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A Word in Season Publications

Building an Idea

     The first step in using A Word in Season Language Arts Curriculum is to read the publication Building an Idea: A Guide Book for a Christian Approach to Teaching the Arts of Reading and Writing to all Ages K-12. This practical manual is designed for teaching a writing program for all ages. Created for teachers, this comprehensive guide explains a workable method for establishing a weekly writing workshop. This book provides a great deal of helpful information for presenting language arts: listening, imitating, reading, thinking, speaking, and writing. The introduction relates the problems of illiteracy beginning in the mid-twentieth century and shows a biblical illustration from the life of David of how parents can provide for their child's future. The book includes a discussion of a writing teacher's role, an outline of skills to be taught, methodology for teaching specific skills, and a design for teaching language arts.

Authors, Authors

     The book Authors, Authors is a chronological annotated bibliography of the best writers of western culture from the beginning of times through 1800. This unique book lists each author's name, works, and brief biographical information in chronological order and is a primary reference source used extensively in Units 1-4. This book, listing the Great Books, is a must for the teacher interested in using primary sources to teach humanities.

Literature of Beginnings

     An anthology of selections from ancient literature was originally published by American Heritage Press in 1995. This book contains out-of-print and hard-to-find selections and is the textbook of Unit 1: Ancient Times. Now out of print, this book is now available on compact disk.

Reference Handbook

     A Word in Season Reference Handbook is a handy reference guide for various definitions of literature, writing, and history. It includes essential information on the basic elements of literature, characteristics of epic poems, the basics of writing, creative writing aids, proper manuscript form and style, editing marks and information on expository writing, essay evaluation, proper outline form, and other types of writing formats and content. This invaluable guide for the student, parent, and teacher is included on each study unit CD but can be purchased as a separate compact disk.

A Journey Towards Reality: A Teenagers Fairytale

      Journey is a unique anthology written by students who race the story of men's ideas from ancient through modern times. Written in the form of a framed-tale, the class humorously carries on a commentary of their travels through time in their search for reality. Interspersed are stories they relate to each other along their way of imagination. Besides being entertaining, this 114-page collection is instructive, for is shows examples of various types of student writing. Designed like a child's storybook, this student anthology contains original pen and ink illustrations, Journey is recommended as a complement to any of  A Word in Season study units.

Study Units

     The Teacher's Edition CD of each study unit contains a copy of the A Word in Season Reference Handbook, Teacher's Guide (with helpful information about that unit and student writing samples), Teacher's Syllabus (with valuable teaching notes), Appendices, books required, and a "Literature of" anthology of selected readings specifically created for the study unit. Also a complete and extensive Reading List and Annotated Bibliography for each study unit is included on the CD-ROM. Curriculum study units can be purchased and used individually or as part of a complete four-year program. Each study unit comes complete on its own CD.

     The Student's Edition CD of each study unit consists of the A Word in Season Reference Handbook, Student's Guide (with helpful information for the student), Student's Syllabus (with useful study hints for the student), Appendices, books required, the "Literature of" anthology of selected readings, and the Reading List and Annotated Bibliography for that study unit.