• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CMER

  • CMER
  • Home
  • CMER 2023
  • Past Retreats
    • CMER 2016
      • 2016 Speakers
      • 2016 Workshops
      • 2016 Schedule
      • 2016 Location
    • CMER 2017
      • 2017 Speakers
      • 2017 Sessions
      • 2017 Schedule
      • 2017 Location
    • CMER 2018
      • 2018 Speakers
      • 2018 Sessions
        • 2018 Plenaries
        • 2018 Break Outs
      • 2018 Schedule
      • 2018 Location
    • CMER 2019
      • 2019 Speakers
      • 2019 Sessions
        • 2019 Plenaries
        • 2019 Break Outs
      • 2019 Schedule
      • 2019 Location
    • CMER 2020
      • 2020 Speakers
      • 2020 Sessions
        • 2020 Plenaries
        • 2020 Break Outs
      • 2020 Schedule
      • 2020 Location
    • CMER 2022
      • 2022 Speakers
      • 2022 Sessions
        • 2022 Plenaries
        • 2022 Break Outs
      • 2022 Schedule
      • 2022 Location
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • About
  • Team Sites
    • Here to Glory (Dawn)
    • A Sacred Education (Jennifer)
    • a humble place (Rebecca)

Karen Canon

February 3, 2022 by Karen Canon Leave a Comment

CMER 2022: King Lear: A Shakespeare Evening

Edwin Austin Abbey (1897)
But Cordeill said she lov'd him, as behoov'd:
    Whose simple answer, wanting colors fair
      To paint it forth, him to displeasance moov'd,
      That in his crown he counted her no heir,
But twixt the other twaine his kingdom whole did share.

Spenser’s The Fairie Queene Book II, Canto X

The Shakespeare evening would come to be looked on as a family festa.

Mason, Vol. 5, p.226

This year at the retreat, we will be offering a Shakespeare evening.  After a full day of workshops and sessions, we invite you to join us for a very relaxed and informal reading with the Bard. No preparation needed; scripts and a few props for fun will be provided. Spouses who join us on Saturday for the late afternoon/evening sessions are most welcome.

If you are not familiar with the storyline, read Nesbit’s brief story version here. And, if you would like to read a Parents’ Review article about King Lear, click here.

Karen Canon - Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat
Karen Canon

You may learn more about Karen on the CMER speaker page.

cme-kc.com/

December 13, 2021 by Karen Canon Leave a Comment

CMER 2022: A Man’s A Man For A’ That

The Penny Wedding (1818) by Sir David Wilkie.  Public Domain

Folksong for 2022 CMER

The Industrial Revolution impacted small communities such as the ones that author Thomas Hardy reimagined in his novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. It disrupted the local narrative that united the “eccentric individualities” that inhabit any locale. Communities were increasingly composed of those who had less and less in common. Less common history; less common legend and folk-lore. Less community.

Sharing something in common—beliefs, practices, history, a way of living, for example—shape us into a community.  We’ve all experienced how “bent leather” (Ourselves, p.75) can suddenly familiarize the unfamiliar and welcome the alien. It is an act of imagination and hospitality; an act of hope.

In February, we will kick-off our time together at CMER 2022 with a rousing celebration of the ordinary man—Robbie Burns’ folksong A Man’s A Man For A’ That.

Karen Canon - Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat
Karen Canon

You may learn more about Karen on the CMER speaker page.

cme-kc.com/

December 5, 2019 by Karen Canon Leave a Comment

Plutarch, with Glee

Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat

What do you do when a book is hard? Plutarch’s Lives is hard. The temptation of the parent is to ask questions, to prompt, to remind. To basically do the mind work so that they ‘get it.’ This little nugget below is in my commonplace book and, at least once a year, I find myself returning to it.

T.H. White wrote his version of the Arthurian legend in the years before and after World War II. The young Arthur, known as Wart, receives his education at the hands of a wizard, Merlyn.

The Wart did not know what Merlyn was talking about, but he liked him to talk. He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to him, but the ones who went on talking in their usual way, leaving him to leap along in their wake, jumping at meanings, guessings, clutching at known words, and chuckling at complicated jokes as they suddenly dawned. He had the glee of the porpoise then, pouring and leaping through strange seas. The Once and Future King, chapter V

[Read more…] about Plutarch, with Glee

Karen Canon - Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat
Karen Canon

You may learn more about Karen on the CMER speaker page.

cme-kc.com/

November 21, 2019 by Karen Canon 1 Comment

Folksongs are like Teapots

Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat
By Frederic Remington Public Domain

On a shelf in my kitchen is a collection of teapots. I have been a modest collector for twenty years. There is no purpose to the collection; I choose what pleases me. Many are gifts and each of these special ones has a note tucked inside that tells who gave them to me and on what occasion.

One of these dear teapots belonged to my Great-Great-Great-Great Grandmother. My mother was given it the year that I was born. When I hold it in my hands, I imagine their hands as they held it and poured a cup of tea for their families in places far, far from me. As I do the same, they draw near to me.

Folksongs are like heirlooms or keepsakes…or teapots. They are treasures that are passed down, sometimes a little worse for the wear. When you sing them, you draw near to those who walked before you and through life experiences that you can only wonder at. [Read more…] about Folksongs are like Teapots

Karen Canon - Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat
Karen Canon

You may learn more about Karen on the CMER speaker page.

cme-kc.com/
  • Go to page 1
  • Go to page 2
  • Go to Next Page »

Primary Sidebar

Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat

At the CME Retreat Blog, we hope to share with you more information about a Charlotte Mason Education, the retreat, the speakers, the workshops and so much more!

Subscribe

Enter your email address below to have new blog posts delivered to your inbox!

Join us on Facebook

  • Facebook

Categories

  • Art
  • Clay Modeling
  • CMER News
  • Composer
  • Composition
  • Exams
  • Favorite Homeschool Resources
  • Folksong
  • Foreign Language
  • Geography
  • Hymn
  • Miscellaneous
  • Narration
  • Planning for the New School Year
  • Plutarch
  • Scheduling
  • Shakespeare

Search

Authors

  • CMER Team
  • Dawn Rhymer
  • Karen Canon

Archives

  • June 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • March 2019
  • December 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018

Copyright © 2018-2022 · Charlotte Mason Educational Retreat