Product Description
Study the Bible, geography, and history together as a family!
The sixth in our award-winning Charlotte Mason history curriculum, these lesson plans guide your family through people and events from Modern Times (about 1850–2012), covering both American History and World History. The geography of Asia is incorporated, and Family Bible lessons focus on truths from New Testament epistles (1 & 2 Peter; 1, 2, & 3 John; Jude) as well as the book of Revelation. Additional assignments are provided for older students to dig deeper into those same Bible passages.
The Charlotte Mason-style lesson plans
- Engage your students’ hearts and minds through wonderful living books.
- Help your students listen attentively and recall what was read by narrating.
- Let you teach the whole family together by sharing some books as family read-alouds, then challenging older students with additional reading and writing assignments from other books on the same topic.
- Connect geography to the people who lived there—both past and present.
- Help all your students, grades 1–12, feel at home in Scripture and challenged to keep growing spiritually through short, practical Bible lessons for the whole family and additional corresponding Bible studies for the older students.
- Keep things simple by providing helpful reminders of upcoming resources, teaching tips, and Book of Centuries entries.
Book List
Click on the Book List tab to see a full list of the resources needed for these lesson plans.
High School Credit
For the completion of grades 7–9 or 10–12 assignments in this Modern Times & Epistles, Revelation study, we suggest that students should be awarded 1/2 credit for World History/Geography, 1/2 credit for American History/Geography, and 1⁄3 credit for Bible. (The other half of the American History credit can be found in the Early Modern study.)
Sample Schedule
The lesson plans in Modern Times & Epistles, Revelation are very doable. Your weekly schedule would look something like this, with older students also spending time on additional assignments:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
|---|
American History
(20–30 min.) | American History
(20–30 min.) | Geography
(10–15 min.)
Bible
(15–20 min.) | World History
(20–30 min.) | World History
(20–30 min.) |
2nd Edition
This 2nd edition of Modern Times & Epistles, Revelation, published in 2017, has been updated to schedule The Stuff They Left Behind: From the Days of Modern Times portfolio and the Visits to Asia geography notebook. Out-of-print or hard-to-find books have been replaced, and high school credit suggestions have been added. Bible lessons for the whole family are now included in the guide itself, with additional assignments scheduled for older students to dig deeper into the same Bible passages with the Bible study book, Strong in the Word.
Our History, Geography, and Bible Series
With our six-book series, you will cover the entire Bible, learn history from ancient to modern, and study all the main regions of the world!
Keep It Simple
Combine these History Studies with our Individual Studies and family-combined Enrichment Studies for a complete Charlotte Mason curriculum plan!
Book List for History, Geography, Bible
Read the books listed under Family to all the students together. Add the grade-level books as individual reads for any children you have in those grades. For example, if you have students in grades 9 and 11, you will want to get the books under Family, Grades 7–9, and Grades 10–12.
SCM Available from SCM
Book Store Purchase from your favorite book store
Library Check your library
Public Domain Available free in the public domain
(AH) = American History book, so if you are in a different country you can easily identify and substitute books as desired.
Family
Plus . . .
Grades 1–3
Grades 4–6
Grades 7–9
Grades 10–12
- (AH) Book StoreAmerica: The Last Best Hope, Volume 1: From the Age of Discovery to a World at War by William Bennett
- (AH) Book StoreAmerica: The Last Best Hope, Volume 2: From a World at War to the Triumph of Freedom by William Bennett
- (AH; optional) Book StoreAmerica: The Last Best Hope, Volume 3: From the Collapse of Communism to the Rise of Radical Islam by William Bennett
- (AH) Book StoreAmerican Voices: A Collection of Documents, Speeches, Essays, Hymns, Poems, and Short Stories from American History edited by Ray Notgrass
- SCMBook of Centuries (one for each student)
- SCMDiscovering Doctrine by Sonya Shafer (one for each student)
- SCMHitler by Albert Marrin
- Book StoreHow Should We Then Live? by Francis Schaeffer OR Book Store7 Men Who Rule the World from the Grave by Dave Breese
- Book StoreRescue and Redeem: Volume 5, Chronicles of the Modern Church by Mindy and Brandon Withrow
- SCMStalin by Albert Marrin
- SCMStrong in the Word by Sonya Shafer
- LibraryThe War to End All Wars: World War I by Russell Freedman
- (AH) LibraryThe Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman
- Book StoreThe Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh (optional, used with Visits to Asia)
Note: We recommend that grades 10–12 students add an American Government course either during this Modern Times study or spread over two years, during Early Modern and Modern Times studies. One possibility might be Exploring Government from Notgrass Publishing, taken at a slower pace.
We also recommend that grades 9–12 students read about and discuss current events. Selected articles from World magazine or website work well.
Bonus Titles
Here are more great titles that you can use for substitutions or leisure reading or to create your own heritage history stream as desired. We will add to this list as we discover and review more new-to-us books.
Grades 1–3
Grades 1–4
Grades 1–6
Grades 1–12
Grades 3–6
Grades 4–6
Grades 4–8
Grades 4–9
Grades 4–12
Grades 5–8
Grades 5–9
Grades 6–9
Grades 7–9
Grades 6–12
Grades 7–12
Grades 9–12
Grades 10–12
Check out these ideas that correspond to Modern Times, Epistles & Revelation. Use them to supplement your study of 1850 through the present day.
