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How to Teach and Assess Lost Tools of Writing I

$200.00/summer
LTW1: Learn how to: construct each lesson around the central skill, format your class time to encompass the lesson, assign proper homework, assess student work for mastery.
This class is currently archived, but if you're interested in it being taught again, you can express your interest here!
06/17/2025 - 07/08/2025
Summer Term
0.00 credits in Writing and Rhetoric
Grade Adult Education

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About the course

Through this course, you will be introduced to the course structure of the curriculum and the first three canons of rhetoric: Invention, Arrangement, and Elocution. We will cover: Thesis-building, proofs and substantiation, refutation, and language devices such as schemes and tropes. We will also discuss ways to structure a lesson to help the students perceive the skill expected and then assess their work. This is not a writing and editing course though it does address weak and inconsistent verbs which we will compare and contemplate.
Course Prerequisites: Participants should: Have proficient knowledge of the eight parts of speech-
Be able to write complete sentences and paragraphs-
Be familiar with verb tenses-
Basic editing and formatting-
A strong recommendation for Lost Tools progression is for the Level 1 course to be taken twice, before proceeding to Level II so that all of the elements through Essay 8 are well known and easily applied in a student's composition. We will discuss and contemplate why the level of mastery is important before recommending students proceed to LTW II.
Films to watch to prepare for course:
Karate Kid, 1984, Director: John G. Avildsen
Course Objectives: Learn about educational pedagogy
Learn about LTW I structure
Preview and discuss key skills in the curriculum
Discuss examples of assignments and assessments
Practice course elements

Curriculum Texts:
Lost Tools of Writing, 5th Edition, Teacher and Student Workbook, published by the CiRCE Institute-

About the teacher

Cheryl Floyd Cheryl Floyd, married for 32 years and homeschooling mother of seven, recently earned her Humanities degree at Faulkner University’; Great Books college. She hopes to pursue a Master’s in Classical Studies and open an Orthodox classical school.