Episode 213: Book Discussion: Waverley
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A Charlotte Mason education included the best novels the world had to offer. This episode is a lively discussion of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, a book Miss Mason referred to in all of her six volumes and one of the first English historical novels. To read it is to understand more about Miss Mason, and ourselves.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I just wanted to pop on before our episode today to let you know that we and several |
| 0:07.0 | friends of ours have been undertaking a kind of big project. |
| 0:11.0 | We have translated our schedule cards into four other languages. |
| 0:15.8 | So we have on the schedule card page at the top links to each of the languages that we have. |
| 0:21.2 | We have French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. So we hope that is a help to those |
| 0:28.0 | of you who do not speak English or friends of yours who are studying Charlotte Mason in other parts of the world |
| 0:34.0 | that would like to have scheduled cards in their own languages. |
| 0:37.0 | We do hope to add on to these if you have a language or know someone that speaks a different language |
| 0:44.6 | that would appreciate having scheduled cards made into drop us a line at contact at a |
| 0:49.3 | delectable education.com. This episode of a Delectable Education is brought to you by |
| 0:56.2 | Simply Charlotte Mason's Shakespeare Resource Shakespeare in three steps. These |
| 1:02.4 | teacher resources are really wonderful help for a mom who's |
| 1:07.6 | maybe a little afraid of Shakespeare and knows that Charlotte Mason has that on the schedule for Form 2 and up students, |
| 1:16.0 | but they have never studied Shakespeare themselves or feel really uncomfortable. |
| 1:21.0 | This resource contains the complete script of |
| 1:24.0 | one Shakespeare play with helpful annotations that help you the teacher |
| 1:28.4 | scaffold the lesson and then it even comes with a PDF where you can print off a copy of the script for each of your students so you can read this play together aloud as Charlotte Mason recommended. |
| 1:40.0 | So if you feel uncertain about how to introduce your children to the bountiful |
| 1:46.4 | feast that is Shakespeare or as he is affectionately called the Bard in his |
| 1:52.0 | wonderful contributions to English language. This might be a resource for you. |
| 1:56.3 | You can find more at simply CharlotteMason.com. |
| 2:00.9 | Welcome to a delectable education, the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason method. |
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