• Today on The New Mason Jar podcast, Dawn moderates a discussion between host Cindy Rollins and guest Karen Glass, veteran homeschool mom and member of the AmblesideOnline Advisory
• Karen and Cindy talk about narration and composition in the Charlotte Mason paradigm, beginning with a little background on Karen’s new book, The Art of Composition
• Why Cindy has always said that parents don’t need a writing program and Karen’s response
• Cindy’s concern for parents to remember to focus on ideas in narration over the form of composition
• Karen’s thoughts on the building blocks of narration as the foundation of writing and composition
• How Karen came to see that she had developed a sort of philosophy of writing as a conversation
• Cindy talks about distinguishing between narration and summaries of a text
• Karen shares some encouragement for moms with struggling narrators

To see the full show notes for this episode, including quotes and book links, please visit https://thenewmasonjar.com/103/.