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?

Today we are discussing these questions and more to help you give your high schoolers a wide feast of history.

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

Mason Method.

I'm Emily Kaiser, and I'm here with Liz Katrille and Nicole Williams.

And today we reach the upper end of history lessons.

These are forms 4 through 6 or high school or 9th through 12th grade, the end of our education

before we pursue secondary education. So Nicole, would you remind us of what the scope of lessons

is at this age? Sure. History continues to expand becoming both broader and more deeply integrated with the rest of the

curriculum at the stage.

Students are reading a lot of history per term at this point, and they're using more advanced

texts described by Ms. Mason as somewhat stiffer than those used in earlier forms.

These books, they remain literary and engaging, but they now demand more of the

students' reasoning and interpretation skills.

At this level, students are typically beginning to make mature connections across subjects.

Instead of studying just one neighboring country now, one change is students in

form four, so ninth grade, and up explore contemporary European history. So that marks the

natural extension of what began in form two, offering a fuller picture of global events at this point.

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