Want to see the homeschool Morning Time and memory work plans for September that I’ve just finished printing for my family? Read all the details below in the post! If you’re an email subscriber, I’ve uploaded the printable pdf to your freebies page.
I’m so thankful we continue to prioritize truth, goodness, and beauty in our memory work and Morning Time routines. I’m so thankful for the nuggets of truth we’ve hidden in our hearts and the shared memories we have created.
This month is a Shakespeare month! Woohoo! A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the very first play we studied together as a family over 8 years ago now. I figured it was time to bring it back so the younger kids can review the story and recitations as well. (Learn how we approach Shakespeare in our homeschool here.)
I also found this great link to professional actors reciting monologues from the play, so we’ll be enjoying this together as well throughout the month.
Not included on the list is our daily viewing of WORLD Watch News. Folks generally come in and make their breakfasts while we’re watching that. Click here to get a free month trial.
You’ll notice that I’ve typed up the Bible memory verses in our preferred responsive reading format. We’ll take turns being the one to read the light print, and everyone else will reply with the dark print. We’ve found this hugely helpful in keeping us focused during our Scripture memory work time! We decided to spend another month on this passage to solidify it in our memory.
You can read more here about how to choose the best homeschool memory work, or head to the Year of Memory Work for a year’s worth of free printable poems, speeches, and other beautiful pieces for recitation!
I’d love to hear what your family will be including in Morning Time this month! Let me know in the comments below.
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Homeschool Morning Time September 2022
- Prayer
- Vos
- Bible Memory
- Catechism
- Read Aloud
- Latin Per Diem/Latin Chant
- Shakespeare (Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- “And Can It Be”
- Prayer
Minimum Viable Morning Time:
- Prayer
- Bible Memory
- Memory Work
- Hymn
- Prayer
1 Peter 1:3-21
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials,
that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love.
Though now you do not see Him, yet believing, you rejoice with joy inexpressible and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith—the salvation of your souls.
Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace that would come to you, searching what, or what manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in them was indicating when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow.
To them it was revealed that, not to themselves, but to us they were ministering the things which now have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things which angels desire to look into.
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance; but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
And if you call on the Father, who without partiality judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves throughout the time of your stay here in fear;
knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.
He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
Westminster Shorter Catechism questions 13-24
Q. 13. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
A. Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the estate wherein they were created, by sinning against God.
Q. 14. What is sin?
A. Sin is any want of conformity unto, or transgression of, the law of God.
Q. 15. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
A. The sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created was their eating the forbidden fruit.
Q. 16. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
A. The covenant being made with Adam, not only for himself, but for his posterity; all mankind, descending from him by ordinary generation, sinned in him, and fell with him, in his first transgression.
Q. 17. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
A. The fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery.
Q. 18. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell?
A. The sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell consists in the guilt of Adam’s first sin, the want of original righteousness, and the corruption of his whole nature, which is commonly called original sin; together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it.
Q. 19. What is the misery of that estate whereinto man fell?
A. All mankind by their fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries in this life, to death itself, and to the pains of hell forever.
Q. 20. Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?
A. God having, out of his mere good pleasure, from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin and misery, and to bring them into an estate of salvation by a redeemer.
Q. 21. Who is the redeemer of God’s elect?
A. The only redeemer of God’s elect is the Lord Jesus Christ, who, being the eternal Son of God, became man, and so was, and continueth to be, God and man in two distinct natures, and one person, forever.
Q. 22. How did Christ, being the Son of God, become man?
A. Christ, the Son of God, became man, by taking to himself a true body and a reasonable soul, being conceived by the power of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the virgin Mary, and born of her, yet without sin.
Q. 23. What offices doth Christ execute as our redeemer?
A. Christ, as our redeemer, executeth the offices of a prophet, of a priest, and of a king, both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation.
Q. 24. How doth Christ execute the office of a prophet?
A. Christ executeth the office of a prophet, in revealing to us, by his word and Spirit, the will of God for our salvation.
Oberon (Midsummer Night’s Dream II, i)
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;
And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:
And with the juice of this I’ll streak her eyes,
And make her full of hateful fantasies.
Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove:
A sweet Athenian lady is in love
With a disdainful youth: anoint his eyes;
But do it when the next thing he espies
May be the lady: thou shalt know the man
By the Athenian garments he hath on.
Effect it with some care, that he may prove
More fond on her than she upon her love:
And look thou meet me ere the first cock crow
Bottom’s Dream (Midsummer Night’s Dream IV, i)
I have had a most rare vision.
I have had a dream—past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
Man is but an ass if he go about to expound this dream.
Methought I was—there is no man can tell what. Methought I was, and methought I had—
but man is but a patched fool if he will offer to say what methought I had.
The eye of man hath not heard,
the ear of man hath not seen,
man’s hand is not able to taste,
his tongue to conceive,
nor his heart to report what my dream was.
I will get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream.
It shall be called “Bottom’s Dream” because it hath no bottom
Puck (Midsummer Night’s Dream V, ii)
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber’d here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to ‘scape the serpent’s tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
Midsummer Night’s Dream Famous Quotes
The course of true love never did run smooth.
(Lysander, Act 1 Scene 1)
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
(Helena, Act 1 Scene 1)
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip’s ear.
(Fairy, Act 2 Scene 1)
Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania.
(Oberon, Act 2 Scene 1)
Bless thee, Bottom! Bless thee! Thou art translated.
(Quince, Act 3 Scene 1)
What angel wakes me from my flow’ry bed?
(Titania, Act 3 Scene 1)
To say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.
(Bottom, Act 3 Scene 1)
O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd.
She was a vixen when she went to school,
And though she be but little, she is fierce.
(Helena, Act 3 Scene 2)
Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.
(Puck, Act 3 Scene 2)
Jack shall have Jill,
Nought shall go ill,
The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.
(Puck, Act 3 Scene 2)
“Lord, what fools these mortals be.”
(Puck, Act 3, Scene 2)
…not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallowed house.
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.
(Puck, Act 5 Scene 1)
Lovers and madmen have such seething brains,
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend
More than cool reason ever comprehends.
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
(Theseus, Act 5, Scene 1)
And Can It Be That I Should Gain
1. And can it be that I should gain
an int’rest in the Savior’s blood?
Died he for me, who caused his pain?
For me, who him to death pursued?
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
2. ’Tis myst’ry all! Th’Immortal dies:
who can explore his strange design?
In vain the firstborn seraph tries
to sound the depths of love divine.
’Tis mercy all! Let earth adore,
let angel minds inquire no more.
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
3. He left his Father’s throne above
(so free, so infinite his grace!),
humbled himself (so great his love!),
and bled for all his chosen race.
’Tis mercy all, immense and free;
for, O my God, it found out me.
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
4. Long my imprisoned spirit lay
fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
thine eye diffused a quick’ning ray;
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
my chains fell off, my heart was free;
I rose, went forth, and followed thee.
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
5. No condemnation now I dread;
Jesus, and all in him, is mine!
Alive in him, my living Head,
and clothed in righteousness divine,
bold I approach th’eternal throne,
and claim the crown, through Christ, my own.
Amazing love! How can it be
that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?
