IEW Literature & Poetry Resources

This resource will be a treasure for any homeschooling family! Perfect for literature-based courses, unit studies, and supplementing history curriculum, Timeline of Classics features a chronological index of classic world literature, biographies, plays, recordings, and films that are organized into the basic ages of history. Periods include the Ancients, the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, and Modern World, with numerous sub-divisions (such as the Age of Enlightenment, Westward Expansion, and the Cold War Period), with dates listed for each. Organized as a landscape-oriented graph, each entry includes a description or time period, the title of the book, the author of the book, and Level. Grade Levels include E, M, and H for Elementary, Middle, and High School. This 2nd Edition now includes instructions and samples for Reader-Response Journaling. 121 pages, spiral-bound softcover. Non-reproducible. Grades K-12.

For the teacher! Learn this step-by-step method for reading, analyzing, and discussing literature and use it with any story at any grade level. DVD training addresses the tools for literary analysis; style and context; setting; characters; conflict and plot; and themes. Includes full texts, discussion questions and notes, annotated reading lists, reproducible story charts, and more. Eight DVD sessions with syllabus notebook.

Great literature can change and shape a person. Windows to the World teaches high school students how to analyze the primary elements of literature: setting, plot, characterization, imagery, allusions, parallelism, and much more. Written from a Christian perspective, students will also learn to view literature and the author's intentions. Students will read a lesson (many with literary excerpts) before completing a variety of associated assignments.

The included teacher's supplement features a course overview, assessment overview, sample schedules, and chapter-by-chapter lesson plans with chapter objectives, a chapter outline plan and approach, and detailed teaching helps and supplements.

Student Book is 194 pages, softcover, spiralbound. Pages are reproducible for use by multiple children within the same immediate family. Purchasers of this book also receive instructions to download the optional Syllabus for Introduction to Literary Analysis.

The teacher's manual is 129 pages, spiralbound.

Linguistic Development through Poetry Memorization from the Institute of Excellence in writing introduces students to a source of powerful and sophisticated linguistic patterning available to children: memorized language, especially memorized poetry.

Memorization helps to improve the brain, build mental discipline, and strengthen the spirit. This long-term program is designed to help students memorize dozens of poems, be able to recite them, and then retain their memorization abilities for life.

This program will take several years to complete and can be used with grades K-12; poems are divided into four levels with a fifth level featuring speeches. Level 1 begins with short enjoyable verses that gradually increase in length and sophistication; the last level's memorization selections include Socrates' Apology by Plato, We Shall Fight on the Beaches by Winston Churchill, The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln & more.

Students and the teacher recite one poem several times per day. A mastery-based program, the second poem is introduced and practiced after the first is mastered; however it's still repeated daily---as part of class, in the car, or during chores. By the end of the level, students can recite every poem they've learned. 20 selections per level.

The teacher's guide includes instructions, memory charts, certificates, and poet biographies.

The included audio CD recordings help to facilitate learning through repetition so that students can master poems quickly and accurately.

Grades K-12

This kit includes:

• Teacher's Guide: 206 pages, Spiral-bound soft cover. 2nd Edition.

• Audio CDs
• A code to access online student pages

Designed to accompany Institute for Excellence in Writing's Structure & Style curriculum, this supplementary curriculum will help students learn to integrate IEW techniques with topics from the Narnia stories. Using the first three novels of The Chronicles of Narnia (The Magician's Nephew, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Horse and His Boy), these 31 lessons encourage students to experience the enchanted land of Narnia through structure and style. This course is designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style seminar and is familiar with IEW writing techniques.

The Student Book gives reading assignments from the novels, source texts on related topics, key word outlines to fill in, checklists, assignments, wordlists, and more!

The Teacher's Manual is a necessary component of the course. Inset, reduced-size student pages are included with the correct answers overlaid. Notes and information for the teacher is provided in the margins surrounding the student pages; the notes guide teachers/parents through each lesson with in-depth explanations, tips for teaching, checklists, and other helpful notes.

Middle school students (grades 6-8). 31 lessons; suggested schedule covers 1 lesson per week including editing & writing time.

This 3rd Edition has updated the Teacher's Manual so that it now includes inset student pages, In the student workbook, lessons have been revamped; some include new source texts, and checklists have been updated.

This kit includes:

• Following Narnia Volume 1: The Lion's Song Student Book; 248 pages, softcover spiralbound. Third Edition. Reproducible for in-family use only.
• Following Narnia Volume 1: The Lion's Song Teacher's Manual; 248 pages, softcover spiralbound. Third Edition
• Access to the following downloads: the Student Resource Notebook and Following Narnia Volume 1: The Lion's Song Reproducible Checklists ebook.

Take a trip to Narnia and learn advanced IEW writing skills along the way with Following Narnia Volume 2: Aslan's Country . Using Prince Caspian, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Silver Chair, and The Last Battle, students will develop more advanced writing skills and techniques. This course is designed to be used by an instructor who has been through the Teaching Writing: Structure and Style seminar and is familiar with IEW writing techniques, and students who have at least one year of experience with IEW.

The Student Book gives reading assignments from the novels, source texts on related topics, checklists, assignments, word lists, student samples, and more.

The Teacher's Manual is a necessary component of the course. Inset, reduced-size student pages are included with the correct answers overlaid. Notes for the teacher are provided in the margins surrounding the student pages; these include sample key word outlines, brainstorming ideas, answers to questions, review activities, and ideas for motivating students.

Upper middle school and high school students (grades 8-12).

This kit includes:

• Following Narnia Volume 2: Aslan's Country Student Book; 220 pages, softcover spiralbound. Reproducible for in-family use only.
• Following Narnia Volume 2: Aslan's Country Teacher's Manual; 220 pages, softcover spiralbound.
• Access to download the Student Resource Notebook