Episode 325: Citizenship Part 3, Forms 3 & 4
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
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🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Is Plutarch all there is to Citizenship? Not at all. Middle school students in Forms 3-4 take up the definite study of their local, state, and national government, as well as turn their attention upon themselves to learn how they are capable of engaging the world and their neighbors. Tune in to the podcast today to hear more.
Charlotte Mason, Volume 6 (Amazon) (Living Book Press - use code DELECTABLE for 10% off!)
ADE Vol 6, Chapt 10 Reading List
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, trans. by Thomas North*
Anne White's Plutarch Project (Amazon or free on AmblesideOnline.com)
Ourselves by Charlotte Mason (Riverbend Press softcover or Amazon - Vol. 1 and Vol. 2)
Atlases (discussed in Episode 324):
- Ancient and Classical Geography*
- Rand McNally's Atlas of the Ancient World, ed. by RR Palmer*
- Muir's Historical Atlas of Ancient Medieval and Modern*
- Digital map resources at Grammaticus.co
Episode 178: Plutarch Immersion
*for out of print - OOP - or difficult to find books, try BookFinder.com
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| 0:00.0 | Is Plutarch all there is to citizenship? Not at all. Middle school students informs |
| 0:05.9 | three through four take up the definite study of their local, state, and national government, |
| 0:11.5 | as well as turn their attention upon themselves to learn how they are capable of engaging |
| 0:16.4 | the world and their neighbors. Equipping rising learners, inspiring thinkers, climbing higher math |
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| 0:46.9 | that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with |
| 0:51.1 | Liz Coutrerell and Nicole Williams. |
| 1:02.3 | Well, Charlotte Mason tells us children familiar with the great idea of a state in the sense not of a government, but of the people. |
| 1:06.7 | Learn readily enough about the laws, customs, and government of their country. |
| 1:13.3 | Learn too, with great interest, something about themselves, mind and body, heart and soul because they feel it as well to know what they have it in them to give to their country |
| 1:17.7 | Nicole can you share with us what Charlotte Mason used to give children these ideas yes |
| 1:24.2 | in forms three and four they continue with Plut, which was begun just for two years before this. |
| 1:32.1 | And most of the time, the same life was assigned from Form 2A through Form 4. |
| 1:38.6 | Yes, everyone's doing the same one. |
| 1:39.9 | Fourth grade through ninth grade. |
| 1:42.1 | Fifth grade. |
| 1:43.0 | Sorry, fifth grade through ninth grade. Very good. Sorry, fifth grade through ninth grade. |
| 1:44.5 | Very good. |
| 1:46.1 | Again, with those emissions. |
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