Year 7 (ages 12 to 13)
Year 7 is your child's first year in Charlotte Mason's Form III. Additional subjects for this year include algebra, more specialised science (e.g. botany) and an additional foreign language (German or Italian).
Browse our selection of open-and-go lesson plans for this age group below. More plans will be added on an ongoing basis.
Year 7 subjects:
- Bible lessons and Sunday Reading: coming soon
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English (Writing, Dictation, Composition, Grammar, Literature, Recitations, Reading):
McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader - Revised Edition Lessons 38 to end
McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book - Revised Edition: Lessons 211 to 248
The Lesson Book: Level Four, by Sherry Hayes (from Mom Delights)
Gentle Grammar: Level 3 (from Mom Delights)- Second half of book
Work through 3 Shakespeare plays each year using Shakespeare in Three Steps study guides, as per the rotation schedule. - History (British, French, General): coming soon
- Citizenship: coming soon
- Geography: coming soon
- Science (Natural History, Botany, General Science): See Between the Lines Science and Nature Study Lesson Plan below.
- 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