Age of Enlightenment

$47.00

Discover the Age of Enlightenment with this Charlotte Mason-inspired morning time curriculum. In this 6-week study, your family will explore great thinkers, new ideas, and the discoveries that helped shape the modern world. Designed for a gentle, rich homeschool experience, it invites meaningful conversation and a deeper love of learning.

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Step into an age of reason, curiosity, and discovery with this Age of Enlightenment morning time curriculum, thoughtfully designed in the spirit of Charlotte Mason’s philosophy of truth, beauty, and goodness. This 6-week study gently guides your family through a remarkable period in history, where new ideas about science, government, education, and human rights began to shape the modern world. Through engaging lessons and meaningful discussions, students explore the thinkers, discoveries, and cultural shifts that defined the Enlightenment in a way that feels both rich and approachable.

 

Perfect for families seeking a Charlotte Mason Enlightenment study, homeschool history curriculum, or morning time plans that combine depth with a gentle and peaceful rhythm, this resource helps you cultivate meaningful learning moments and lasting conversations in your homeschool.

 

The following are included in your 6-week morning time session:

    • 6-week Calendar with each subject scheduled on it
    • Prayer and scripture memorization
    • Copywork selections from Great God, with Wonder and with Praise, James 1:2-8, Found, Wanderer’s Night Song, May Song, and  Autumn Feelings in primary, elementary, cursive, and a notebook sheet for high school students (and moms)
    • Memory Work: Prayer, scripture memory, and poetry memorization
    • Living Books recommended reading list
    • Artist & Picture Study: Jacques-Louis David 
    • Music Study: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
    • Poet & Poetry Study: Johann Wolfgang Goethe, with the poems, Rosebud in the Heather, Found, Wanderer’s Night Song, May Song, Autumn Feelings, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
    • Hymn Study: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing with sheet music and listening links
    • Folk Song Study: The Oak and The Ash, with sheet music and listening links
    • Industrial Age Recipes: American Independence Day Cake, Orsaderolletjes (Dutch Almond Cookies), English Mini Lemon Cheesecakes, French Meringues, Mandel-Kränzlein (German Almond Wreaths), and Scottish Bannocks
    • Tea Time Readings: Excerpt from Common Sense, by Thomas Paine, Excerpt from The Life and Perambulations of a Mouse, by Dorothy Kilner, Pride and Prejudice, Ch. VIII, by Jane Austen, La Fontaine’s Fables, “The Lion and the Gnat,” by Jean de La Fontaine, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, “Little Red Cap,” by the Brothers Grimm, The Renowned History of Goody Two-Shoes, Ch. 1-4, by Anonymous
    • Handicraft: Paper Quilling 
    • Art Lesson: Peaches, Pears and Plums Still Life
    • Nature Study: Comte de Buffon-Inspired Nature Study
    • Plutarch: The Children’s Plutarch: Stories of the Greeks, Tully
    • And more!

Upon purchase, you will receive LIFETIME ACCESS to this session. PLEASE NOTE: The downloadable delivery and forever access of this product makes it non-refundable. Individual morning time sessions are for personal family use only and cannot be shared among families or a co-op; sharing among families or co-ops is not allowed. Thank you for adhering to our policy.