As our children move into middle and high school, we can ask them to write in various styles and genres.

Join us today to learn what we can do as teachers to support them in their composition lessons while not diminishing their unique voices.

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Welcome to a delightful education, the podcast that spreads the feast at the Charlotte

Mason Method.

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

Charlotte Mason says, if we would believe it, composition is as natural as jumping and running

to children who have been allowed due use of books.

They should narrate in the first place, and they will compose later readily enough,

but they should not be taught composition.

As we have discussed over the past few episodes, narration forms the foundation

and is really the training ground for composition but as

students move into middle and high school they are asked to do more Nicole can

you tell us what composition looks like at this level yes so in form three

composition expands to many new forms students Students are still going to write straightforward

narrations and short essays, but they're also tackling narrative and descriptive poems, often in

the meter of the terms poet, which they were doing some of in the previous form, but often tied

to history or current events. That was an odd one to me. They may write

ballads on heroic deeds or historical events. They are, you know, as I read these things,

like scenes for a play inspired by literature or history, they aren't narrating the scene. They are writing the scene for the

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