Your student’s high-school experience begins with challenge as well as delight. Stiff academic studies are included, to foster that sense of accomplishment that comes from the discipline of effort, along with many enjoyable enrichment studies, to encourage balanced growth for the whole person. 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 ninth 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 ninth-grade student include reading, handwriting, English grammar and spelling, narration, composition, 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.

Handwriting

Your student receives regular opportunities to transcribe lines from his reading of great literature into his 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 first 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. Written narrations increase to four per week, incorporating all four main writing styles (narrative, expository, descriptive, persuasive).

Composition

Your student begins learning how to refine his written narrations, retaining his personal writing voice and honing his ability to write well through The Art of Composition, Year 1.

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 continue the math studies they began in 8th grade, moving to Algebra II when they are ready and continuing their Geometry work at a rate of two days per week.

Science

A conversational Biology textbook is completed that gives the student an introduction to how living organisms are designed, how they interact with one another, and how they interact with their physical environment. Discovering Design with Biology is approachable but also thorough and appropriately challenging for a high school level.

Latin

The study of Latin continues as your student completes the first half of Keep Going with Latin. (The second half will be completed in grade 10.)

Personal Development

Now that your student has gained self-knowledge (studied in grades 7 and 8), he begins the study of self-direction through Charlotte Mason’s volume, Ourselves, Book 2. The first half of Self-Direction is read and discussed this year. (The second half will be completed in grade 10.)

Current Events

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

Family Lessons

Your student is encouraged to form personal relations with art, music, Shakespeare, nature, poetry, handicrafts, singing, foreign language, history, Plutarch, geography, Bible, literature, Scripture memory, and more. 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.