High school narrations

So far, I plan to have my ds (going to be in 9th) do daily written narrations.  I’m not quite sure how I’m going to plan that out.  Some curriculum will have it built in, some won’t.  Right now, I have him choose between history and lit., or I just choose for him (he doesn’t usually have a preference) but it’s only about 3 x’s a week, plus oral narrations.  I would like to have a better plan for next year, though.  I’d like to use composition books and have one for lit/history, etc., and it can be a something he can look through and over time “see” how much better his writings are becoming from one book, then move on to the next.

I don’t know, I’m just thinking outloud right now.  I have been reading some from CMH, but haven’t implemented anything yet.   

Just so you know, Lindafay at Charlotte Mason Help, requires one a day from literature, I think.  I get a little confused on some of the explanations, but I think that is correct.  I seem to remember her saying something about history, as well, but can’t remember if it was daily for history. 

I think it all depends on the student and your personal goals.  I know my ds could do a written narration everyday from lit/history, but then if I have him do a writing program or lit program, I guess that would have to count for the day.  Not sure on that.  I’m thinking of adding in Lightning Lit for literature so I’m assuming there will be writing in that program.  Then I plan to use a writing program (right now he’s using Write w/ the Best, slow, but sure) or a writing reference program (maybe Writer’s Inc, already own it). I don’t know if it has writing prompts or if it is simply for reference, have to check.  Either way, I’d still like him to give written narrations for history (I need the samples) but not sure if I will after each reading or at the end of a chapter. Probably the latter.  But, it probably wouldn’t be on the same day as the other programs, but still not sure. 

I have a bit of time to work it out but am trying to get my ideas on paper now and go back over notes I’ve made to make some decisions on curriculum and the “when to’s”. 

@marmiemama, I love the idea of comp. books (we have a ton of them) but not sure if my dc will take to them.  You can’t really add anything to them but they do keep the paper in nice and tight (you can glue pages into them if you had to, like coloring pages, etc.).  Plus, from what I’ve read, they can cause the writer to use his best penmanship since it’s not as easy to remove the pages. Basically, it’s there forever.