SOTW 1...a few questions

[eksargent]

We are beginning SOTW 1. I would like to incorporate Bible history. Anyone have suggestions as to what would go along with SOTW?

 

I'm a little nervous after reading some posts about SOTW. Specifically, the order. Many of you say you have rearranged the order to better follow along. I am using SOTW 1 for both my 7 and 9 year old (1st year homeschooling). Is it confusing? If I supplement with other history/bible material - will it along well with it?

 

What works for you?

 

Thanks,

Emily

[Rhonda in WA]

When we did SOTW1 I used Egermeier's Story Bible and I followed the lay out on Paula's archive.

there are lots of helpful things there.

Here is the SOTW page

 

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here is the home page

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/

[Carol in Cal.]

I did incorporate Biblical history.

 

I used the Concordia Self-Study Bible (NIV) and read relevant sections to DD, interspersing them chronologically with SOTW1. That particular Bible was especially helpful because it has introductory essays at the beginning of each book of the Bible, giving a conservative point of view of when the book was written and when the described events occurred.

 

We read the patriarchal narratives when they showed up in SOTW. We read Jonah when SOTW covered Nineveh. We read about the Exodus and the conquest of Israel when it came up in Egyptian history. We took a long excursion to read the stories of the judges, Saul and the Davidic kings as well as the Israelite kings that parallelled David's descendants. We studied some of the psalms and proverbs then as well.

 

When we read about the kings, we also read historical parts of the prophets and some of the better known prophecies. Then we did Greece and Rome in SOTW for a really, really long time. Then we switched back and read Luke and parts of John, Acts, and excerpts from Philippians, Romans, Ephesians, James, and Revelation.

 

It was SO COOL when we got to the aside in Acts about the Athenians to have DD, 7 or so, know EXACTLY what Luke were talking about, because we had already studied Athens and Sparta and the rudiments of the philosophers!

 

I didn't really lay this out--it was just a 'do the next thing' proposition. It's not that hard if you have a good resource.

[eksargent]

When we did SOTW1 I used Egermeier's Story Bible and I followed the lay out on Paula's archive.

there are lots of helpful things there.

Here is the SOTW page

 

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/SOTWmenu.htm'>http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/SOTWmenu.htm'>http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/SOTWmenu.htm'>http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/SOTWmenu.htm

 

here is the home page

http://www.redshift.com/~bonajo/

 

Thanks! :)

[gamommy]

We're using Biblioplan Ancients with SOTW this year. It is a 3 day per week schedule that adds in appropriate Bible readings to SOTW. It also has references to other texts such as UILE, KHE, and MOH. It skips around a bit but covers things thoroughly. It also adds in many literature recommendations. Well worth the $20 or so IMO and available to purchase on the 'net as an e-book.