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Speaking to persuade
Classical rhetoric applied: students write, deliver, and revise six speeches, and are required once to persuade the room of something they do not believe.
New this term. Reviews from students and parents appear here once families have taken it.
Every student speaks every week. The course moves through invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery, and treats the camera as a room. Recordings of a student’s own delivery are the primary feedback instrument, released only to the student and their guardians.
This course accumulates. The class reads the same pages at the same pace and each meeting picks up the argument where the last one left it, so joining halfway means joining an argument already in progress.
Because there is a whole body of work at the end of it, this one is graded (letter) and can be carried to a transcript. Enroll before the second meeting.
Weeks 1–3
Finding the available means of persuasion; the first two-minute speech.
Weeks 4–6
Structure, the six-part oration, and cutting.
Weeks 7–9
Figures, rhythm, and the discipline of the plain sentence.
Weeks 10–12
Voice, pace, and eye contact on camera; the assigned-opposition speech.
Weeks 13–14
An eight-minute graded speech before the full section.
Rhetoric II reader
Odysseus Lyceum
Aristotle, Cicero, and modern examples, supplied at no cost.
Skill-focused. Students choose their own subjects and are graded on craft, not on the position taken.
Read our academic philosophyMeetings are recorded and released to enrolled families for fourteen days. Recordings capture the instructor and shared materials; student video is not published.
Full refund up to seven days before the first meeting; inside seven days, everything paid is credited to your Lyceum balance. No refunds or credits once the class has begun. Cancel any section from your parent account.
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Students and parents review separately, on different questions, and the two aggregates are never blended. Every review is verified and moderated.
No parent reviews for this class yet.
Reviews from students are published as “Student, age 13”, never with a full name. Photo and short video reviews are supported and moderated before they appear.
Great Books
A whole-book seminar
Douglass in his own words: the Narrative read whole, plus the Fourth of July speech, with attention to how a man argued his way into freedom.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$8/wk
$56 in total
$22.40 for add’l siblings
Character & Virtue
The first stories that teach · Ages 5–7
Two fables a week, read aloud and then talked about. The oldest way of teaching a child what a person ought to do, and still the best.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
$6/wk
$42 in total
$16.80 for add’l siblings
Character & Virtue
What kind of person are you becoming?
A free five-week conversation about courage, temperance, justice and prudence, with short readings and a genuinely honest room.
Ms. Imani BellNew this term
Reviews appear once families have taken it.
Free
