2017 Workshop Talk | 1:02:21 | All Grade Levels, Literature, Rhetoric & Composition
Summary
In this workshop, we will review the rationales behind different pedagogies of verse composition and consider their virtues, before turning to a mode of instruction that guides students through the natural development of English verse writing into the iambic pentameter line. By tracing the slow movement from the hard stress of Anglo-Saxon accentual meter to the eventual emergence of the subtle and flexible iambic line, students will learn to think about meter in a way that accords clearly with both the natural features of modern English and the familiar features of popular music and hymns.
Speaker
Douglas Wilson is the minister of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho. He is a founding board member of both Logos School and New Saint Andrews College, and serves as an instructor at Greyfriars Hall, a ministerial training program at Christ Church. He is the author of numerous books on classical Christian education, the family, and the Reformed faith
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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