What do high school citizenship lessons look like in the Charlotte Mason method?

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Feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Kutrell and Nicole Williams. In Forms 5 and 6, so that's high school, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades,

the subject of citizenship changes titles, thankfully, because I won't have to say it anymore.

And it was called on the program's everyday morals and economics.

I was impressed with how you said magnanimity.

And I was really glad that you had to say that, not me.

Well, so Nicole, will you tell us what the subject now is going to cover at this level? Yeah, the shift in

title actually reflects the shift in focus a little bit from, well, we'll just talk about that.

So in form five, so this is grades 10 and 11. Had to think about that for a minute. Students read the second book of

ourselves now, and they're going to read that over the course of those two years. And here,

Ms. Mason takes the discussion of the personal character and responsibility to a more mature

territory in a lot of cases, exploring the moral life, exercises of will, and the individual

place, the individual's place in the common good. But alongside of ourselves, students read

works on political theory, economics, and social responsibility. And I'm going to list a few

of them for you just as examples that things that she assigned

were the Crown of Wild Olive by Ruskin, the rights and duties of a citizen by Malden,

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