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Composition for High School
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WHat is your plan for 9th-12th. I have everything picked out except this.
I really need some suggestions.
Thank you
I have a son that’s about to be done with his senior year. We just have him read and write. He reads whatever he’s assigned in history or science or whatever literature book. Then we have him write different kinds of reports. Sometimes it’s a 10 page research project, and sometimes it’s just a page off the top of his head (and everything in between).
He just needs to be responsible for what he knows about structure, paragraphs, spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc. When we need help knowing if he’s right, we just use a grammar handbook to check it.
His writings have improved greatly in the last couple years. In fact, we’re extremely pleased with the result of just doing it and not having lessons that don’t relate to anything. I’ve never wanted a formal composition program–I guess that goes with Charlotte Mason.
Hope that helps.
My oldest is in her grade 10 year and has always been homeschooled. Narration, first oral and then written is composition and offers excellent training for the formal writing necessary at the High School level. We have done no ‘writing curriculum’, as I have been so thrilled with the excellence I see in our children’s writing with narration as their practice ground.
Last year, my oldest began to attend a homeschool high school co-op once a week. In one of her classes, she was required to write an essay, which she had never done before. All that was necessary was for me to spend about 15-30 minutes explaining the format of an essay and she was off. Really, the basic structure of an essay is very simple. The difficult part is knowing how to make writing engaging and interesting, which is where narration plays such a valueable roll.
(Oh, and…she got an A!! This was pretty much her first time being ‘marked’ by someone outside the family, so although she wrote it all by herself, I felt like I got an ‘A’, too!)
What abouth those highschoolers that haven’t been homeschooled the whole time? We’ve only homeschool for a couple of years, and this was our first CM year. I feel like I failed miserably in the narration/ composition department. I have no idea what to require of him, and he has no idea how to get his thoughts out of his head.
I totally agree with the format not taking long to teach…he’s very bright, and I know he could pick that up quickly. He has just read all these books this year, and since he hasn’t written anything we have nothing to show for it. I feel I needed to have him “act on” some of the information he was taking in so he could “make it his own” but…I just didn’t know what to do.
CM is very intimidating as far as trying to do it successfully with an older student who hasn’t been a CM’er all along.
blessed mom, I can SO relate to what you have said. My son will be a senior next year and since I have not taught him with the CM method all of his school years I did not know WHAT to do with him for writing. I used Epi Kardia to teach him essay writing and that worked well. And I also have the SCM A Charlotte Mason Guide to Language Arts Handbok which is very helpful to me. And Sonya pointed out to me at my homeschool conference that Charlotte did require that her students write their narrations in the different essay forms(that is in the book). Hope that helps!! Wendy
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