| Courses Offered | How Tutorials are Conducted |
| Diogenes: Maxim | Fees and Registration |
| Diogenes: Maxim and Chreia |
Note 8/29/08: Space is still available in both the Maxim and the Maxim and Chreia tutorials! Classes begin Friday, September 5.
Our online tutorials, taught by Kathy Weitz, are offered to assist the home educating parent in providing writing instruction for middle school to high school students. These tutorials are structured both for students who have completed the Foundations levels of Classical Writing and also for middle and high school students who are new to Classical Writing and who need to complete the Foundations and Intermediate levels in one school year. For the 2008-2009 school year, we are offering two tutorials:
• Diogenes: Maxim
Beginning essay analysis and writing offered to students 7th grade and
up. This course will cover the fable, narrative, and maxim levels of the
progymnasmata, and apply them to the modern five paragraph essay.
Click here for
specific class details.
• Diogenes: Maxim and Chreia
Accelerated Pace
Essay analysis and writing offered to students 9th grade and up. This
course will cover the fable, narrative, maxim, and chreia levels of the
progymnasmata, and apply them to modern five paragraph and expository
essay. Click here
for specific class details.
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Diogenes: Maxim Online Tutorial
This beginning essay analysis and
writing course will begin with a review of material covered in
Aesop and
Homer.
This course covers the fable, narrative, and maxim levels of the
progymnasmata, and applies them to the modern five paragraph essay.
Students should be at least 7th graders who have
completed Homer OR 9th graders and above who
have some basic grammar and/or classical language background.
If you have any questions about your student's readiness for this
course, please email the tutor at
greengables@weitz.us.
Class meeting time will be Fridays from 11 - 12:30, EST.
Materials Needed:
◊ *Diogenes:
Maxim
◊ Harvey's Elementary Grammar
(available
from Amazon)
◊ *Harvey's
Student Workbook II(optional,
but recommended)
◊ *Harvey's
Answer Key II (optional, but recommended)
*Classical Writing materials will be offered to class participants at
our 20% co-op discount. Do not place your order through our online
store, but include the materials you wish to order in your registration
email.
Please note that the hard copy of the Student Guide is not needed as the
assignments will be provided to you, and the Student Guide is thus
included in the price of the course.
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Diogenes: Maxim and Chreia Accelerated Pace Online Tutorial
We will begin with a very fast-paced review of material covered in
Aesop and
Homer, and then
work our way through both
Maxim and
Chreia. Because of the fast pace and workload that
this will necessitate, we strongly recommend that students be at least
in 9th grade. Some exceptions may be made for 8th grade students
who have completed Homer, or who a very strong grammar and/or classical language background.
If you have any questions about your student's readiness for this
course, please email the tutor at
greengables@weitz.us.
Tutorial meeting time will be Fridays from 12:45-2:15, EST.
Materials Needed:
◊ *Diogenes:
Maxim
◊ *Diogenes:
Chreia
◊ Harvey's Elementary Grammar
(available
from Amazon)
◊ *Harvey's
Student Workbook II(optional,
but recommended)
◊ *Harvey's
Answer Key II (optional, but recommended)
*Classical Writing materials will be offered to class participants at
our 20% co-op discount. Do not place your order through our online
store, but include the materials you wish to order in your registration
email.
Please note that the hard copy of the Student Guides are not needed as the
assignments will be provided to you, and the Student Guides are thus
included in the price of the course.
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Our online tutorials
are live audio and chat sessions that meet for an hour and a half once a
week during the school year. The students and online tutor log in to a
virtual classroom using web conferencing at the appointed time and then are able
to communicate via audio, chatboxes, and whiteboards. Current lessons
and assignments are discussed and the work for the next week is
previewed.
Both PC and Mac users are able to
participate, but a highspeed connection is strongly
recommended (DSL, cable, wireless, satellite, etc.).
Each week, the online tutor will provide student assignments and
exercises. These assignments and exercises are drawn from the
Classical Writing student workbooks and guides, and therefore are
subject to our copyright policy. They should not be shared outside
of the registered families, either printed for distribution or posted on
the internet in any form.
The students will complete all Classical Writing assignments at home.
The online tutor will provide answers to assigned exercises as well as
editing and evaluation checklists for all writing projects. The home
educating parent will be responsible for evaluation and grading.
We do recommend that the home educating parent sit in on the tutorial whenever
possible.
There is a class forum where students are encouraged to post writing
projects and other assignments. The tutor will be looking these
over in order to assess class progress and needs. These posts, however,
will not be evaluated or graded.
We are offering an evaluation and grading option. Students
can submit up to fifteen writing projects via email for the year for evaluation
and grading at an additional fee for each one.
All Harvey's Grammar exercises will be completed and checked by home
educating parent. (Answer keys to
Harvey's Elementary Student Workbooks are available to
assist in this.) Questions and problems in these exercises will be
addressed in class as time permits, or via email.
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Total cost for each online tutorial is $450, which includes:
1.
Registration fee:
$50 per student per course; due at time of registration to secure
placement. Non-refundable (unless course is cancelled).
2. Tuition fee:
$400 per student per course; due by August 25. Tuition payments
are non-refundable (unless course is cancelled).
If you prefer to pay the tuition in two installments, an additional
processing fee of $40 will be charged. First tuition payment of
$240 is due by August 25, second tuition payment of $200 is due by
January 15.
Books are not included in tuition, but Classical Writing materials are
available at our 20% co-op discount for class members. To receive
the discount, orders must be submitted via email at the time of
registration.
All fees and payments are non-refundable due to server lease
committments.
Writing Project Evaluation:
The fee for writing project evaluation and grading is $10 per writing project, due via Paypal at the time of submission. Writing projects must be submitted for evaluation within one week of the assignment due date.
Late Fee:
There will be a $25 late fee for payments postmarked more than 10 days after their due date and for late registrations.
Send an e-mail Kathy Weitz at
greengables@weitz.us to register and we
will send
you a registration form, a book order form, and payment instructions.
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