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Blue Workbook

A Complete Course for Young Writers, Aspiring Rhetoricians, and Anyone Else Who Needs to Understand How English Works
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Blue Workbook is one of four workbooks in the Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind series by Susan Wise Bauer. It offers detailed exercises focusing on correct English grammar, drawing from classic literature and both historical and contemporary scientific texts.

Combined with its Key and Core Instructor Text, it comprises a complete year-long course covering everything from basic grammar definitions to advanced sentence structure and analysis, helping students write and speak with confidence and eloquence.
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One of four Workbooks in the Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind series, Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind: Blue Workbook provides detailed, well-designed exercises in the correct use of English grammar, based on great works of literature as well as classic and contemporary works of science and history.

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One of four Workbooks in the Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind series, Blue Workbook provides detailed, well-designed exercises in the correct use of English grammar, based on great works of literature as well as classic and contemporary works of science and history.

Blue Workbook, along with the accompanying Key and the Core Instructor Text, make up a full year of Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind: a complete course that takes students from basic definitions ("A noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or idea") through advanced sentence structure and analysis—all the grammar skills needed to write and speak with eloquence and confidence.

Series: Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind

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  • Blue Workbook
    One of four Workbooks in the Grammar for the Well-Trained Mind series, Blue Workbook provides detailed, well-designed exercises in the correct use of English grammar, based on great works of literature as well as classic and contemporary works of science and history. Blue Workbook, along with the accompanying Key and the Core Instructor Text, make up a full year of...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781945841323

Publisher: Peace Hill Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 August 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: The Well-Trained Mind Press

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Patty Rebne
  • With Audrey Anderson
  • With Amanda Saxon Dean

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 36.0mm

Width: 218.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 1530g

Pages: 641

About the Author

Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary. Audrey Anderson is an international development professional specializing in programming for women and girls. Her background includes program design, strategy, management and evaluation, with field experience in gender-focused programming and education in Latin America, Africa and Asia. In addition to Audrey's work with the Well-Trained Mind, she has contributed to the development of curricula for life skills programs for adolescent girls around the world. Audrey holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary, and a master’s in International Education and Development from George Washington University. Patty Rebne grew up in Colorado, where she earned a BA and an MBA. Most of her grammar, she learned from her mother, an award-winning journalist. To earn a living, Patty taught high school, delivered packages for UPS, marketed and sold software as a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft, inscribed Christmas cards, and wrote fortune-cookie fortunes. She and her husband Glenn live near Seattle; they have a grown son who was mostly homeschooled, guided by The Well Trained Mind with generous additions of ski days and road-trips. Patty likes the physical action of handwriting, and does photography and cross stitch in her ample spare time.

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