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🗓️ 14 November 2025
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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
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| 0:00.0 | Do we really need to read Shakespeare? I thought all the books were read during morning lessons. |
| 0:07.3 | Upper elementary literature lessons into Charlotte Mason curriculum may just surprise you. Join us in this |
| 0:12.7 | episode to find out all the details. Living Book Press provides carefully transcribed living books, |
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| 0:24.5 | With over 400 titles, LivingbookPress.com makes it finding resources for your Charlotte |
| 0:29.3 | Mason journey easy. |
| 0:30.8 | Use code A-D-E for 10% off everything. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to a delightful education, the podcast that spreads the Feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Ketrel. |
| 0:41.9 | And Nicole Williams. |
| 0:43.4 | Last time we discussed the details of Form 1 literature lessons. |
| 0:47.9 | And today we're moving on to Form 2. |
| 0:50.9 | This form includes grades 4 through 6. |
| 0:53.5 | Children are between the ages of nine and 12, |
| 0:56.2 | roughly, uh, in these grades. And as in form one, this form is also divided into the very confusing |
| 1:03.3 | B first for the first year, B for beginner, and A for the last two years or A for advanced. |
| 1:16.6 | And so fourth grade for 2B, fifth and sixth grade for 2A. Nicole, will you tell us what types of literature form two students read? |
| 1:21.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.6 | Okay. |
| 1:23.6 | So we see, we have 38 programs in a row that we can look at. And on those, we see that |
| 1:30.4 | Charlotte Mason assigned, or whoever was doing the program at the time, between three and seven |
| 1:36.0 | titles each term. But don't be afraid. The average for one was four. But we're going to go over |
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