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How can I get my kids to read these types of books if they've not been Charlotte Mason educated from the beginning? Where can I combine my children to make our schedule better? How do I know that they are getting anything out of their reading? In today's podcast we are addressing these questions and more as we wrap up our literature series.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
Today, we are talking about the highest level of Charlotte Mason Literature lessons in high school. How do they differ from earlier levels? What sorts of books are assigned? Stay tuned to learn more.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
If you've been following along, you might be thinking, what more can we add to literature lessons during middle and high school? Well, join us today to take a look at grades seven through nine literature lessons in the Charlotte Mason curriculum.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
English Literature for Boys and Girls by HE Marshall
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bullfinch
Shakespeare (Folger and Oxford Editions)
ADE Literature: Forms 3-4 Breakdown
Do we really need to read Shakespeare? I thought all of the books were read during morning lessons. Upper elementary literature lessons in a Charlotte Mason curriculum may just surprise you. Join us today in the podcast to find out all the details.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Heroes of Asgard by Annie and Eliza Keary (black and white or color)
The Age of Fable by Thomas Bullfinch
Shakespeare (Folger and Oxford Editions)
ADE Literature: Forms 1-2 Breakdown
Episode 135: Shakespeare Immersion Lesson
How much should I read in a lesson to my beginning students? Which books are best suited for early elementary school? Stay tuned in to today's podcast episode as we discuss Form 1 Literature Lessons for grades 1-3.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Aesop for Children by Milo Winter
Andersen or Grimm's Fairy Tales
Pilgrim's Progress (Penguin Classic)
Etsy shop for Pilgrim's Progress Map
Tales of Troy and Greece (Yesterday's Classics)
ADE Literature: Forms 1-2 Breakdown
Living Books. These two words are almost synonymous with a Charlotte Mason education. In today's episode we begin our discussion of Literature in a Charlotte Mason curriculum and try to get to the heart of how she used living books in literature lessons.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Are you wondering where to place your kids in Charlotte Mason's streams of history? Are you struggling to teach multiple students in multiple form levels? In today's podcast we are addressing these things and other practical concerns and questions about Charlotte Mason's history lessons.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
What do high school history lessons look like in the Charlotte Mason Method? How do these lessons prepare the students for the rest of their lives? In today's podcast we are discussing these questions and more to help you give your high schoolers a wide feast of history.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
History of the American People by Paul Johnson
Land of Hope by Wilfred McClay
From Dawn to Decadence by Jacques Barzun
Story of Mankind by Hendrik van Loon
Edith Hamilton's Ancient History books:
Book of Centuries at Riverbend Press
Century Charts at Riverbend Press (includes free download option)
Calendar of Events (monthly planner at Juniper Grover)
Episode 112: Notebooks and Paperwork, Part 2
(includes notes on History Tools and keeping track of the chronology rotation)
How do the history streams work? How do I choose which country's history to add as my neighbor's stream? Why can't I study whichever ancient history I want this year? In today's podcast, we're going to be diving into these questions and more as we look at Charlotte Mason history lessons in upper elementary and middle school.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Gerald Johnson's A History for Peter series:
Our Island Story by HE Marshall
The Story of Britain by Patrick Dillon
Dorothy Mills' Ancient History series:
- Book of the Ancient World
- Book of the Ancient Greeks
- Book of the Ancient Romans
- Book of the Middle Ages
Wall Timeline at Riverbend Press
Book of Centuries at Riverbend Press
Century Charts at Riverbend Press (includes free download option)
Calendar of Events (monthly planner at Juniper Grover)
Episode 112: Notebooks and Paperwork, Part 2
(includes notes on History Tools and keeping track of the chronology rotation)
In today's podcast we are digging into what Charlotte Mason history lessons look like in early elementary school. We will cover the scope and sequence and show some helpful resources to make history come alive for our youngest students.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
America Begins by Alice Dalgliesh*
And There Was America by Roger Duvoisin
Meet the North American Indians by Elizabeth Payne*
Land of the Free by Enid La Monte Meadowcroft*
Stories of America, Volume One from Simply Charlotte Mason*
Stories of America, Volume Two from Simply Charlotte Mason
Heart & Soul by Kadir Nelson
America First by Lawton Evans
Wall Timeline at Riverbend Press
Episode 112: Notebooks and Paperwork, Part 2
*For out of print (OOP) or hard-to-find books, try searching at BookFinder.com.
