Name: CHEC Rocky Mountain Homeschool Conference
Start: 2025-06-12T00:00:00-05:00
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July 31, 2015 at 5:03 pm
Alicia Hart
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Thanks to you both…….lots of food for thought here. I ‘ll probably end up tweaking my plans – again-LOL! That is what I love about this forum. Such rich discussion. Thanks for taking the time to give input.
August 1, 2015 at 7:13 am
Melanie32
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Isn’t it wonderful that we can talk through these things together? 🙂
Like Christie, I was just sharing how we handle this area in our homeschool. I certainly don’t think it’s the best or only way-just another perspective.
I’ve found that much of classic literature is so hard to narrate because so little really happens in some of the chapters. So much is taken up in descriptions of the surroundings in the various scenes and that can be difficult for a child to narrate.
August 2, 2015 at 6:01 pm
Alicia Hart
Participant
Yes, that is so true that so very much of classical lit is highly detailed descriptions of places or characters! That is why it is so enjoyable to read but sometimes REALLY challenging to narrate in story form. So glad to know that we aren’t the only ones!
Question for both Christie and Melanie- how many times per day, on average, does your 12/13 yr old narrate orally? I think that CM charts say they should be narrating 3-4 times per day at this stage?
August 3, 2015 at 7:01 am
Melanie32
Participant
I just looked at our schedule and it does seem that my daughter narrates 3-4 times each day even though I didn’t plan it that way. Every now and then I may have her narrate 5 times in one day (when we begin studying a new artist or composer and read their biography).
I require 2 written narrations a week. If they were short and sweet, I would require more but my daughter prefers to write more essay-type narrations and they are usually over a page long and pretty in depth. I will probably increase her to 3 written narrations a week sometime this year.