Prerequisite: Entering 10th grade and Completion of Lost Tools Level 1 (Essays 1-8)

Course Description

Students in this course will build on the skills mastered in LTW Level 1 by learning to compose a new kind of composition, the Judicial Address. In LTW Level 2, students will learn to use the Special Topics of the Judicial Address to gather evidence, evaluate laws, and determine motivations. In the Canon of Arrangement, students will encounter new ways to develop Narratio, Amplification, and Refutation. Elocution lessons will provide students with opportunities to practice nine new literary devices, to improve paragraphs with terminating sentences and citations, and to enhance expression by varying sentence structure.

Our literature discussions will take us to Middle-earth as we join Frodo and Sam, Merry and Pippin, Aragorn and Gandalf, Legolas and Gimli, in the fight to save their world from the destructive forces of Mordor. On this journey, we will encounter justice, courage, prudence, and temperance in their actions and experience faith, hope, and love in their relationships.

Please note: this course is a 28-week course rather than Kepler's standard 32-week course. Additional live sessions will be held on the 4th Friday of August, September, October, January, February, and April to satisfy credit requirements for diploma track students.


Course Objectives

Students will grow in judgment by:

Identifying character bias.
Learning how to address a hostile audience.
Determining appropriate support for proofs and sub-proofs.
Considering the effects of justice, evidence, and law on a case.
Employing schemes and tropes from Level 1 with greater wisdom and discernment.
Composing examples of personification, apostrophe, anaphora, epistrophe, synecdoche, hyperbole, litotes, erotema, and hypophora.
Delighting in great literature through annotation and discussion.


Weekly Time Commitment
1.5 hours participating in a live-interactive class
1-2 hours completing LTW assignments
1-1.5 hours reading and annotating the assigned text
1 hour revising assignments as requested