What made Charlotte Mason craft her curriculum around the subject of history? Why is the subject important for today's students? Join us on the podcast for our discussion today as we begin our series on Charlotte Mason history lessons.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Video Explaining History Rotations
Episode 12: The Chronology of History
If you've been following along with our series on Charlotte Mason Bible lessons, you likely have some lingering questions. Where should I place my students in the progression if they've not been doing Charlotte Mason from the beginning? Or where can I, and where ought I not, combine my children? What about specific translations or how to assess my child's progress? We'll do our best to answer these and more in today's podcast.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Episode 224: Combining Multiple Students
Episode 290: Bringing Older Children into the Charlotte Mason Method
In today's podcast we are taking a close look at Charlotte Mason Bible lessons for high school students. Which portions of the scripture did Ms. Mason reserve for our oldest students? How are they equipped to continue reading the Bible on their own after the full feast of Bible lessons from their whole education? And where do they go from here? Listen as we discuss!
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Scripture Journals (ESV and CSB options) on Amazon or here
The One Volume Bible Commentary JR Dummelow*
The Saviour of the World by Charlotte Mason (Amazon for Vol 1-3 or Riverbend Press for all 5 volumes)
The Gospel History of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by C.C. James
Episode 128: Form 1 Bible Immersion Lesson
*For OOP (out of print) or hard to find texts, try BookFinder.com
How do Charlotte Mason Bible lessons change as students get older? Join us for today's discussion on the podcast as we turn to middle school students and answer some common questions like, why can't we continue Bible lessons with the whole family? And how can I help facilitate separate Bible lessons for my older students? Tune in to hear some insight to help navigate these issues, and more!
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
The Old Testament History by Costley-White and Hardwich (online version or hard copy at Living Library Press)
Commentary on the New Testment: The Four Gospels by W. Walsham How*
Scripture Journals (ESV and CSB options) on Amazon or here
Acts of the Apostles by Ellen M. Knox
The Gospel History of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by C.C. James
The Saviour of the World by Charlotte Mason (Amazon for Vol 1-3 or Riverbend Press for all 5 volumes)
Bible: Forms 1-2 Lesson Breakdown
Episode 128: Form 1 Bible Immersion Lesson
*For OOP (out of print) or hard to find texts, try BookFinder.com
This episode of the podcast focuses on what Bible lessons look like in elementary school. You'll learn how often and for how long Charlotte Mason Bible lessons last at this age, how to teach the lessons, and we will share some of our favorite resources with you.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Scripture Journals (ESV and CSB options) on Amazon or here
Bible Art Resources:
- Bible Picture Portfolios
- Bible in Art: New Testament, Richard Muhlberger*
- Bible in Art: Old Testament, Richard Muhllberger*
Bible Atlas Favorites:
Bible: Forms 1-2 Lesson Breakdown
Episode 128: Form 1 Bible Immersion Lesson
*For OOP (out of print) or hard to find texts, try BookFinder.com
Why did Charlotte Mason think that the Bible was the most important subject in a child's school lessons? What portions of the Bible are appropriate for children to read? And why should I include Bible as a lesson if our family already does regular Bible reading or devotions? In today's podcast we are tackling these questions and more as we look at the Bible as a school subject in the Charlotte Mason curriculum.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Are you lacking confidence in choosing your Charlotte Mason curriculum? In today’s podcast we are talking about what a Charlotte Mason curriculum isn't by examining the principles Miss Mason gave us, so we can spread the feast of a living education with confidence.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Episodes on the curriculum:
- Episode 193: The Interdependence of a CM Curriculum
- Episode 266: The Utility of the Charlotte Mason Method
- Episode 280: The Simplicity of the Charlotte Mason Method
Have you ever wondered what makes a curriculum Charlotte Mason or not? Charlotte Mason herself gave us principles based on her idea that children are born persons. This season of the podcast, we are going to be working our way through chapter 10 of volume six and answering that question: What is a Charlotte Mason curriculum? Join us in this episode as we start to answer that question by exploring points 11-15 of her educational principles.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Episode 204: Short Synopsis Points 9-12
Episode 206: Short Synopsis Points 13-15
Episode 5: The Science of Relations
We're back for season 11 of the podcast! Listen to hear about everything that is new at A Delectable Education along with a unique opportunity to read Charlotte Mason along with us.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
- 10 Minute's Map Exercises
- Scansion Lessons - Extra Practice
- Literature Forms 3-4 (English Literature for Boys & Girls and Age of Fable)
- Citizenship Forms 3-4 (The Young Citizen's Reader and Ourselves)
- High School Algebra demonstration lesson
- Form 1-2 Bible demonstration lesson
- A Method for the Madness: Organizing Home and School workshop
- Imagination, The Missing Ingredient workshop
- Conducting a Special Study workshop
- A Point or Two of Correction and Critique: Assessing Your Students’ Compositions workshop
- The Habit of Remembering workshop
- School Planning, One Bite at a Time workshop
ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February, access for 3 months following)
The end of the school year and the end of this podcast season is cause to pause and reflect. The ADE ladies review the past year and encourage you to not just slam the books closed, but pause to remember the good and give thanks. We also encourage you to take some time this summer to listen to old episodes as you plan for the upcoming school year. Finally, we have a big announcement to make about the coming season. We close this episode with a fitting devotional to help you gain perspective on the value of the past year and inspire you for what lies ahead.
