Nancy Kelly -Guidance for Your Charlotte Mason Homeschool and Life
Moral Development Having looked briefly at what Charlotte Mason included in her curriculum for Citizenship in Part I, followed by magnanimous citizens as the outcome of education in Part II, let us now talk about the moral development of students and how Citizenship as well as the rest of her curriculum contributes to this. As with each of the subjects…
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Magnanimity Let’s continue to look at how Charlotte Mason viewed the subject of Citizenship! In Part I, we examined the overall concept and focused on some of the literature used in this topic. In Part II, we will go deeper with the concept of magnanimity. Magnanimity is a word that is seldom used today. It often accompanies references to citizens…
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I do not remember any teaching that related to Citizenship during my school days in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. In fact, back when I was in the ninth grade, I found myself sitting in the oak-laden, century-old auditorium at the end-of-the-year awards assembly. For the final presentation, the principal approached the podium. He then went on to announce…
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Do you appreciate your routines? I love the habits our family has established that help our days flow smoothly. However, I also feel the need for new ways of doing things or fresh ways of looking at the world around me. At one point, after homeschooling for over a decade, I decided to start our Truth, Beauty, Goodness Community. That…
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A Guest Post by Dawn Duran My post today about Plutarch and living ideas is not by me but by my friend, Dawn Duran! You might know Dawn as the author of the definitive Swedish Drill guides over at swedishdrill.com. She is also a bit of a Plutarch fangirl (like me) and has written many wonderful articles for Common Place…
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Who could live if every mouthful of bodily food were held up on a fork for critical examination before it be eaten? -Charlotte Mason, Volume 5, p. 295 Problems with Teaching Critical Thinking How do you teach critical thinking, analysis, or literary criticism? Specifically, what did Charlotte Mason have to say about critical thinking? I had the same question when…
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I am often asked by parents why we read Shakespeare in a living education. Let me answer by quoting author Gertrude Slaughter, sharing wisdom from Charlotte Mason, and telling about a few of my own experiences. “Many a child has entered into Shakespeare’s Temple of the human spirit and come forth charged with a knowledge far beyond his present or…
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I’ve been teaching some aspect of the writing process for over 25 years. Because we homeschool, I get to show the preschooler how to hold a pencil and the high schooler when to use parenthetical documentation. Early years are full of copywork, dictation and written narrations while the later years are spent studying the masters – E.B. White, William Strunk, William…
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I have been mentoring other moms in the homeschool community for over 25 years. It wasn’t until about 12 years ago that the Lord led me to offer my mentoring services to the world at large. I was seeing that I could offer the encouragement and support to sweet mamas that I was interacting with online or that I met…
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