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Great Books Writing Workshop
Choices from Antiquity to Modernity 

The workshop experience, designed for a full school year or half, gives students the opportunity to read selections from the Great Books and good books, and to complete monthly drafts and papers for evaluation. The more than thirty available assignments include a mix of traditional essays and Progymnasmata exercises, and you may substitute alternate reading selections in consultation with me. Assignments may be chosen from one era or from Antiquity to Modernity, rearranged or pursued on your own schedule, but all work must be completed by mid-June of the school year for which you order.  When you order you will receive access to the crteacher.com site for GBWW, and there you may choose the assignments that will best meet your educational needs. The chart below shows the assignments currently available at the site, and others may be added over the course of the year.

New this year--a Resource Membership for teachers and families who need help with assignments but no evaluations. Resource Membership includes access to all assignments and samples as well as to interaction on the Forums, and evaluations may be added at any time. I have even included at the site a collection of twenty-four fully evaluated student papers based on the GBWW assignments.
 

Download Sample GBWW Antiquity assignment



Antiquity

Reading Assignment  Difficulty, Word Count
Daniel (portions) Evaluation  ** 300-500
Genesis (portions), Gilgamesh Comparison  *** 500
Odyssey (portions) Characterization or Narrative  ** or *** 600-800
Herodotus (portions) Special Narrative  ** or *** 500
Oedipus Rex and Poetics Thesis  *** 500-1000
Plutarch on Lycurgus and Numa P. Praise/Blame  *** 400-700
Plato on Socrates' Trial and Death Praise/Blame  *** 400-700
Plutarch on Cicero and Alexander Essay Exam  ** 1 hour for exam
Caesar, Gallic War (portions) Anecdote  **** 600
Augustine, Confessions (portion) Research/Analysis  *** 800-1000

 
Christendom (Medieval/Renaissance/Puritan)

Reading Assignment
Difficulty, Word Count 
Augustine, Confessions (portion)
Narrative
 ** 300-400 in two parts
Beowulf Thesis/Support  *** 500-700
Henry V Anecdote
 *** 500
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Proverb
 *** 400
Dante, Inferno
Blame (Invective)  **** 400-700
Canterbury Tales (portions) Choice
 ** to **** Varied length
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) Essay Exam
 ** 1 hour for exam
Pilgrim's Progress "Battle With Apollyon" Narrative  ** 350-500
Pilgrim's Progress (Part One) Expository
 *** 500
Paradise Lost Praise  *** 400-700
Poetry Thesis/Support
 *** 400-700

 
Modernity

Reading
Assignment  Difficulty, Word Count
Pride and Prejudice (or other Austen)
Narrative  ** 350-400
Hard Times (or other Dickens) Character Description  *** 350-500
Romantic Poetry Thesis/Support  **  to **** 400-700
History or Biography Reading Proverb  *** 400
"Leiningen vs. the Ants"
(All stories from 21 Great Stories, ed. A. Lass)
Narrative
 ** 300-500
 "There Will Come Soft Rains" Description  ** 300-500
Buchan, Greenmantle Anecdote  **** 500
 "-Ism" Essay Extended Definition  *** 500-800
Short Stories Praise/Blame  *** 400-600
Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby or
Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird or other selection
Speech-in-Character
 *** 250-400
Short Stories Essay Exam  *** 1 hour for exam
 

 
Great Books Writing Workshop (CRT) $100 - 400
Click Here for Product Details! New Option--"Resource Membership"--Access to over thirty Great Books Writing Workshop assignments from Antiquity to Modernity. Or try traditional evaluation packages of up to 4 assignments or up to 10.