Modernity (Group License)
$120.00 – $130.00
Dave Raymond’s History series returns with Modernity, an exciting study of major developments in western civilization for your homeschool. Using a Christian worldview, students will discover why historical events of the 17th century led to important consequences in the 20th century and are still important today. The second course in a four-year study from Dave Raymond that spans Antiquity to Christendom, then America’s founding through Modernity. Recommended for high school students, ages 13+ (see below).
Description
- This license is for group use of American History. It applies to a homeschool co-op, school, or other group setting. This license is priced per child. This license requires a minimum of three students in the class.
- This license is good for one year from date of purchase. At the end of your license term, you may purchase an additional license for the next year based on the new number of students; otherwise, the set reverts to an individual or family license.
- If you ordered the DVD, you will receive one set for use by the teacher. Worksheets are in PDF format, so can be printed as many times as necessary.
In this exciting addition to his history series, Dave Raymond turns his attention to the period of Modernity and the maturity of Western civilization. Under Dave’s instruction, students will learn how to apply and refine a Christian worldview to major developments in philosophy, science, and government; personalities such as Newton, Bach, Napoleon, and Austen; and movements including the Enlightenment, Darwinism, Nationalism, and Victorianism.
Modernity is Year 2 in a series of one-year homeschool history curricula. Modernity consists of:
- 27 lessons (5 videos per lesson, 47 hours total)
- 4 projects
- 308-page Student Reader with primary & secondary sources sources (PDF, EPUB and MOBI)
- Teacher’s Guide with Scope & Sequence (PDF, EPUB and MOBI)
- Dedicated EPUB & Kindle versions of the Student Reader and Teacher’s Guide using Dyslexia-friendly fonts. View a side-by-side sample.
- Year-long Portfolio
- Weekly Exams
- Dates covered: 1600s to 2000
Credit: One High School History/Social Studies
Click on the FAQ tab for a complete breakdown of hours spent per area to qualify for high school credit.
Ages: 13+ (We recommend children be over age 13 to take this class due to mature content in dealing with war and some modern art. Please be aware of some brief artistic nudity in some of the historical artwork that is presented in the course.)
Additional information
| Age | 14+ |
|---|---|
| Format | DVD, Download, Streaming |
| Lessons | 27 (47 hours of material) |
| Teacher | Dave Raymond |
| Credit | 1 HS |
| Age/Grade |
FAQs
HSLDA recommends spending approximately 150 hours on a subject to qualify for high school credit. This is how Dave Raymond’s classes generally break down to achieve that credit. Some students will spend more time in some areas and some will spend less, but there is clearly enough different types of work to qualify for full high school credit:
* The reader includes 400 pages of original historical materials. It increases in length as the year progresses. For example, Part 1 is 150 pages and Part 2 is 250 pages. If additional reading is desired for older students, we include recommendations for that.
**If a parent desires to do two or more thesis papers for older students, that is perfectly acceptable and will only increase the amount of time spent in the class.
Sample Lessons
Lessons
Part I
- Orientation
- The Great Stage: Introduction to the West
- Ideas Have Consequences: The Enlightenment
- The Sacred and the Secular: Empires, Missions, Pirates, and Rulers
- Royal Science: The Scientific Revolution
- The Creators: Pascal, Vermeer, Johnson, Bach
- The Devil Has No Stories: The French Revolution,
- I Am the Revolution: Napoleon
- Deus Ex Machina: The Industrial Revolution
- The Antiquary and the Muses: Scott, Austen, and the Romantic Poets
- No Vision Too Large: Wilberforce and Chalmers
- Culture=State: Nationalism
- Eminent Culture: Victorianism
Part II
- The West and the Rest: Victorian Missions
- The New Priesthood: Scientism and Darwinism
- The Square Inch War: Kuyper and Wilson
- The Pity of War: World War I
- Domesticity Versus Tyranny: Versailles, Dictators, and America’s Roaring Twenties
- Modern Art and the Death of Culture: Art and Architecture
- I’ll Take My Stand: The Thirties
- The Lost Generation: Literary Converts
- The Wrath of Man: World War II
- The Cross and Perseverance: World War II, Bonhoeffer, and Churchill
- Personal Peace and Affluence: The Fifties
- The Great Divorce: The Sixties
- The West Like the Rest: The Seventies and the End of Modernity
- The Triumph of the West: The Fall of Communism and Postmodernity
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