Contents

Volume II

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Introduction to Volume II.......................................................................... 1

Community Consultation ..........................................................................2
Participating, Conversing, Assembling, Constructing, and Seeing
Reality as a Whole........................................................................................3
4. Creatively PayingAttentionWhenPlayingaSymphony...........................................4
5. A Personal, Intense Experience of the Heightened Right Brain
and a Reflection on the Potential Harmony of Both Brain
Hemispheres and Hands.............................................................................5
6. Gass and Aurobindo on Sounds We First Hear And Their
Lasting Impression.......................................................................................9
7. Sounds of Sentences...................................................................................10
8. QuickReviewofVolumeIandOverviewofVolumeII...................................11
9. The Only One: The Unified, Holistic, Integral Image ...................... 13
10. The Hand Depicting the Structure of the Book.................................14
11. Review of the 3 Tongues from Volume I.............................................. 15

Part 3 The Second Movement: The Father Tongue

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TheSecondMovement:TheFatherTongueSectionPage............................................22
The Weight and Worth of Words ....................................................... 23
The Writing Course or Path.................................................................... 31
Introduction to the Paragraph and Student Essays on the
Paragraph ..................................................................................................... 35
Creative Writing Process and Student Esssays on It...................... 58
Effective Writing and Criteria for Good Style...................................91
Introduction to Writing with Zinsser ............................... 92
Alliterative Participles, Nouns, and Adjectives for
Attitudes of the Writer and Style................................ 99
Motto for Writing and Writing Style Tips......................102
5 Hallmarks of Good Writing .............................................103
Rubrics for Rating Compositions ......................................106
Traditional Rhetorical Essay Forms in Sets of 3 .............108

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Professional Model and Student Essays of the following Classical

Essay Forms:
Narrative ......................................................... 109
Descriptive...................................................... 144
Comparative....................................................177

Model and Student Essays of the Character Sketch ..................... 219

Student Autobiographies ......................................................................252
Student Final Exam Essays with Required Forms .......................348
Remaining Forms of the Essay Classical and Contemporary. 406
Examples and Features of the 5 Prevalent Essay Forms ..............407
3 Academic and Journalistic Short or Extended Essay
Forms ......................................................................................................... 409
8 Methods of Analyzing an Essay with Analysis of the Essay
Salvation by Langston Hughes ...............................................................417
Parting Thoughts about the Essay and Going Forward to
the Imaginative Tongue ......................................................................... 421

Part 4 The Third Movement: The Imaginative

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An Affair of Flutes by Ortega y Gasset...................................................430

Introduction to Imaginative Tongue..................................................433
Presenting A New, Basic Core Method of Reading .......................452
The Meaning Unit................................................. 454
Chunking .................................................................458
The Beautiful Pauses by May Sarton.......................465
Scrittage and the 3 Vs............................................466
3 Kinds of Orality ...................................................470

The 3 Key Parts of Components to the New Method of

Reading.......................................................................................................473
5 Major Consequences of the Entire New Method of Reading..474
1st reform of reading; role of Silence in language;
micro-level analysis of sentence....................................474
2nd reading out loud.......................................................... 484
3rd return of oratory ...........................................................495
4th memory and public speaking ....................................497
5th importance of poetry ...................................................502
Quotes on poetry........................................................................ 503
Selections of Liked but Under-Appreciated Poetry .......... 513

5 Sets of Guidelines for Reading and Interpreting Literature ....540

1st Guideline Effective Reading Skills, 5 Roles of the
Active Reader, and the Rewards of Reading......................... 543

2nd Guideline Nabokov on Interpreting Literature................. 551

3rd Guideline Goddard on Interpreting Literature................... 554
4th Guideline Francine Prose on Reading and Writing .......... 564
5th Guideline Value of Imagination for Life,
Literature, and Education ......................................................... 570
Value of Imagination for Life, Literature .............................571
Universality of Storytelling .................................................... 577
Some Very Short Stories .........................................................584
A Longer Short Story by Thomas King................................ 601
Pervasiveness of Metaphor and Story.................................. 621
The Importance of Imagination in Education................... 624

Part 5 The Closing

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Introduction to The Closing.................................................................630

Chart for Recommended English Curriculum .................................631
Extended Excerpt from The Transformative Vision ............................ 632
More About the Symphonic Assemblage, Novel Genres,
and New Instructional Strategies....................................................... 639
Origins of Symphonic Assemblage..............................................639
Precursors ........................................................................................ 646
Novel Genres of Age of Maturity.................................................658
New Instructional Strategies .......................................................670
Collaborative Writing................................................................. 670
Collaborative Reading................................................................. 678
Teaching Poetry with Music......................................................680

Tips and Notes on the Assemblage Process ..............................686

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4 Schools of Thought on Composition and Their Proponents...689

Recommendations of Books and Tips on Writing.........................690
30 Intelligences.........................................................................................696
25 Principles for Doing Research........................................................746
Additional Materials on Grammar ..................................................... 755

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Supplementary Sentence Forms.......................................................... 766

All Short Codes ........................................................................................ 785
Research Roundup.................................................................................. 797
Biographic Notes on the Co-Assemblers...........................................818

More on the 12th Kind of Word, the Other............................ 755

Sentence Form Analytics......................................................... 759
Adjunct Nouns........................................................................... 763