Poetics & Progym III
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Poetics & Progym III is a composition, grammar, and rhetoric course structured around Dante’s Divine Comedy. Students are introduced to the final progym exercises thesis, law, description, and speech-in-character, while they continue to hone skills with the rest of the progym exercises.
Composition lessons focus on advancing 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 third in a series of three books for 8th grade and up.
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Please review the downloadable PDF of the required materials for Poetics & Progym III.
Required Materials:
Poetics & Progym III Helps
Dante’s Divine Comedy, translated by Dorothy Sayers:
Recommended Materials:
Poetry Anthology (no specific edition; recommendations: Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 version, Norton Poetry Anthology 3rd Edition)
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