Rhetorical traditions and their modern interpretation: learning algorithms for narration

In the article in ontological and methodological terms is considered the phenomenon of rhetoric as narrative text. The article substantiates the necessity of changing the educational paradigm in the teaching of the Russian language, taking into account the important role of rhetoric in the process. There are three components of the narrative text as a rhetorical phenomenon: 1) narrative as a sequence of predicates, 2) a set of rules and models of the narrative transformation, 3) a set of rules and models of narrative distribution. Are analyzed in detail two modes of narration: the story and the show. Provides specific examples illustrating the steps involved in constructing a rhetorical narrative. As illustrative material used in the article as an original literary texts and texts from manuals in the style of the XIX century. The article provides a learning algorithm to create a rhetorical narrative. There are the following stages of this process: oral and written retelling of narrative texts, transformed retelling, an expanded paraphrase, compilation of texts for this model. The article also contains the author's reflections about the place of rhetoric in the modern educational process.