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3	Year 2 Ancient History green sheets. (forthcoming...)

Notes:

• Before we started going through the Year 2 Green Sheets, I gave Hannah a brief but thorough overview of all history from the Creation to the birth of Christ. I was preparing her for what we would study that year. I explained--
  
  
  • how God made Israel a nation,
  • how they were split into two kingdoms (Israel and Judah),
  • how both kingdoms were disobedient.
  • how Israel was carried away (by the Assyrians)
  • how Judah was carried away by Nebuchadnezzar
  • how they would never go back to their kings
  • how the Medes-Persians would rule them
  • how the Greeks and Romans would rule them.

  When I say "brief" I mean brief as in maybe two minutes. I did not focus on the Assyrians. Daniel focuses on four kingdoms--

  1. Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar)
  2. Medes Persians
  3. Greece
  4. Rome
  
  
• During our Orientation, Hannah memorized some key dates by the use of a card game I developed. I'd scramble the cards (they had relevant pictures on them) and she would have to put them in order as part of our Orientation festivities. Here are the dates--
  
  
  

  4000 BC	The fall of man
  2400 BC	The flood, Babel, Peleg
  2000 BC	Abraham
  1500 BC	Moses and the Exodus
  1450 BC	The Judges rule
  1000 BC	The Kings
  931 BC	The Kingdom divided
  721 BC	Israel fell
  606 BC	Judah fell
  536 BC	Rebuild the temple
  400 BC	Malachi
  AD	Christ is born

  
  
  
• I made a worksheet of this data and gave it to her periodically throughout Year 2 to help keep the dates in her mind. I used to do a lot of worksheets on a computer, but I got to the point where I'd pick up a pencil and paper and make my worksheets, whatever was convenient. Sometimes I would copy them on color paper. Eventually, I began to use three-ring binders and our own binding method to make workbooks. Hannah would not write on the worksheets at but rather write out her answers on notebook paper.
  
  
  

  Appointed Times
  from Adam to Christ

  4000 BC
  2400 BC
  2000 BC
  1500 BC
  1450 BC
  1000 BC
  931 BC
  721 BC
  606 BC
  536 BC
  400 BC
  AD

  
  
  

  We covered Exodus to I Samuel 8 in Year 2--however some of these books we had previously read and so did not cover them in class but rather reviewed them. For those unfamiliar with the Old Testament, you may want to look at Overview of the Bible Exodus-Joshua were done as a survey (select passage that together gave a complete overview of the books). From then on, we covered each chapter and verse. Our classes were not dried up and boring. I always determined that there could be no death in our school. I couldn't take it, that would be too grievous. God's word is alive and we had to dig down in it. In Exodus, as we read about the tabernacle, its furniture, curtains, and boards, and sacrifices, etc. we were drawing them and writing in the dimensions. We made a model breastplate (a span in size) with construction paper and faux jewels. I looked up the stones and tried to select the plastic stones that seemed to match them best. We made a model of the tabernacle out of a shoe box. We had "Lunch with Ruth" based on the meal she had with Boaz and the workers. Hannah sometimes copied scriptures, or took dictation, or copied summaries that I had prepared for the chapter (in preparation for writing her own summaries in Year 3). As we went along, it felt as if we were going to go on a journey through the scriptures and I actually felt like a tour guide. I would set the atmosphere with brief, meaningful, interesting introductions. We were actually learning together because my Old Testament knowledge was not that great, but I had basic understanding of the flow and substance of the Old Testament. For those unfamiliar with the Old Testament, you may want to look examine this overview. It was in Year 2 that came to understand that the green sheets were the Bible and did not put a lot of detail on them like in previous versions. Just enough information to give an overview of the chapters in Exodus, etc. We read responsively, as usual, but boardwork and seatwork could be sketching or summarizing or copying. Created the breastplate with dimensions and plastic jewels in approximate colors of the stones. Our strategy with our Ancient History program was to use the scriptures from Genesis to Revelation to give us the timeline. On this timeline we hung select other events.

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