In a Charlotte Mason approach, our children are reading a lot of literature, and we are careful

not to interpose ourselves between the student and the author. We want them to form their

own relation with that author and the ideas that he or she presents. So what do you do when

that child gets into high school, and they're supposed to be studying

the different genre and literary terms and themes and all of this fancy stuff about literature?

How do you encourage that type of learning without stealing the joy from those great literary

books? That's what we want to talk about today. It's possible. Here's how. learning without stealing the joy from those great literary books.

That's what we want to talk about today.

It's possible.

Here's how.

Welcome to the Simply Charlotte Mason podcast.

I'm Sonia Schaefer.

Joining me today is Rochelle Baborana. Rochelle, we're going to talk literature today. And, well, let's back up a minute.

I mean, with all of the good literary books that our children have been reading with a Charlotte-Mason approach,

why do they have to study literature as a course? Wow, you open right up with a

heavy, with a big question. That's right. We're going to cut right to it here. All right. So we'll back

up just a little bit maybe to the beginning because, and this is something I learned from you.

The first time I saw you, you talked about goals in each subject because if you, it's like

reading a map. If you know where you're going, then you can know how to get there. And with Charlotte

Mason, the goals in literature were for the child to enjoy reading and to appreciate good literature to discern between the best

and inferior yes yeah yeah all right so by giving them a steady diet of good literature over the years

we are heading toward that goal we are heading toward that goal.

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