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Sample Lessons - Modernity
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Lesson 1: Orientation12 Steps
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1.1—Introduction & Note-taking (Video) - Sample
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1.1—Read Quotes About Wisdom
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1.2—Why Life? (Video) - Sample
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1.2—Read Tolkien Letter
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1.3—Why School? (Video) - Sample
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1.3 — Read Arthur Quiller-Couch Quote
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1.4 —Why History? (Video) - Sample
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1.4 —Read History Quotes
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1.5—Course Assignments (Video) - Sample
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1.5 – Lesson 1 Portfolio
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1.5—Lesson 1 Exam
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1.6–Project 1 (Video) - Sample
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1.1—Introduction & Note-taking (Video) - Sample
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Lesson 2: The Great Stage: Introduction to the West12 Steps
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2.1 — The Principle (Video) - Sample
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2.1 — Read Westminster Confession Chapter 1
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2.2—Christendom & Modernity (Video) - Sample
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2.2—Read the Nicene Creed
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2.3—The Thirty Years War (Video) - Sample
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2.3—Read Gustavus Adolphus Farewell Address
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2.4—John Amos Comenius (Video) - Sample
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2.4—Read The Great Didactic
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2.5—The Legacy of the West (Video) - Sample
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2.5—Lesson 2 Portfolio
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2.6—Project 1: Reformational Imitation (4 min video)
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2.5—Lesson 2 Exam
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2.1 — The Principle (Video) - Sample
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Lesson 3: Ideas Have Consequences: The Enlightenment11 Steps
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3.1—The Principle (Video) - Sample
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3.1—Read Proverbs 1-4
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3.2—Ockham & Descartes (Video) - Sample
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3.2—Read Descartes
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3.3—Spinoza, Hobbes, Locke & Hume (Video) - Sample
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3.3—Read Hume
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3.4—Kant, Diderot, & Voltaire (Video) - Sample
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3.4—Read Kant
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3.5—Rousseau (Video) - Sample
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3.5—Lesson 3 Portfolio
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3.5—Lesson 3 Exam
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3.1—The Principle (Video) - Sample
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Lesson 4: The Sacred & the Secular: Empires, Pirates, and Rulers11 Steps
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4.1 —The Principle (Video) - Sample
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4.1 —Read Rousseau Selection
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4.2 —Explorers & Empires (Video) - Sample
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4.2 —Read "The History of the Indies" Selection
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4.3 —The Muslim Threat & Catholic Missions (Video) - Sample
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4.3 —Read "Lepanto" & Francis Xavier Letter
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4.4 —The Golden Age of Piracy (Video) - Sample
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4.4 —Read Don Lewes Transcript
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4.5 —Enlightened Despots (Video) - Sample
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4.5 —Lesson 4 Portfolio
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4.5 —Lesson 4 Exam
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4.1 —The Principle (Video) - Sample
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ASSIGNMENT:
- Read the following quotations about the study of history.
- Write an essay or discuss with your instructor the following question: According to these authors, what is the value of knowing the past?
SELECTION: Quotations about the study of history.
“The student of the New Testament should primarily be a historian. The center and core of all the Bible is history.” -J. Gresham Machen
“The value of history is its certainty—against which opinion is broken.” -Lord Acton
“The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.” -Winston Churchill
“A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.” -Samuel Johnson
