The Student Workbook encourages independent composition, while the Instructor Text contains easy-to-use supporting information for the teacher, rubrics for grading, sample compositions, and dialogue to use while teaching. Together, the Student Workbook and Instructor Text provide a full year of middle-grade writing instruction, preparing students to enter high-level rhetoric. Reviews Level One skills in narration, biographical sketches, descriptions, and sequencesTeaches new skills in writing comparisons, drawing contrasts, and tracing cause and effectImproves sentence style through prose exercises drawn from Erasmus, Aristotle, and other classical rhetoriciansCovers three-level outlining, composition planning and structureGuides the student through critical essay writing in both fiction and poetryProvides practice in research and documentation skills