Content Goals
- The characters, narrative, and content of the books studied
- Study of the English verbal system – tense, mood, voice
Analysis Goals
Classical Essay
- Continuation of the essay paragraph goals of CWS: Maxim, following the CWS: Chreia
- Deeper analysis of cause paragraphs using Aristotle’s 4 Causes
- Recognizing the 3 Kinds of rhetoric: Judicial, Ceremonial, and Deliberative
- Introduction to the 5 Canons of rhetoric: Invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery (with a focus on arrangement and style)
Literature
- Character analysis and growth
- Recognize obvious symbols, especially as they relate to characters
- Greater attention on theme and motif
- Attention to the stylistic choice of the perspective of a narrator (1st, 2nd, 3rd person, omniscient and limited; unreliable narrator)
- Recognize literary techniques like foreshadowing, situational irony, dramatic irony, etc
- Analyze syntax and diction to discuss the tone or mood of a work
- Appreciate setting
Composition Goals
Classical Essay:
- Encomium paragraph
- Paraphrase paragraph
- Cause paragraph (Including Aristotle’s 4 Causes)
- Opposite paragraph
- Analogy paragraph (comparison)
- Example (paradigm) paragraph
- Testimony paragraph
- Epilogue paragraph
- Classical essay format from Chreia – using all 8 studied paragraph types.
- The three appeals (ethos, pathos, logos)
- Five canons of rhetoric – what they are
Modern Essay:
- Fully developed paragraph form: topic sentence; one point/one paragraph/ elaboration (picture frame)/concluding sentence
- Supporting a proposition with evidence in a paragraph – primarily paraphrase, not direct citation
- Analysis paragraph (character, mood, style, tone, and setting)
- Descriptive essay (character, mood, style, tone, and setting)
- Reading quiz form – single sentence answer, short answer, short essay
- Grammar: Tense, Voice, Person, Number, Mood and use in writing (no separate Grammar class for 8th grade)
- Vocabulary routine with creative writing using terms