Rhetorical 1 Phase Agenda Only

About Course

  • 32-week program fully laid out with our weekly agenda
  • Offline 3 days a week with independent work
  • 1 day a week Parent or Guardian will engage student  with program specific discussions and activities for approximately 4 hours
  • Students will read, research and practice at home 3 days a week and come to community prepared for public speaking, discussion, debate, and science/experiments   
  • Most students will average 4 hrs. a day doing coursework with our program.
  • Practicing the classical tools of learning provides the fundamentals of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. 
  • An optional but highly recommended resource would be Kreeft’s Socratic Logic (kindle $8.99 hardback $35)  

Suggested yearly calendar for your planning purposes: 

  •     First Day of School Week of  August 26th 

  •     Thanksgiving Break Week of Nov 25th
  •     End of First Semester Week of  December 16th

  •     Winter Break December 9th – January 3rd 

  •     Beginning of Second Semester January 6th

  •     Second Semester Spring Break March 3rd-7th

  •     Last Day of Classes May 2nd 

 

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What Will You Learn?

  • Research - how to research and properly list your sources
  • How to write great essays
  • How to organize thoughts properly for a research paper or essay
  • How to ask questions that produce great answers
  • Reasoning (logic)- recognizing fallacies and practicing formal logic

Course Content

Rhetorical 1 Weekly Assignments
Second Semester Readers