Excelsior Classical

7TH-8TH

Complete Lesson 5: Daniel Webster.

10th-12th

Paraphrase Lesson 7: Invective on Philip.  Continue work on thesis paper.

7TH-8TH

Complete Lesson 3: Andrew Jackson.   Be sure to label your paragraphs.

10TH-12TH

Complete Lesson 6:  Encomium on an Animal.  Label each paragraph.  Use note cards to present your  speech.

Prepare your part to present the Common Topic Stage to the ninth graders.

Have an idea for a thesis paper and bring it to class on Friday.

7TH-8TH

Complete Lesson Two: Thomas Jefferson.  LABEL each head (paragraph).

10TH-12TH

Complete Lesson 5:  Encomium on a Virtue.  We chose God’s love as our virtue.  However, if you wish to write on another virtue, you may do so. LABEL each head (paragraph).

7TH-8TH

Complete Lesson 1:  George Washington.  Label each head (paragraph) as well as the agent, action, time, place, manner, and cause in both the cause and converse paragraphs.

10TH-12TH

Complete Lesson 4: Paraphrase on Encomium on Wisdom.  Label each paragraph.

7TH-8TH

Paraphrase the first four heads (paragraphs) of Lesson 1:  George Washington.  Read over the information concerning the remaining heads:  analogy, example, testimony of others,and brief epilogue.  Be prepared to add to the class discussion about these heads.

10TH-12TH

Rewrite Lesson 2.  Be prepared to read your composition in class.

7th-8th

Read and study Lesson 1 in the Chreia/Maxim notebook.  Paraphrase the first four heads (paragraphs) and bring to class.

10th-12th

Complete lesson 2:  Encomium on an individual.

7TH-8TH

Study for semester exam.  Be able to write definitions for Figures of Description and to identify examples of each figure. Review worksheets on punctuating with commas and writing dialogue.

10TH-12TH

Study for semester exam. Study the heads of the Common Topic.  Be able to define each and to identify each from a Common Topic paper.  Study worksheets on writing parallel sentences and compound-complex sentences.  Know how to use commas correctly in compound sentences and with introductory adverb clauses. Review Figures of Description.

NO ASSIGNMENTS THE WEEK OF THANKSGIVING!  HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

7TH-8TH COMPOSITION

Complete lesson 12.  Write the story through the viewpoint of  one of the characters, an object, or a character you choose to invent.  Add the following Figures of Description:  topothesia, prosopographia, prosopopoeia, topographia, pragmatographia, and dialogismus.

10TH-12TH COMPOSITION

Study the material found in Lesson 1 of the Encomium Notebook.  Be prepared to discuss this information on Dec. 2  Try you hand at paraphrasing some of the paragraphs and plan to share this in class.

7TH-8TH COMPOSITION

Complete Lesson 10, “The Frog Prince.”  Use the following figures of description:  anemographia, astrothesia, chronographia, chorographia, dendographia, and dialogismus.  Include three (3) introductory adverb clauses and three (3) introductory prepositional phrases punctuated correctly.  Remember the rule with introductory prepositional phrases-use a comma with three (3) or more prepositional phrases.

Write the story from the perspective of someone or something other than the three daughters or the frog.  Add to the story the reason why the prince was turned into a frog.

10th-12th COMPOSITION

Bring the Encomium workbook to class on Friday.

7TH-8TH COMPOSITION

Complete Lesson 6.  Paraphrase the story by inverting the sequence of events.  Use the following Figures of Description (identify each figure):  anemographia, astrothesia, chorographia, chronographia, dendographia, and dialogismus.  Do the “Vary the Sentences” exercise.  Use these sentences in your paraphrase.  Underline the sentences that you “vary.”

10TH-12TH COMPOSITION

Work on your oral presentation of your Common Topic.  Bring a copy of your paper to class .