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Upper-Level Charlotte Mason Language Arts · Grades 9–12

Words That Linger,
Ideas That Form.

Literature companions, writing curricula, and enrichment guides rooted in the living-books tradition — for the student who is ready to read deeply and write with real conviction.

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A field guide to living books

A Field Guide to Living Books

Specimens Gathered So Far

Macbeth Shakespeare I · i Wuthering Heights Brontë I · ii The Old Man & the Sea Hemingway II · Fall A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare II · Spring Of Mice and Men Steinbeck Summer

Some books are read; a few are kept.

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Field Note

Some books are read; a few are kept.

Where to Begin

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Understand the "why" behind Delight & Savor: narration as backbone, living books over textbooks, and the Great Conversation that ties literature to the formation of the whole student.

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Browse Year One

Macbeth and Wuthering Heights — two giants of Tragedy & Gothic. Fifteen weeks of student handouts, teacher guides, Find It · Follow It · Frame It analysis, and a thesis-writing workshop.

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Co-op or home study? Honors track or standard? Each unit comes in versions designed for both settings, with an optional Honors Track for students ready to go deeper.

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From Reading to Writing

The Writing Table

Every great essay begins not with an argument, but with attention.

Reading Narration Reflection Written Analysis

At the Writing Table, students move gently from reading to narration, from narration to reflection, and finally into written analysis — learning to notice what lingers, to trust their own thinking, and to say something true about what they've read.

Along the way, students practice the three movements that turn reading into writing —

Find It

Notice what stands out — a recurring image, a strange word, a moment that lingers.

Follow It

Trace it through the text. Watch it grow, shift, return, complicate.

Frame It

Articulate what it means — and how it connects: to ourselves, to the world, to other writers and thinkers, to the other subjects we study.

But the real work runs deeper than the page. To read a book well is to be changed by it: to see ourselves, and others, and the world we live in with new understanding.

There is no trick to any of it. It is organic, it is honest — and year after year, it simply works.

From the commonplace book

Literature and language arts are the table at which a student learns to think — not just about what a text says, but about what it means to be human.

On the Delight & Savor Approach

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Letters from Delight & Savor

Charlotte Mason–inspired reflections on learning, parenting, and beauty in the everyday — sent quietly, read slowly.

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Kim Prieto holding a silkie chicken at the ranch

the collector · in the Hill Country of Texas

Meet Your Guide

Kim Prieto

I spent nine years in the public school classroom teaching AP Language & Composition and AP British Literature before bringing my family home to a 15-acre ranch in the Hill Country of Texas. I hold a master's in Literary Studies — but more than that, I'm a reader, a teacher, and a mother who believes great literature is meant to be encountered, not dissected from a safe distance.

Delight & Savor grew out of the gap I saw between rigorous academics and the Charlotte Mason ideal of the living, breathing classroom. Every unit I write asks the same question Charlotte Mason asked: What does this child deserve to think about?

A note from the desk

Every unit here began as something noticed in the margin of my own reading — a question I couldn’t put down. I keep the best of them, and pass them on.

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