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The Tanglewood School Curriculum provides a
classical education achieved through the teaching methods of 19th century educator
Charlotte Mason. This curriculum was originally written by an
award-winning teacher-turned-homeschool mom for her own children and has been
tested on friend's children ranging from 1st grade to 8th grade.
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below are the goals for the Tanglewood curriculum. If you want to read more about
the philosophy and method behind the Tanglewood curriculum, you may want to check out the
other pages on our website!
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Like most classical schools, The Tanglewood
School Curriculum: |
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1. follows the timeline of history - beginning with
the ancients and chronologically progressing to modern
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2. utilizes the best literature available |
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3. establishes high academic standards |
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4. requires students to build an extensive reservoir
of facts during the grammar stage |
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Unlike most classical schools, The Tanglewood
School Curriculum: |
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1. utilizes self-discovery of facts in addition to
rote memorization |
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2. emphasizes the importance of free play and
outdoor play in the development of imagination |
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3. answers the "why" and "how" of subjects in all
stages of the trivium, acknowledging that even at a young
age certain seeds of understanding will be planted |
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Following Charlotte Mason's method,
Tanglewood: |
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1 utilizes
the best literature and poetry available |
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2. follows the
timeline of history - beginning with the ancients and
chronologically progressing to modern times, recording events and
personages in a Book of the Centuries |
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3. provides
encouragement and resources for incorporating free play
and outdoor play into the days lessons. |
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4. provides materials
that help children build relationships with their areas of
study |
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5. provides guidelines
and reminders for narrations |
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6. provides guidelines
and ideas for nature study and nature journaling, (a nature
notebook is included) |
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7. helps keep parents
accountable by providing areas to record the habits being
worked on |
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8. keeps lessons short
and sweet |
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In addition to
Charlotte Mason's method, Tanglewood: |
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1. utilizes the phonetic
approach to learning to read |
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2. uses some workbooks
and traditional methods of teaching to familiarize the
student with the types of questions he may encounter in
standardized testing |
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3. teaches spelling with
the aid of age appropriate and phonetic rule oriented word
lists in addition to the more natural Charlotte Mason
method |
