Your tenth-grade student is advancing toward the goal of self-education—step by step, layer upon layer. Each year of high school encourages continuous progress without overloading your student or extinguishing that important love for learning. The curriculum is designed as a wonderful combination of Individual student lessons, done one-on-one with the teacher, and Family lessons, done with all of your students together.

Sample Schedule

With the Family lessons and the Individual student lessons, each day’s work should take about three and a half or four hours to complete. In a Charlotte Mason education, much can be accomplished in a short amount of time because the student is being trained in the habit of full attention and the lessons are not tedious.

Day One	Day Two	Day Three	Day Four	Day Five
Family Lessons (90 min)	Family Lessons (90 min)	Family Lessons (90 min)	Family Lessons (90 min)	Family Lessons (90 min)
Math (30 min)	Math (30 min)	Math (30 min)	Math (30 min)	Math (30 min)
Science 40 min)	Science (40 min)	Science (40 min)	Science (40 min)	Science 40 min)
Latin (15 min)	Composition (30 min)	Spelling (15 min)	Self-Direction (20 min)	Spelling (15 min)
			Latin (15 min)	Current Events (15 min)

Individual Student Lessons

Individual student lessons in tenth grade include the subjects of language arts, math, science, Latin, personal development, and current events. These are the subjects that should be taught and mastered at your child’s pace.

Language Arts

Language Arts for your tenth-grade student include reading, handwriting, English grammar and spelling, narration, and literary analysis.

Reading

Most school books are read independently at this level. The curriculum includes a mixture of classics and modern, challenging and light reading, and original source documents.

Handwriting

Your student receives regular opportunities to transcribe lines from her reading of great literature into her own Book of Mottoes, or commonplace book.

English Grammar and Spelling

Prepared dictation continues with longer and more difficult passages from good literature using the second half of Spelling Wisdom, Book 4. English grammar reviews from those same passages are recommended.

Narration

Both oral and written narration is practiced across the school subjects. Four written narrations are required per week, incorporating all four main writing styles (narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive). Oral narration continues to help cultivate public speaking skills.

Literary Analysis

Your student goes beyond traditional literary analysis with open-ended narration questions and deep discussions of character and plot using Great Book Discussions.

Math

Students may complete Algebra II during this year, connecting the Algebra and Geometry work they have been working on for the past two years. Some students may be ready to start on Trigonometry at some point in the year.

Science

A conversational Chemistry textbook is completed that covers fundamental aspects of chemistry, weaving together concepts and their mathematical applications. Discovering Design with Chemistry is approachable but also thorough and appropriately challenging for a high school level.

Latin

The study of Latin continues as your student completes the second half of Keep Going with Latin. (The first half was completed in grade 9.)

Personal Development

The study of self-direction through Charlotte Mason’s volume, Ourselves, Book 2, is completed as the second half of Self-Direction is read and discussed. (The first half was completed in grade 9.)

Current Events

Current events are read and discussed using articles in World magazine, The World and Everything In It podcast, or The Pour Over.

Family Lessons

A feast of art, music, history, Shakespeare, Plutarch, nature, foreign language, poetry, geography, Bible, handicrafts, singing, literature, and Scripture memory continues to be spread.Correlating these subjects, your student continues work on a personal timeline project, My Book of Centuries. Select your choice of History, Geography, and Bible guide and Enrichment Studies. If you are teaching only one student, the Family lessons can easily be done one-on-one.

Shopping List

For a complete Charlotte Mason curriculum, add the history time period and Enrichment Studies of your choice. You can combine all your students for these Family lessons.