Poetics & Progym I is a composition, grammar, and rhetoric course structured around Homer's Odyssey and the narrative, proverb, and anecdote stages of the progymnasmata.

Composition lessons focus on outlining, summary and précis, and beginning expository and persuasive writing. Grammar lessons are applied using selections from classic literature and poems, including challenging sentence diagramming lessons. Also includes studies in poetry, literary analysis, figures of speech, and figures of description.

This is the first in a series of three books for 8th grade and up.

Please review the downloadable PDF of the required materials for Poetics & Progym I.

Required Materials:

Poetics & Progym I Helps

Sentence Sense

Three composition books

The Odyssey by Homer

Recommended Materials:

Leland Ryken’s Homer’s The Odyssey: A Christian Guide to the Classics

Poetry Anthology (no specific edition; recommendations: Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 version, Norton Poetry Anthology 3rd Edition)

Bulfinch’s Age of Fable

Book of Centuries

Dictionary

Quizlet Classroom

A Key to Harvey’s Practical English Grammar

Sample Lesson