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Barb.b
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Posted: Aug 27 2012 at 4:15pm \| IP Logged

I have it, never used it though. DD is 9th. IF you used it - did you pace through about one chapter per week? Did you do most of the assignments. I need SOMETHING for dd and I or we won't write. She is a decent writer but know we need to keep it up.

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Posted: Aug 27 2012 at 4:28pm \| IP Logged

We used it last year (my daughter's 10th) and quite enjoyed it. I reviewed it on this thread:

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We used The Lively Art of Writing this past year (my daughter's 10th grade year) and she really enjoyed reading it. I just assigned it as reading for the year. It's written in a very living way; quite enjoyable to read. My dd said that the ideas shared in that book really helped her in thinking about her writing. I did not structure the book as a formal writing course, but I do wish I had done more with it now; the book does lend itself well to that possibility if you wanted to do that.

There are 15 short, easy to read, well-written chapters, and each chapter wraps up with some questions, assignments (writing), and vocabulary. We completed most of the questions in an oral conversational/discussion way. The questions review and the assignment at the end of the chapter will ask the student to write based on what they've learned and read in that chapter. Each chapter builds on the other, and walks the student slowly through the process of thinking about and writing an essay.

It works well as a high school writing course - with its 15 chapters, the reading, discussion and writing could easily be completed in a full 30-36 week year, taking 2 weeks to read, discuss and write from each chapter. The author writes clearly and in an engaging way; I would certainly consider it one of our living language arts resources. It provides a fair amount of hand holding in that the assignments are clearly provided for you, and if you're willing to offer your attentiveness in assigning, requiring and reading the results, I think they work well in a home setting. But if you feel inadequate or intimidated in giving feedback on your child's writing (which, I know you don't, Erin, but in general for anyone else reading this), and need a lot of hand-holding in fostering high school writing, this may not be the resource for you.

It's an inexpensive little book with some very good content, and is definitely a worthwhile addition to the shelves here.

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Posted: Aug 27 2012 at 5:09pm \| IP Logged

Thanks Jen! I think I will plan 2 weeks per chapter. I feel confident is assessing her work. . . and think the book will keep us on track in WRITING. I hate to say it but if I don't have some sort of text book to start with then it won't get don't! I like THIS one because its not too textbook like!

Thanks!

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