Enrichment Studies Volume 3

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Add beauty and interest to your homeschool day!

These lessons breathe life into your homeschool days with the beauty and richness of art, music, poetry, literature, and more. Give your student a well-rounded education that goes beyond the “three R’s” and cultivates a taste for what is beautiful and true.

With Enrichment Studies, Volume 3, you’ll have a complete book list and detailed daily lessons that guide you to add ten wonderful subjects to your schedule. These lessons are simple to do and take only about one hour per day, but the delight and growth they give your family will last a lifetime!

These subjects work well as breaks from the academics such as math, history, science, and language arts. Sprinkling enrichments throughout your homeschool day keeps things fresh and provides a change of pace.

In these enjoyable lessons, your family will enjoy:

• Picture Study with the beautiful artwork of Giotto, Titian, and Monet;
• the Poetry of Emily Dickinson;
• Music Study  with the compositions of Liszt, Handel, and Schumann;
• Shakespeare’s classic play The Taming of the Shrew;
• Scripture Memory and Hymn Singing;
• learning the Handicrafts of rope coiling, and the Arts of brush drawing and ink;
• wonderful Literature books the whole family will love;
• practicing speaking a Foreign Language;
• growing in Good Habits that will prepare your children for life.

High School Credit

For the completion of assignments in this Enrichment Studies, Volume 3, using the Older Group of literature books, we suggest that students should be awarded 1/4 credit for Fine Arts and 1⁄2 credit for Literature. (If you continue similar Enrichment studies through all four years of high school, the student will earn 1 full credit of Fine Arts and 2 of Literature.)

Companion Book In Series

Enrichment Studies Volume 1 
Enrichment Studies Volume 2
Enrichment Studies Volume 3

Sample Schedule

The lesson plans in Enrichment Studies, Volume 3, are very doable, taking only about 1 hour a day. Your weekly schedule would look something like this:

Book List for Enrichment Studies, Volume 3 (Second Edition)

Family Resources

• Book of Centuries (one per family and older student): Use our free printable template or purchase My Book of Centuries
• Brush Drawing: A Basic Course
• SCM – Charlotte Mason Version Craftsman Crate: The Rope Coiling Crate
• SCM – Creating a Masterpiece: Ink video(s) of choice and materials
• Enjoy the Poems of Emily Dickinson
• Journaling a Year in Nature (one per person), pencils, watercolour paints, field guides
• Laying Down the Rails
• Laying Down the Rails for Children
• (optional for grade 7 and up) Laying Down the Rails for Yourself
• Music Study with the Masters: Liszt
• Music Study with the Masters: Handel
• Music Study with the Masters: Schumann
• Picture Study Portfolio: Giotto
• Picture Study Portfolio: Titian
• Picture Study Portfolio: Monet
• Scripture Memory Verse Cards, Pack 4
• Shakespeare in Three Steps: The Taming of the Shrew with (optional) The Arkangel Shakespeare audio recording (We recommend this play for grades 6–12. If you have younger children, simply skip this study for them.)
• Singing the Great Hymns
• SCM- Speaking [Spanish] with Miss Mason and Francois (Select your preferred language.)
• Teaching Languages with Miss Mason and François, eBook (applicable for all languages)

Family Read-Aloud Books (*Select one group.)

Young Group (Grades 1–4)

• Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit
• Heidi by Johanna Spyri
• The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
• At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Middle Group (Grades 5–8)

• Laddie: A True Blue Story by Gene Stratton-Porter (Public Domain)
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
• Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne
• A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan

Older Group (Grades 9–12)

• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Great Book Discussions: A Reading Guide for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter by Linda Burklin (Simply Charlotte Mason)
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Through Gates of Splendor by Elizabeth Elliot
• Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
• Beowulf by Anonymous (A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

*Three options are given for Family Read-Aloud books: a group of books for younger students, a group for middle students, and a group for older students. Select one of the groups to read aloud to your family—the one that best reflects the age range of most of your students.

The Young Group is geared toward approximately grades 1–4, Middle Group for grades 5–8, and Older Group for grades 9–12.

If you have a wide range of student ages to accommodate, you may want to select one group of books to read aloud and assign another group to older students to read independently.