S8E103: Composition the Charlotte Mason Way with Karen Glass

Today on The New Mason Jar podcast, Dawn moderates a discussion between host Cindy Rollins and guest Karen Glass, veteran homeschool mom and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory

Karen and Cindy talk about narration and composition in the Charlotte Mason paradigm, beginning with a little background on Karen’s new book, The Art of Composition

Why Cindy has always said that parents don’t need a writing program and Karen’s response

Cindy’s concern for parents to remember to focus on ideas in narration over the form of composition

Karen’s thoughts on the building blocks of narration as the foundation of writing and composition

How Karen came to see that she had developed a sort of philosophy of writing as a conversation

Cindy talks about distinguishing between narration and summaries of a text

Karen shares some encouragement for moms with struggling narrators