Episode 268: Recitation Tactics
A Delectable Education Charlotte Mason Podcast
Nicole Williams
5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we return to the topic of Recitation, a distinctive feature of Charlotte Mason's Method. We are focusing on practical ways to help your student develop their skills in Recitation, both the "Mechanical" and the "Sentimental" Branches.
“It will now be seen that I spoke nothing but the truth when I said that reading was an art which had its fixed laws. We have found laws for the emission of the voice, for respiration, for pronunciation, for articulation, and for punctuation ; that is to say, laws for all the material side, the technical part of the art of reading. Let us now pass on to its intellectual aspects.” (Ernest Legouvé. A Short Treatise on Reading Aloud. PR 17, p 436)
Hay said, “the first of these two branches ... can in all cases be taught, and the second beyond hints and suggestions for guidance must be left to the taste and judgment of the speaker.” (p. 33-34)
What Charlotte Mason called “the fine art of beautiful and perfect speaking.” (1/223)
“It will now be seen that I spoke nothing but the truth when I said that reading was an art which had its fixed laws. We have found laws for the emission of the voice, for respiration, for pronunciation, for articulation, and for punctuation ; that is to say, laws for all the material side, the technical part of the art of reading. Let us now pass on to its intellectual aspects.” (Ernest Legouvé. A Short Treatise on Reading Aloud. PR 17, p 436)
Hay said, “the first of these two branches ... can in all cases be taught, and the second beyond hints and suggestions for guidance must be left to the taste and judgment of the speaker.” (p. 33-34)
The Speaking Voice: Its Development and Preservation, Volume 1, Emil Behnke
The Speaking Voice: Its Development and Preservation, Volume 2, Emil Behnke
The Art of Reading and Speaking, Canon Fleming
Awaken: Living Books Conferences
Episode 179: Recitation Immersion
Episode 266: The Unity of the CM Method
Arthur Burrell's Recitation: The Children's Art
2024 ADE @ Home {Virtual Conference}
ADE's Patreon Community
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Join a delectable education in 2024 as we travel to Indiana, Michigan, and Florida for |
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| 0:55.0 | Welcome to a delightful education, |
| 0:57.0 | the podcast that spreads the feast of the Charlotte Mason Method. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Emily Kaiser and I'm here with Liz Kottrell and Nicole Williams and many years ago at |
| 1:06.4 | the very beginning of our podcast we did an episode on today's topic |
| 1:10.2 | recitation and I'm gonna link that original episode in our show notes. |
| 1:14.0 | But today we want to focus more on the practical techniques and what that looks like |
| 1:20.0 | or could look like in a lesson. |
| 1:22.8 | And what we said originally is the big picture, |
| 1:25.8 | what is recitation, what's it about, |
| 1:27.6 | you know, how often, what kinds of things do they do? |
| 1:30.1 | We're not gonna focus on any of that today. |
| 1:32.2 | But Nicole, you about four years ago now, |
| 1:35.0 | oh my goodness. |
| 1:36.0 | It's been a long time. |
| 1:37.0 | I didn't realize that. |
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