To use language well is to be free.
We think, teach, persuade, and come to understand ourselves in words. To handle language with care is a quiet kind of freedom, and it is the ground every other subject stands on. This is a free, interactive way to rebuild that ground, for your own studies and for your students.
Renewal, not another task.
Teachers are asked to give all day, and most of the advice they are handed is one more technique to add to the pile. The renewal that actually lasts is quieter than that. It is coming back to your own reading, your own writing, your own thinking, the life of the mind that drew you to teaching in the first place.
Tending to that is not time taken away from the work. It is what feeds it. This was built as a gift for exactly that: a free, unhurried place to study, and to grow more sure of the language you live and teach in.
We teach best what we are still learning. To be a good teacher is first to be a good student of the master texts.
Best of all, learn it with your students.
Study it yourself
Work through grammar and composition at your own pace. Read the original texts, do the drills, and rebuild the foundations one lesson at a time. A standing invitation to be a student again.
Walk through it together
Every question is here for students to work through, so you can study a master text side by side, you a step ahead, all of you in the same inquiry. To teach a subject well is, first, to sit down and learn it again.
Two courses, start to finish.
English Grammar
From the alphabet to the parts of speech, number and case, mood and voice, word building, punctuation, and full syntax. Every lesson opens the author's own words, then offers practice built from his exercises.
T. K. Arnold · 1848Composition & Rhetoric
Expressing ideas from experience, imagination, and language; the whole composition; description, narration, exposition, and argument; letter writing; and figures of speech. Faithful to the book, chapter by chapter.
Brooks & Hubbard · 1905Read first, then practice.
Each lesson gives you a short modern primer, then the complete original passage to read, then practice drawn straight from the book. Earn experience, keep a daily streak, and watch your mastery grow as you go.
Built on the classics.
Every lesson is built on public-domain works, free to share with everyone. The modern explanations are written fresh for today's learners, and each author's original wording appears verbatim within the lesson.
- English Grammar. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, An English Grammar for Classical Schools (London, 1848).
- Composition & Rhetoric. Stratton D. Brooks and Marietta Hubbard, Composition-Rhetoric (American Book Company, 1905).
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