LTW II and British Literature

Writing is a skill that requires coaching and practice. This course will create a shared literary experience and allow students to learn and practice writing using the rhetorical tools introduced in the Lost Tools of Writing Level II.

During this course, your student will continue the study of classical rhetoric by practicing the judicial address. Just as the elements of LTW I build upon one another, so LTW II builds upon LTW I. Students will continue using three canons of classical rhetoric: Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution. They will also continue practicing the five common topics and figures of speech from LTW I while adding new schemes and tropes, new sentence structures, further Amplification, new exordia, logic, and special topics like justice and stasis questions.

At the end of this course, your student will be able to write a 10-paragraph judicial address and grow in discernment and judgment by thinking deeply about issues arising from the literature we will read together.

Course Prerequisites:
Students should have successfully completed at least one year of LTW Level I and be at least 15 years of age.

Course Objectives:
Learn to refine the thinking and writing skills introduced in LTW I
Utilize the new Invention Topics of Justice and Stasis Questions
Recognize and use new schemes and tropes
Write eight Judicial Addresses
Grow in their ability to think and write well
Learn how to read great books

Texts:
Lost Tools of Writing Level Two, 2nd Edition, Third Printing, Student Workbook, published by the CiRCE Institute, 2022. ISBN 9781734785371
Beowulf, Burton Raffel (please make sure your book has line numbers)
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien