instruction, and more, all designed to teach children language arts and communication skills. Whether you use them for instruction or simply as readers, these books offer an authentic glimpse of historic lives and values while expanding vocabulary and perspective.Across the series, you will fi...

In this Second Reader from the 1879 edition of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, you will find dramatic stories, vintage illustrations, phonics-based reading instruction, and more, all designed to teach children language arts and communication skills. Whether you use them for instruction or simply as readers, these books offer an authentic glimpse of historic lives and values while expanding vocabulary and perspective.Across the series, you will fi...

McGuffey's Eclectic Primer introduces letters, sounds, and writing instruction in 52 short story-based lessons. Charming vintage illustrations appear on nearly every page.

In the First Reader from this revised 1879 edition of McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, you will find dramatic stories, vintage illustrations, phonics-based reading instruction, and more, all designed to teach children language arts and communication skills. Whether you use them for instruction or simply as readers, these books offer an authentic glimpse of historic lives and values while expanding vocabulary and perspective. Across the series, you...

This two-part writer's handbook is designed for instruction, reference, and evaluation, and can be used for high school, college, and professional writing. Part 1 is a course in essays and arguments with topic-sentence outline models and much more. Part 2 is a traditional reference guide to grammar, style, and usage. Presented with a detailed table of contents that allows the reader to pinpoint issues and find solutions to writing questions.A ...

Transcripts Made Easy: The Homeschooler's Guide to High School Paperwork shows you how to grade, grant credit, create simple, effective home-school transcripts and high school diplomas, and keep simple records. In print since 2001, Transcripts Made Easy has helped thousands of homeschool families create transcripts they are confident about sharing, and this new edition is better than ever. In this updated and expanded fourth edition of Transcr...

In the honorable tradition of Strunk and White, the Excellence in Literature Handbook for Writers is a modern adaptation of a time-tested writer's handbook. Based upon two earlier volumes by college professor Ian Johnston, this new work includes instruction in the art of literary argumentation and essays as well as a general reference for grammar, style, and usage. It was adapted for high school use and beyond by Janice Campbell, author of the...

The fifth reader begins with 27 pages of instruction and examples for reading and recitation as a rhetorical exercise, followed by 101 literature-based language arts lessons. The opening section concludes with five short but challenging literary selections with which to practice the principles of rhetoric. These include "Death of Franklin, " "Bonaparte, " "Hamlet on Seeing the Skull of Yorick, " "Description of a Battle" from Marmion, and "Lo...

The sixth reader is described by its publisher as "a rhetorical reading book, for the more advanced classes." It begins with 60 pages of instruction in articulation, inflection, accent and emphasis, reading verse, the voice, and gesture.  This is followed by 179 literature-based lessons. These include readings from Sir Walter Scott, Shakespeare, Milton, Longfellow, Lord Byron, Cowper, Patrick Henry, William Pitt, William Cullen Bryant, Charles...

The fourth reader begins with exercises in marks and pauses (punctuation and editor's marks), articulation, accent, and inflection. These exercises are followed by 80 lessons-51 in prose and 29 in poetry. Complexity and vocabulary level has increased dramatically since the first reader, and you will see increasing evidence that the language usage in these McGuffey Readers is helpful to your students in all the subjects they are studying. By...

The third reader begins with lessons on articulation and marks and pauses (punctuation). The articulation lesson reviews some of the words from the last half of the second reader, while the punctuation instruction provides a brief overview of the basic punctuation marks and their uses. Each of these lessons includes a note to the teacher and the articulation lesson includes a model for class drill.These introductory lessons are followed by 86 ...

The second reader begins with a lesson on articulation, with instructions for the teacher, seven exercises, and a model for class drill. This is followed by 71 language arts lessons, based upon character-building stories, essays, and poetry. Each paragraph or stanza is numbered, which makes it easy to assign portions of a passage or poem as copywork, recitation, or narration. Spelling words listed at the beginning of each lesson. Most stories ...