MCT LEVEL 5 Complete Homeschool Package - Package by Royal Fireworks Press

 Volume Two, extensively refined and improved in 2007, includes:

• a better (visual) way of indicating whether a stem is Greek or Latin
• flip-side questions on every weekly test
• word-creation exercises in every list
• explanations of the interaction of different kinds of thinking processes
• an exciting range of creative and imaginative activities
• extensive references to the language of classic literature
• guides to pronunciation
• Spanish word lists
• lots more fun ways to look at words and language but still in a rigorous curriculum context

Volume Two develops what was begun in Volume One. See above, and at the top of the page for details of the series.

Using Plato's Dialogues and Socratic questioning as a source of ideas and a way of thinking about the complex problem of beauty, this, the fifth volume in the acclaimed new Poetics Program by Michael Clay Thompson, continues the study of poetry techniques and poems. It is a wonderfully illustrated, thought-provoking and challenging addition to the series and, like the other volumes, can also stand alone.

Is beauty relative? Is beauty a mystery? Poetry helps us look at these questions.

The table of contents includes: The Beauty of the Voice; Beautiful Patterns of Sound; Meter and Beauty; The Beauty of Stanza.

The student is asked to explore further such concepts as The Complex World of Technique and the Socratic paradox: "I only know that I know nothing".

There are numerous quotations from Plato and Aristotle.

Poets quoted include: Thomas Gray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning; William Blake; Gerard Manley Hopkins; Geoffrey Chaucer; Edmund Spenser; Alexander Pope; John Milton; ee cummings; Sylvia Plath; Ralph Hodgson; Herman Melville; John Keats; WB Yeats; Ben Jonson; Robinson Jeffers; Christina Rosetti; William Wordsworth.

Sample pages (pdf files): page 5 | page 35 | page 111

Sample pages (pdf files): page 94 | page 95

The sentences in Volume 2 of the Practice Workbooks series are taken from works of classic literature, giving illuminating insights into how great writers achieve meaning, beauty and depth in their writing.

This book is a vital supplement to the grammar course, Magic Lens 2. It uses vocabulary taken directly from Word within the Word 2 and refers to poetic devices in Poetry, Plato, and the Problem of Beauty.

The authors whose sentences are used in 4Practice 2 include: William Shakespeare and John Milton to Daniel Defoe, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Upton Sinclair, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Toni Morrison, Marjorie Kennan Rawlings, Jane Austen, Stephen Crane, Thomas Hardy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H. G. Wells, James Joyce, Mary Shelley, Virginia Woolf, Frederick Douglass, Charles Dickens, Alan Paton, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Joseph Heller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bram Stoker, William Makepeace Thackeray, Henry David Thoreau, , Rachel Carson, James Hilton, Maya Angelou, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Eudora Welty.

View: 4Practice Vol 2 front and back cover (0.5MB PDF)

There is a Teacher Manual (see below) and the student workbooks can be purchased at a class set price depending upon the quantity ordered. Schools and school districts can combine orders of the practice books for maximum discount:

25 books: $9.00
50 books: $8.00
100 books: $7.00
250 books: $6.50
500 books: $6.00
750 books: $5.50
1,000 books: $5.00

Please note that in most cases, the shopping cart will not show the actual discount; this will be applied when you are billed, and no matter what the shopping cart says, you will never be billed or charged at a higher rate than that to which you are entitled.

Sample pages: Page 11 / Sentence 28 page 39 / Sentence 92 page 103

Volume Two's Student and Teacher books, published in November 2009, extend this exacting program from Volume One with more elaborate MLA format rules, more competent essay continuity to forge, more proofreader's marks and forty more actual research paper comments to absorb.

So that students and teachers do not have to juggle two books to find out what is in which book, Volume Two also contains the summaries of punctuation, usage and grammar rules of Volume One for review, with additional items and special comments.

The assignments:

• A Paper about Poetry or Shakespeare
• Comparison or Contrast
• Evaluating Ideas
• Creating an Academic Idea