If you've been following along, you might be thinking, what more can we add to literature lessons during middle and high school?

We'll join us today to take a look at grade 7 through 9 literature lessons in a Charlotte Mason curriculum.

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the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with

Liz Kutrell and Nicole Williams. So far in our series on literature in a Charlotte Mason curriculum,

we've covered all of elementary school, half of our kids' school careers. It's not terrifying.

Yes. So today we're turning to the next group of forms, Forms 3 and 4.

Students are in Form 3 for two years, seventh and eighth grade, and one year in form 4, which is ninth grader, the first year of high school for us here in America.

And these years are really a transition point for a person's development, right?

If you think about your own middle school journey,

probably does not fill you with lots of warm, fuzzy feelings, right?

It's a fraught time.

And so it's a transition from childhood to adulthood, right?

And so their literature lessons are reflecting this transition as well.

They're transitioning from their childhood literature

lessons to their high school and beyond literature reading. So Nicole, will you tell us a little

bit about their program of work? Yeah, hit form three. Their literary feast widens even more.

Across the 40 programs, or almost 40 programs, we can see

each term lists three to ten titles. It varies widely. Six or seven being the average.

There's three strands that are non-negotiables. First of all, Shakespeare was read every term, usually a lighter history

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