Category Archives: Writing/Progymnasmata

Background Reading for Parents (and interested students) “A Short History of the Aesopic Fable” in The Fables of Aesop (1894) Introduction to the section on “Fables and Symbolic Stories” in Children’s Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes (1921). “Introduction” to The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom (1922). Instruction forContinue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student – Year One, Week One”

The draft of this writing curriculum will appear here, in regular installments, as it is pulled together, beginning in summer 2023. Year One, for 9th graders, will cover Fable, Narrative, Anecdote, and Maxim over thirty-six weeks, nine weeks per “exercise” (type of writing); Year Two, Refutation, Confirmation, Commonplace, and Encomium; Year Three, Invective, Comparison, Personification,Continue reading “Progymnasmata for the High School Student”