Cursive Copywork for Teens and Adults

What's included (518 pages)

• Start Here6 pageswelcome and what's inside, how the practice pages work (model, trace, faint copy, your turn), meet the four hands, what you need, a twelve-week path and a before-you-begin page
• Warm-Up Drills12 pagespush-pulls, direct and indirect ovals, ascending and descending loops, waves, cups and arches, italic arches, shaded ovals and 4 rhythm pages in all four hands
• Modern Cursive44 pagesmodern cursive, today's everyday joined hand (12° slant): meet the hand, 2 letter-family pages, 13 lowercase and 13 capital pages (big model with start dots and direction marks, trace, faint copy, joined letters, words or names), marks and capital joins, 4 join pages, 5 word pages, 4 sentence pages and an alphabet review
• Spencerian-Inspired Script48 pagesa Spencerian-inspired script with tall loops and light shades on the downstrokes (30° slant): meet the hand, 2 letter-family pages, 13 lowercase and 13 capital pages (big model with start dots and direction marks, trace, faint copy, joined letters, words or names), numbers and marks, 4 join pages, 5 word pages, 8 sentence pages and an alphabet review
• Victorian Script44 pagesa Victorian copperplate-inspired script with thick-and-thin strokes (35° slant): meet the hand, 2 letter-family pages, 13 lowercase and 13 capital pages (big model, trace, faint copy, joined letters, words or names), numbers and marks, 4 join pages, 5 word pages, 4 sentence pages and an alphabet review
• Italic Hand43 pagesan italic hand with a broad-nib look (8° slant): meet the hand, 2 letter-family pages, 13 lowercase and 13 capital pages (big model with start dots and direction marks, trace, faint copy, joined letters, words or names), numbers and marks, 4 join pages, 5 word pages, 3 sentence pages and an alphabet review
• Copywork: Proverbs and Sayings27 pages77 traditional proverbs and sayings from many countries, three a page: read the model, trace it, trace the faint copy, write it twice. The pages rotate through the four hands
• Copywork: Wise Words35 pages79 short quotations from Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Shakespeare, Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, Eliot, Alcott, Montgomery, Carroll, Wilde, Twain, Stevenson, Muir, Tagore, Woolf and more, each with author and source: read, trace, trace the faint copy, copy
• Copywork: Classic Literature29 pages46 famous lines and opening sentences from classic books and plays (Austen, Dickens, Brontë, Tolstoy, Twain, Melville, Shakespeare, Burnett, Kipling, Fitzgerald, Keats, Tennyson and more): read, trace, trace the faint copy, copy
• Copywork: Poetry75 pages45 poems and verses, one stanza or a few lines a page (Shakespeare's sonnets, Wordsworth's Daffodils, Burns, Blake, Dickinson, Rossetti, Invictus, Kipling's If, Trees, Soft Rains, In Flanders Fields, Yeats, Tennyson, Longfellow, Barrett Browning, Jabberwocky, Keats and more): model, trace, then your own copy
• Copywork: Famous Passages21 pages15 famous passages copied a paragraph at a time: the Gettysburg Address, the opening of the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble, The American Crisis, Give Me Liberty, The Man in the Arena, Lincoln's Second Inaugural, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, Moby-Dick, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Walden, Of Studies, Middlemarch and The Secret Garden
• Journaling in Cursive52 pages52 journal pages, each with an original prompt, a warm-up word to trace and lined guide rows in one of the four hands
• Letter Writing40 pages11 model letters to trace (thank-you note, birthday letter, to a grandparent, pen pal, new home, get well, to my future self, thanking a mentor, holiday greeting, invitation to tea, a letter from a trip), each with a your-turn page; openings and closings; 20 card messages; 4 envelope pages (sample addresses are made up); signature practice in every hand; postcards and letter paper
• Guide Sheets16 pages16 blank guide sheets: each hand in three sizes with its own slant lines, 2 copybook pages and 2 bold under-sheets to slip under plain paper
• Progress and Logs6 pagesthen and now page, 2 copywork log pages, a letter checklist for all four hands, a weekly self-check and a page for your favorite lines
• Cover, "How to use this workbook" guide and contents with page numbers
• Section dividers and colored edge tabs for every section, so every section is easy to find in a binder