Writing & Rhetoric Book 5: Refutation & Confirmation - Student Edition

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This item is new, as advertised, and arrived before scheduled. Thank you!

I was tasked with using these books with 8th graders. To be fair, we began with level 5, which is below grade level. That said, I ,as the teacher, cannot get through the books myself. The entire series is written by one author. This makes the for a very narrow perspective. I am also frustrated by the literature used as examples. They are not the original source material and therefore suffer from the paraphrase chosen by the author. He also spends a great deal of time introducing his own definitions of narrative and rhetoric while giving the students precious little chance to write. I prefer a curriculum that gets the students writing more and sooner.