Episode 241: Seasonal Reflections
ADE at HOME {Virtual} Conference (First weekend in February each year, access for 3 months following)
As Charlotte Mason Homeschoolers, we all know the challenge it is to find balance in all the other parts of life besides our school lessons. With so many priorities and responsibilities, it is imperative that we continue to evaluate and seek to find balance in our lives. In this podcast episode Emily, Liz, and Nicole discuss the challenges, mistakes, and tips they have for balancing relationships, home responsibilities, service, and ministry opportunities.
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Melissa Petermann's Video: Mindset, Margin, and Tactics
ADE's Teacher Training Videos
ADE's Patreon Community
This season, as we explore finding balance in the Charlotte Mason Method, we are interviewing people who have been able to find balance in their various contexts. This episode is an interview with Sarah Potter who made a big change in her homeschool after graduating the first of her six children and enrolling her remaining students in a not-so-local hybrid CM Cottage School. Sarah shares the factors that led her to make this decision, the hard parts as well as the wonderful benefits her family has experienced being a part of Living Education Academy.
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ADE's Teacher Helps
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Often when we encounter a difficulty in our Charlotte Mason education, the problem lies not in the books and materials, but rather in a mismatch between our expectations and the reality we see before us. In this episode of the podcast, we explore the unbalanced expectations we consciously and unconsciously embrace that are at odds with the outcomes Charlotte Mason expected. In returning to the principles of our educational method, we can find balance, and thereby, peace.
"If we realise that the mind and knowledge are like two members of a ball and socket joint, two limbs of a pair of scissors, fitted to each other, necessary to each other and acting only in concert, we shall understand that our function as teachers is to supply children with the rations of knowledge which they require; and that the rest, character and conduct, efficiency and ability...take care of themselves." (6/241)
"We need not ask what the girl or boy likes. She very often likes the twaddle of goody-goody storybooks, he like condiments, highly-spices tales of adventure. We are all capable of liking mental food of a poor quality." (3/168)
"It is a wide progamme founded on the educational rights of man; wide, but we may not say it is impossible nor may we pick and choose and educate him in this direction but not that...Our part it seems to me is to give a child a vital hold upon as many as possible of those relationships proper to him." (6/157)
"Therefore, if the business of teaching be to furnish the child with ideas, any teaching which does not leave him possessed of a new mental image has, by so far, missed its mark. It is not too much to say that a morning in which a child receives no new idea is a morning wasted, however closely the little student has been kept at his books." (1/173)"If it is the best a child can do and shows interest and effort, then it is satisfactory or 'good'" (Exam Pamphlet)
Episode 272: CM on Children Liking Their Books
Notes of Lessons: Sample lessons from CM trained teachers in her training college
Episode 233: Method of Lessons
Examination and the P.U.S.Pamphlet
ADE's Exam Planner: A Teacher Help for preparing and executing exams for all Form Levels
Charlotte Mason viewed all educational possibilities as fitting into one or the other of two schools of philosophy: Materialism and Idealism. Instead, she offers a "middle way," a new path that draws on the strengths of both schools. The portion of Parents and Children where she discusses these ideas is dense. In this episode of the podcast, Jessica Becker guides us through what Miss Mason had to say, and, more importantly, why it is essential for parents and teachers to find balance between these two educational extremes.
