Upper-Level Charlotte Mason Language Arts · Grades 9–12
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.
Year One · Tragedy & Gothic
Where to Begin
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.
Explore the philosophyMacbeth and Wuthering Heights — two giants of Tragedy & Gothic. Fifteen weeks of student handouts, teacher guides, DELIGHT framework analysis, and a thesis-writing workshop.
See Year One unitsCo-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.
Compare versionsLiterature 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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Meet Your Guide
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 outside Boerne, 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?
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