Classical Composition III: Chreia/Maxim Instructional DVD
SKU
014923
ISBN
9781615384037
Grade 6-AD
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Chreia & Maxim instructional videos begin with a 29-minute course introduction. Eighteen lessons, ranging from 21 minutes to just over 1 hour, explain to the student the writing concepts for each lesson in the student book. Students will focus on story, apply paraphrase, and learn what the Greek writers called the “eight heads of development." This level takes lines of wisdom and incorporates various techniques such as analogy, paraphrase, anecdote, and restatement to explain the main thoughts. Video instructors will explain the writing model themes, draw out concepts modeled in the lessons, discuss vocabulary, ask students rhetorical questions, and more. They will also direct the students to complete tasks which might require stopping the video occasionally to write responses.
Publisher's Description of Classical Composition III: Chreia/Maxim Instructional DVD
In the third stage of the Classical Composition program, Creia/Maxim students gain the ability to create a story through the use of the narrative categories and variation through paraphrase. Students learn to demonstrate the truth of the Commonplace through what the ancient Greek writer Aphthonius calls "eight heads of development, and students deal more explicitly and thoroughly with what in modern composition theory are referred to as "support points. The ability to invent four specific types of narrative through these "heads of development and to paraphrase in two specific ways are the foundational skills to be learned in this stage.
Classical Composition III: The Chreia/Maxim Stage focuses on
the crafting a story through the use of the narrative categories and variation
through paraphrase. Students learn to demonstrate the truth of the Commonplace
through what the ancient Greek writer Aphthonius calls "eight heads of
development, and students deal more explicitly and thoroughly with what in
modern composition theory are referred to as "support points.
