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Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte

Mason Method.

I am temporarily the host today, Liz Catrill and I'm here with

Emily Kaiser and Nicole Williams. We each introduce ourselves so you'll know

which voice goes with which person.

I am very excited about today's topic because it is one that quite literally is beyond my comprehension to some extent because we are going to

tackle maps in the learning of maps and the making of maps in a Charlotte Mason education. Of course I did study maps when I was in school, but since I had to go to special classes because I was a blind student, I had very different kinds of ways of doing mapping.

We often traced with a stylus on paper.

We had lovely maps of different continents, the North American continent, the South American

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