Year 8 (ages 13 to 14)
Year 8 is your child's second and final year in Charlotte Mason's Form III.
Browse our selection of open-and-go lesson plans for this age group below. More plans will be added on an ongoing basis.
Year 8 subjects:
- Bible lessons and Sunday Reading: coming soon
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English (Writing, Dictation, Composition, Grammar, Literature, Recitations, Reading):
McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader - Revised Edition Lessons 1 to 45
McGuffey's Online Tutor resources: Youtube video lessons
The Lesson Book: Level Four, by Sherry Hayes (from Mom Delights)
Gentle Grammar: Level 4 (from Mom Delights)- First half of book
Work through 3 Shakespeare plays each year using Shakespeare in Three Steps study guides, as per the rotation schedule here. - History (British, French, General): coming soon
- Citizenship: coming soon
- Geography: coming soon
- Science (Natural History, Botany, General Science): coming soon
- Picture Study: Choose a Between the Lines Picture Study Lesson Plan below.
- Mathematics (Arithmetic, Geometry, Algebra): coming soon
- Foreign Languages (Latin, French, German or Italian): We recommend using the foreign language resources listed at Mason's Living Languages.
- Painting and drawing: Do paintings and pencil drawings of plants and animals as per Nature Study lesson plans, studies of figures and scenes from Literature.
- Music (Instrument, Musical appreciation, Singing): Choose a Between the Lines Musical Appreciation Lesson Plan below.
- Drill: Choose exercises from the following: the Syllabus of Physical Training, issued by the Board of Education in 1919, and Peasant Dances of Many Lands, by Mrs Kimmins. Children are also encouraged to regularly skip and play sports such as netball, hockey, tennis, swimming and so on.
- Handicrafts: coming soon
