Charlotte Mason Narration ideas for Highschool

• Narrations can be done in one sitting or over several days
• Have them ask several questions, make up some comprehension questions, ask each other
• Write down what you remember in note form, or as a list
• Essay questions
• Drawing, an illustration, a sketch
• Write a letter from one character to another
• Write a one act play
• Write a letter from author to publisher about the book he/she has just written
• Write the first chapter of a potential novel, in a particular setting (eg landing in Sydney Cove)
• Write a diary of a person (chronological)
• Write a poem (eg sonnet)
• Write in the style of someone
• Condense a story, passage
• Condense, classify, generalize, infer, judge, visualize, discriminate
• Lapbooks
• 5 paragraph essay
• Practice editing, rewriting, paraphrasing, changing tenses, descriptive writing, poetry, lab reports, term papers, research papers
• Compare and contrast religion/warfare of the Greeks and Romans
• Write in the style of a newspaper reporter
• Be a participant in an event describing the event to a grandchild
• Rewrite something in a different style
• Timed essays
• Detailed maps
• Socratic questioning