high school narrations

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  • January 29, 2016 at 10:42 am
    smartypants
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    Do you have your high schoolers narrate their literature readings every single day? Or is it better to have them narrate 2-3 times per week instead? Or not at all at this point?

    We do not do written narrations for Government. Ds orally narrates his Government readings almost daily. He uses a regular textbook for this. I use the reviews at the end of each chapter to make a test for him. This has been good practice for college evaluations.

    He uses Apologia Physics, so that doesn’t really lend itself to narrating. He does regularly try to explain the concepts to me, which go right over my head. I don’t let on, though. He uses the book as written: readings, labs, tests.

    We are using Jensen’s Format Writing as a final composition program before he finishes up high school, so he gets lots of writing practice.

    I was just wondering at this point if it’s prudent to have him do written narrations for literature or if he would be better served using a guide and writing an essay at the end?

    What have you done that’s worked?

    Thanks,

    Robin

    January 29, 2016 at 11:04 am
    Melanie32
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    Hi Robin! I have my daughter narrate orally for literature. She prefers to do her written narrations on her history readings. She narrates orally for all literary subjects.

    January 29, 2016 at 4:12 pm
    smartypants
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    Melanie,

    Do you just let her narrate whatever she wants or do you guide the narration with leading questions?

    Does she write about her literature? My son really struggles with literary analysis essays. I know they will be a tiny part of college writing, but he’s really worried about them.

    Thanks!

    Robin

    January 30, 2016 at 6:49 am
    Melanie32
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    At this point I  am just letting her lead in this area. We are just starting high school level work. It sounds like your son might be further along in his high school journey.

    If he is worried about literary analysis essays, I would purchase something to help him in that area. I’ve heard good things about Lightning Literature and Excellence in Literature. There’s also the new program from Sharon Watson called Illuminating Literature.

     

    February 8, 2016 at 4:46 pm
    Claire
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    We evolved from orally narrating Literature and then having informal discussions (the CM “grand discussion”) to where we are now for high school which is a small essay/paper on each book – varied writing formats, analytical in nature.  There are a lot of free resources for “essay” questions on most of the classics.  Or I find their interest in a particular book lends itself to a good essay topic.

    K-8 … build the love of reading great books, learn to retell in deeper and more complex ways, start building connections/bridges, start recognizing literary tools in use, etc.

    9-12 … read more complex books, write, write, write! Journal, essays, papers, stories, anything just make writing like eating (easy and desirable), keep up the grammatical understanding/building of knowledge, etc.

    These are my methods.

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