Classical Composition I & II: Fable and Narrative Set (with DVDs)

Grades 5-12

From: $138.98

Love your DVDs but wish you could watch them on the go? Add a lifetime membership to stream the instructional videos for only an additional $10!

Add "Classical Composition I: Fable Instructional Videos (Streaming), 2nd Edition" for $10.00

Add "Classical Composition II: Narrative Instructional Videos (Streaming), Second Edition" for $10.00

Classical Composition Sequence

Fable Student Sample
Fable Teacher Sample
Fable Track List
Narrative Student Sample
Narrative Teacher Sample
Narrative Track List

In the initial Fable stage, students look at a single story or idea and begin learning how to use words to engage the imagination of the audience. They master the structures of thought or ideas that go into a narrative and learn to create recognition by using figures of description. Students learn to restructure facts to tell the same story or idea. They also discover that words are symbols representing ideas, and as writers they can communicate the same idea using a variety of words and sentence structures. In the Classical Composition II: Narrative Set, students continue to build invention skills as well as the ability to engage the imagination of an audience. They master the structures of thought that originate narratives and learn to create recognition by using figures of description. They develop the ability to communicate the same idea using a variety of words, sentence structures, and various perspectives.

Online Streaming Videos icon You can also purchase the Classical Composition I & II: Fable and Narrative Set (with Streaming) instead of the set with DVDs.

Take this course with a master teacher in a live online class.

Product Description

This set includes the Student Book, Teacher Guide, and Instructional DVDs for Classical Composition I: Fable and Classical Composition II: Narrative.

Fable Lesson Sample

Narrative Lesson Sample

What if you could teach your child using the same writing program that produced such masters of the language as John Milton, William Shakespeare, and Benjamin Franklin? What if you could have the same composition curriculum used by Quintilian, the greatest teacher of ancient rhetoric, and Cicero, the greatest persuasive speaker of all time?

Jim Selby has blown the dust off the writing curriculum that was used in schools for over 1,500 years and put it in an easy-to-teach format that will revolutionize your home or private school curriculum. Presented clearly and systematically in a structured curriculum, Classical Composition will give you a clear road map to writing excellence.

Ancient writers invented a way of teaching writing known as the progymnasmata, which provided a method of teaching composition that not only taught budding writers a disciplined way to approach communication, but also helped them appeal to the heads of their audience. The progymnasmata gave them the stylistic tools to appeal to their hearts as well.

The greatest communicators of ancient times, Quintilian and Cicero among them, employed the progymnasmata to teach their students the art of communication. The 14 exercises, organized from the simplest and most basic to the most complex and sophisticated, were the core education of a classical speaker, designed to produce what Quintilian once called “the good man, speaking well.”