Short lessons in second grade, with an emphasis on full attention and best effort, lay a solid foundation for learning well. Feed your student’s mind through wonderful living books—some challenging and some light—and a wide variety of enrichment subjects. 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

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 (30–40 min)	Math (30–40 min)	Math (30–40 min)	Math (30–40 min)	Math (30–40 min)
Science 40 min)	Science (40 min)	Science (40 min)	Science (40 min)	Science 40 min)
Latin (20 min)	Composition (30 min)	Government (30 min)	Latin (20 min)	Current Events (15 min)

Individual Student Lessons

Individual student lessons in eleventh 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 eleventh-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 his reading of great literature into his own Book of Mottoes, or commonplace book.

Spelling

Prepared dictation continues with longer and more difficult passages from good literature using the first half of Spelling Wisdom, Book 5.

Narration

Both oral and written narration is practiced across the school subjects. Written narrations increase to five 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

Math studies continue logically, using the course of your choice. Many students will be working on Trigonometry by this year, but others will continue work on Algebra II. Math-oriented students may begin some early Calculus work.

Science

Your student receives a solid introductory physics course presented by a university professor in a conversational tone offering plenty of practical applications and experiments to perform right at home using Discovering Design with Physics.

Latin

For those students who want to keep going in Latin, the study can continue with the Cambridge Latin Course, Unit 1.

Personal Development

Your student begins to explore what it means to trust God through reading, narrating, and discussing the first half of John Bunyan’s classic, The Holy War.

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

Enjoyable lessons in history, Plutarch, geography, Bible, literature, art, music, Shakespeare, nature, Scripture memory poetry, handicrafts, foreign language, and singing are spread throughout each week. 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.