Ladies,

As you are planning for next year with Redesigned Year 2, please be aware of a document that used to be an appendix to the "Using Rhetoric Literature" Loom document, but has now been separated out so that you will see it sooner. We called it "Customizing Year 2 Rhetoric Literature."

Since English credits are figured differently, we need you to know that trimming, cutting, and slashing our Year 2 plan for Literature is common. Here's why.

As printed, our Year 2 rhetoric literature plan takes about 7 hours per week for the student to implement (including a 1.5-2 hr. discussion that moms must prepare for). This implementation offers a full high school credit for Literature alone. We offered this full program because it's easier to CUT a program in customizing than to ADD TO a printed plan of study. This printed version provides a full plan for both returning students who have experience with Tapestry from Year 1 and students (still at the rhetoric level) who are new to our approach to literature. Within the Literature credit, you can choose an "Honors Literature" or a "Literature" option. Our chart in this "Customizing Rhetoric Literature" offers a plan for "trimming" the printed plan. Look for the GREEN text in the chart! This would take the printed program from an "Honors Lit." to a "Lit" credit.

Some families want to combine Literature and Composition/Vocabulary/Grammar programs and call their credit "English," however. They simply do not have time in the 7 hours devoted to "English" to implement the Tapestry rhetoric literature as written. And, within this category, some want "Honors English" and others want "English." Obviously, various levels of work are required to earn these credits. For most students who fall into this combined English credit category, the "cutting" option for the TOG plan as printed is highly recommended. Look for the blue and green parts of the chart, and omit all these listings.

Some families really only want to taste the literature of the Middle Ages and 17th and 18th centuries. For them, we offer the "slashing" plan. Using the same handy chart, plan to omit the red, blue, and green shaded selections.

***PLEASE NOTE***
You'll want to look at this chart BEFORE you buy books for Year 2! Trimming, cutting, or slashing may mean that you won't need to buy certain books.

We sincerely hope this chart is helpful to you in customizing the Year 2 plan to fit your family as perfectly as possible!