Parents and Children (Volume 2), Charlotte Mason, chapters 11-13
"Probably the chief source of weakness in our attempt to formulate a science of education is that we do not perceive that education is the outcome of philosophy. We deal with the issue and ignore the source. Hence our efforts lack continuity and definite aim. We are content to pick up a suggestion here, a practical hint there, without even troubling ourselves to consider what is that scheme of life of which such hints and suggestions are the output." (2/118)
"Method implies two things-a way to an end, and step-by-step progress in that way." (1/8)
"We need not aspire to a complete and exhaustive code of educational laws. This will· come to us duly when humanity bas, so to speak, fulfilled itself. Meantime, we have enough to go on with if we would believe it. What we have to do is to gather together and order our resources ; to put the first thing foremost and all things in sequence, and to see that education is neither more nor less than the practical application of our philosophy. Hence, if our educational thought is to be sound and effectual
we must look to the philosophy which underlies it, and must be in a condition to trace every counsel of perfection for the bringing-up of children to one or other of the two schools of philosophy of which it must needs be the outcome." (2/119-120)
"Is our system of education to be the issue of naturalism or of idealism, or is there indeed a media via?" (2/120)
"The truth is, we are in the throes of an educational revolution ; we are emerging from chaos rather than about to plunge into it; we are beginning to recognise that education is the applied science of life, and that we really have existing material in the philosophy of the ages and the science of the day to formulate an educational code whereby we may order the lives of our children and regulate our own." (2/119)
"The functions of education may be roughly defined as twofold : (a) the formation of habits; (b) the presentation of ideas. The first depends far more largely than we recognise on physiological processes. The second is purely spiritual in origin, method, and result. Is it not possible that here we have the meeting-point of the two philosophies which have divided mankind since men began to think about their thoughts and ways? Both are right ; both are necessary; both have their full activity in the development of a human being at his best." (2/125)
"For a habit is set up by following out an initial idea with a long sequence of corresponding acts. You tell a child that the Great Duke slept in so narrow a bed that he could not turn over, because, said he, ' When you want to turn over it's time to get up.' The boy does not wish to get up in the morning, but he does wish to be like the hero of Waterloo. You stimulate him to act upon this idea day after day for a month or so, until the habit is formed, and it is just as easy as not to get up in good time." (2/125)
"You may bring your horse to the water, but you can't make him drink; and you may present ideas of the fittest to the mind of the child; but you do not know in the least which he will take, and which he will reject." (2/127)
"Our part is to see that his educational plat is constantly replenished with fit and inspiring ideas, and then we must needs leave it to the child's own appetite to take which he will have, and as much as he requires." (2/127)
"We shall not be content that they learn geography, history, Latin, what not,-we shall ask what salient ideas are presented in each such study, and how will these ideas affect the intellectual and moral development of the child." (2/127)
"We shall probably differ from him in many matters of detail, but we shall most likely be inclined to agree with his conclusion that, not some subject of mere utility, but moral and social science conveyed by means of history, literature, or otherwise, is the one subject which we are not at liberty to leave out from the curriculum of' a being breathing thoughtful breath.'" (2/127-28)
"Two things are necessary. First, we must introduce into the study of each science the philosophic spirit and method, general views, the search for the most general principles and conclusions. We must then reduce the different sciences to unity by a sound training in philosophy, which will be as obligatory to students in science as to students in literature. . . • Scientific truths, said Descartes, are battles won ; describe to the young the principal and most heroic of these battles; you will thus interest them in the results of science, and you will develop in them a scientific spirit by means of the enthusiasm for the conquest of truth; you will make them see the power of the reasoning which has led to discoveries in the past, and which will do so again in the future. How interesting arithmetic and geometry might be if we gave a short history of their principal theorems; if the child were mentally present at the labours of a Pythagoras, a Plato, a Euclid, or in modern times of a Viete, a Descartes, a Pascal, or a Leibnitz. Great theories, instead of being lifeless and anonymous abstractions, would become human, living truths, each with its own history, like a statue by Michael Angelo, or like a painting by Raphael." (2/128)
Atomic Habits, James Clear
String, Straightedge and Shadow, Julia Diggins
Men, Microscopes and Living Things, Katherine Shippen
Nicole's Form 3-4 Biology Science Guide
AWAKEN: A Living Books Conference
Episode 167: Method vs. System
Raphael's School of Athens
Charlotte Mason firmly believed that novels are our greatest teachers, hence why she included them as a major serving in the feast that nourishes our children's education. This episode was recorded live at the ADE At Home conference, February 7, 2025, with Nicole, Emily, and Liz leading a discussion with attendees who had read the book and come to what they gleaned from Miss Gaskell's groundbreaking and somewhat controversial novel, Ruth. If you have read the book, you will enjoy listening to what we all gleaned from this story, and if you have not, you will be inspired to read it.
Sabbath Mood Homeschool's Living Science Curriculum
A Delectable Education's Teacher Helps