I love Charlotte Mason, and I love Copywork and Dictation. My biggest frustration, though, is choosing copywork and dictation passages. That's just one more thing that I don't have time to do. My daughter, Lydia, loves Shakespeare's plays, so I thought some lines from his plays would make great copywork for her. I went online to look for something and found a great site called enotes.com Quotes abound, as well as literature study guides, lesson plans, discussion, and on and on. The great thing about the quotes is that they come with a recap of what's going on at that particular point in the play. Love that. You can also look up the quotes by play, the person speaking and theme.Thursday, February 17, 2011
Copywork
I love Charlotte Mason, and I love Copywork and Dictation. My biggest frustration, though, is choosing copywork and dictation passages. That's just one more thing that I don't have time to do. My daughter, Lydia, loves Shakespeare's plays, so I thought some lines from his plays would make great copywork for her. I went online to look for something and found a great site called enotes.com Quotes abound, as well as literature study guides, lesson plans, discussion, and on and on. The great thing about the quotes is that they come with a recap of what's going on at that particular point in the play. Love that. You can also look up the quotes by play, the person speaking and theme.
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Here's some good info that Victoria left as a comment on my OLD ;-) blog. Thought someone might like to read what she wrote.
ReplyDelete"Charlotte Mason believed the dictation exercises should be passages from the children’s own books so that they have already formed a connection to the text. Maybe it would be easier for you to use what has recently been read. For copywork I have been using poetry from an anthology. I plan to change it up with quotes. You can find the public domain version of Familiar Quotations searching google books, then click free google e-books. I also download Wheeler’s Graded Studies in Great Authors. It’s an old spelling book that teaches through quotes. I plan to print a few pages at a time."
Here is my response to her:
Thanks, Victoria. Fortunately for me, Lydia is always in the process of reading a Shakespeare play. She’s an amazing reader! I also use poetry from the book she’s reading through this year. Thanks for the info on Familiar Quotations and the Wheeler book.