The Rhythm
Once out loud, once in ink — a month apart. Four lesson days a week, then Friday for composition. Your formation course carries the speech; a second course carries the essay.
Read for about fifteen minutes — a lesson built from primary sources, not a textbook. Then give it back in a block of about twenty: narration, spoken or written, alternating by day. What was claimed. What backed it. What it connects to. No worksheets, no blanks to fill. Your student reconstructs the argument in their own words because that is how a mind takes possession of an idea.
In the back half of the month that same block turns to composition. The day does not get longer — what fills it changes.
A course day runs roughly 25 to 40 minutes of reading and writing, depending on the lesson. The evening Bookshelf — optional, and as long as you like — is where the rest of the hours come from.
Monday · 5 minutes
At the kitchen table, five minutes. Graded the moment the last one is tapped, in the gradebook by breakfast — and nobody graded anything. Your student walks into the week knowing exactly what held and what didn't.
Rome named the moves two thousand years ago — inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, actio. Your kid will just call it the month.
Four weeks in your formation course. On the last Friday it is delivered to the household.
The same four weeks, in ink. A second course — same shape, argued on the page.
Monday of week four is the other-side day. Your student writes the best version of the case they do not hold — before they finish arguing the one they do.
One speech, four weeks in the making — not one thrown together every Friday.
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