FREE RECITATION HELPS! * Sage Parnassus

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I hope you have enjoyed Maria's posts on recitation in a Charlotte Mason education - That They Might Delight in Knowing and Ruminating on Recitation. In our conversations on the topic, I told her about how important I thought recitation is and about how many times I have heard my grown children pull out a line or two from things they recited many, many years ago. About how I've seen those lines comfort them in distressing times or make them laugh during silly occasions. But I do have one regret. I wish that I had kept better records. Such a simple thing, yet in the busyness of the day-to-day schooling, most of the time I left the keeping of that information to them and I didn't oversee it. Yes, their recitation pieces are now in their hearts yet many have been forgotten. Yes, there are those that are recorded in their copywork as well as in my homeschool records but much has been lost over the years.

I asked Maria if she would put together a simple yet helpful sheet of guidelines for recitation and then a log for each student so that mothers could have a clear way to keep a record of those beautiful words. Besides, I do still have 2 students at home myself, teach a large group at TBG, and am always encouraging other moms in this living subject! Below you will find the recitation helps that she so graciously designed for me to share with you. Please don't feel like you need to have every type of recitation going every term. I don't think there was EVER a time when I did. Just let it be a guide and a reminder of the many varieties of this discipline and strive to maybe add a little more each year. I hope that this will be a convenient way for you to understand, schedule, and record all the wonderful words that your students will delight in. And please share any feedback you might have about the forms!

Teaching from peace,

Nancy

UPDATE NOTE: "I would like to thank Richele Baburina for fruitful conversation that led to the revision of this recitation guide. While there is evidence of Euclid propositions being recited during number lessons in the upper forms, there is no evidence that these were recited during a formal repetition lesson as part of the recitation curriculum for a given term. In consideration of these facts, the Euclid example has been removed from the Forms 5-5 details." - Maria Bell

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