Their age
The idea stays. The evening changes.
You pick five or eighteen. Younger chairs get more sittings, shorter ones, a picture they can mark. The older chair gets a longer step and the same bar: can you do it.
Household year
Teach them anything you can put in words.
A sitting is a printable lesson: one idea, their age, a picture they look at first, a check they must pass. The household year opens the courses already waiting — and then lets you hunt a talk, keep a shelf, and write a course of your own.
You do not have to invent a curriculum on night one. Leonardo’s notebooks, a civic year, Western civ from the Greeks to 2000 — those are already written. Bring your own when you are ready: a talk, a chapter, a story you typed.
The tool
What it actually does
Same machine as the rest of Lumen. You are not buying a different product. You are pointing it at a different pile of words.
The still
They look before they read.
Every sitting opens on a grey picture that is a question, not a poster. Then a short body, a check they must pass, mixed practice, and a pack you can print.
The return
It comes back. That is the point.
One day, three, seven, twenty-one. Not a streak. The paper is what they bring to a kitchen, a backpack, or a week with no wifi.
Source material
What you can feed it
If you may copy and adapt the words, Lumen can make a sitting. Public domain, Creative Commons Attribution, CC0, or something you wrote. ShareAlike, no-derivatives, and “for non-commercial use only” will not do — a lesson is a derivative.
A talk
A lecture marked for adaptation. Blacksmithing, birds, a historian who released the words. Paste the transcript. Set the age.
A chapter
A public-domain book, a CC BY textbook, a page you already have the right to use. One chapter becomes a sitting. A book becomes a year.
Words you hold
Your notes. A grandparent’s story typed up. A museum walk you wrote down. A recipe with a history. If you may adapt it, Lumen can teach it.
A trip
The canal, the hostel, the ceiling. Write what they saw. The sitting is the idea, not the photograph. The photograph can stay in the album.
Already written
You do not have to make your own first
These are household courses — assembled from books and talks we may adapt. A household year opens them. Pick one tonight. Bring your own later, when a talk or a chapter is sitting on the table.
Household course · 4 sittings
American Civic Year
Constitution, declaration, bill of rights. Good citizenship in visual form. OpenStax U.S. History is held (NC-SA).
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Household course · 3 sittings
Write so a stranger can follow
Style and clarity from public-domain and CC BY writing guides.
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Household course · 3 sittings
Bridge to the math
Algebra, precalculus, and statistics so a first mechanics or calculus lecture is not the first numbers they meet.
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Household course · 14 sittings
Western civ from the Greeks to 2000
A household course from Herodotus to the year 2000. Primary texts in the public domain, Robinson and Van Loon as the survey spine, one CC BY international-relations survey for expansion and after, Civil Rights and Liberties (CC BY) for the unfinished American fights, and U.S. government speeches for 1941–2000. Crowther Western Civilization, OpenStax World History / U.S. History, and Modern World History were held: they are NC-SA or SA.
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Household course · 14 sittings
Leonardo da Vinci: notebooks, not a magician
A full household course on Leonardo from his own notebooks, the Treatise, Vasari’s Life, and one short public-domain biography. Later critics (Pater) are one sitting, not the spine.
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Household course · 14 sittings
Michelangelo: the ceiling is a job
A full household course on Michelangelo Buonarroti: the ruined marble, the Sistine vault as work, the Last Judgment, the sonnets from the scaffolding. Vasari and Condivi, then his own poems.
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Household course · 14 sittings
Vatican City: a hill that became a state
The Vatican is first a hill inside Rome: graves, a circus, a basilica, a palace, then a tiny sovereign city in 1929. Public-domain books carry the ground through 1870. The last sitting uses the Lateran Treaty as public law.
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Open the door
A month, or a year
The parent pays. The child does not sign in. Hunt, a shelf, words you paste, and courses you write stay on that household.
Where this household lives
Tax is calculated from the state and ZIP. Checkout confirms it from the full address.
Month
$24.99
plus tax — choose a state
The household courses, plus hunt, a shelf, and courses you write. Cancel any month.
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$224.99
Save 25%
plus tax — choose a state
Same house, billed once. Against twelve months, that is 25% less.
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