• The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte M. Mason
• Volume 5: Formation of Character - Shaping the child's personality
• Volume 6: A Philosophy of Education - Curiosity... the pathway to creative learning
• Leadership for Saints: A Practical Guide for Christlike Service by Rodger Dean Duncan & Ed J. Pinegar
• A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century by Oliver Van DeMille
• Notebook

1. We are reading both Volume 5 and Volume 6 of The Original Homeschooling Series by Charlotte M. Mason this year.  You can choose to read one or both.  We will be reading Volume 6 every year, so if you don't get to it this year, you can always join in next year.  There are monthly reading assignments for each volume starting with Volume 5.  In July we will move on to Volume 6.  Record your favorite ideas/quotes and also jot down plans for implementation in your notebook. 

2.  Read the monthly assignment from either Leadership for Saints: A Practical Guide for Christlike Service or A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century.  We will be reading Leadership for Saints: A Practical Guide for Christlike Service in January to April and A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century from May to November.  Add any notes, thoughts and impressions from your readings to your notebook.

3. Read the selected education articles for enrichment/discussion  There are about 12
articles spaced out over the year.  See the monthly assignment schedule.  Links may change so for The Religious Educator you can go here:  http://tre.byu.edu/

4. Keep a notebook.  You can develop this notebook however you wish, make it work for you.  You might like to have sections for your different children and write down ideas from your studies that will be beneficial to each child.

• Read CM Vol 5: preface to p. 67 

• Read Leadership for Saints - Section 1

• Read the following article: The Precise Purposes of the Book of Mormon from The Religious Educator Vol. 4 No. 1 2003

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 5: p. 68 - 143

• Read Leadership for Saints - Section 2

• Read the following article:  Balancing Faith and Intellect: An Interview with President Cecil O. Samuelson from The Religious Educator Vol. 4 No. 3 2003

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 5: p. 144 - 235

• Read Leadership for Saints - Section 3

Read the following article: Gospel Scholarship and Gospel Teaching by Larry E. Dahl from The Religious Educator Vol. 1 No. 1 2000

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 5: p. 236 - 298

• Read Leadership for Saints - Section 4

• Read the following article: “Seek Ye First”: Prophetic Counsel for Establishing Priorities in Our Lives by C. Robert Line from The Religious Educator Vol. 5 No. 1 Year 2004

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 5: p. 299 - 363

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education chapters 1 - 2

• Read the following article: “ The Loving Friend of Children, the Prophet Joseph ” by J. B. Haws from The Religious Educator Vol. 3 No. 2 Year 2002

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 5: p. 364 - 428 (and appendix)

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education chapters 3 - 4

• Read the following article: On Grocery Shopping with Children: Nurturing Spiritual Self-Reliance from The Religious Educator Vol. 4 No. 2 Year 2003

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 6: p. xxv - 67

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education chapter 5

• Read the following article: Building Stronger Testimonies by Joseph Fielding McConkie from The Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 1 Year 2007

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 6: p. 68 - 127

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education chapter 6

• Read the following article:  Teachers as Torchbearers by Michael K. Parson from The Religious Educator Vol. 7 No. 1 Year 2006

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 6: p. 128 - 184

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education chapters 7 - 8

• Read the following article:  Reprove, Betimes, and Sharpness in the Vocabulary of Joseph Smith from The Religious Educator Vol. 6 No. 2 Year 2005

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 6: p. 185 - 249

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education chapters 9 - 10

• Read the following article:  “I Write the Things of My Soul”: Drawing Closer to the Savior through Writing by  Larry W. Tippetts from The Religious Educator Vol. 6 No. 1 2005

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 6: p. 250 - 299

• Read A Thomas Jefferson Education Epilogue and Appendices

• Read the following article: Do You Know Who You Really Are? by Cynthia Doxey from The Religious Educator Vol. 8 No. 2 2007

• Keep a notebook

• Read CM Vol 6: p. 300 - 348

• Read the following article:  Helping Children to Be Lifelong Learners by Don and Ann Pearson from The Religious Educator Vol. 7 No. 2 2006

• Keep a notebook