History: Antiquity
-
1. Orientation12 Steps
-
1.1 – Introduction & How to Take Notes (9 min video)
-
1.1 - Read Table of Contents
-
1.2 – Why Do We Study? (14 min video)
-
1.2 - Read James Schall Quote
-
1.3 – Why Do We Study History? (8 min video)
-
1.3 - Read Psalm 78
-
1.4 – What Each Student Needs (7 min video)
-
1.4 - Read Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch Quotes
-
1.5 – Course Assignments (6 min video)
-
1.5 – Lesson 1 Exam
-
1.6 – Portfolio (4 min video)
-
1.6 – Lesson 1 Portfolio
-
1.1 – Introduction & How to Take Notes (9 min video)
-
2. Imago Dei: Creation13 Steps
-
2.1 – The Character of God (22 min video)
-
2.1 - Read the Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 2
-
2.2 – A Creation Story Like No Other (20 min video)
-
2.2 - Read Genesis 1-2:3
-
2.3 – Interpretations of Genesis (19 min video)
-
2.3 - Read Enuma Elish
-
2.4 – The Seven Days (24 min video)
-
2.4 - Read Genesis 2:4-25
-
2.5 – A Creature Like No Other (18 min video)
-
2.5 - Lesson 2 Exam
-
2.5 – Lesson 2 Portfolio
-
2.6 – Project 1: Creation Week (2 min video)
-
2.6 – Begin Creation Week
-
2.1 – The Character of God (22 min video)
-
3. The Two Cities: The Fall & Two Lineages11 Steps
-
3.1 – The Problem of Evil (21 min video)
-
3.1 - Read The Westminster Confession of Faith
-
3.2 – The Fall & the Curse (17 min video)
-
3.2 - Read Genesis 3
-
3.3 – The Two Cities (17 min video)
-
3.3 - Read Genesis 4 & 5
-
3.4 – The Flood (19 min video)
-
3.4 - Read Genesis 6-9:17
-
3.5 – Prehistoric Man (25 min video)
-
3.5 – Lesson 3 Portfolio
-
3.5 - Lesson 3 Exam
-
3.1 – The Problem of Evil (21 min video)
-
4. Look On My Works, Ye Mighty: Babel & Mesopotamia11 Steps
-
4.1 – The Reliability and Chronology of the Old Testament (22 min video)
-
4.1 – Read Select Passages from the Old Testament
-
4.2 – Babel & Sargon (26 min video)
-
4.2 - Read Genesis 10 - 11 and the Nam Shub
-
4.3 – Mesopotamian Culture (25 min video)
-
4.3 - Read Selection from The Epic of Gilgamesh
-
4.4 – Creation Myths, Sumer, and Akkad (24 min video)
-
4.4 - Read Babylonian Creation Myth
-
4.5 – Babylon and Mesopotamian Religion (14 min video)
-
4.5 – Lesson 4 Portfolio
-
4.5 - Lesson 4 Exam
-
4.1 – The Reliability and Chronology of the Old Testament (22 min video)
2.6 – Project 1: Creation Week (2 min video)
CREATION WEEK PROJECT:
For the Creation Week Project, students complete and present an artistic rendering or representation of all seven days in the creation week.
Students are to carefully read and reread the account of the creation week, taking notes about its events, order, and significance. Students must then choose a medium in which to represent or imitate the seven days of creation.
Media may vary greatly. For example, a student could choose to make seven paintings, drawings, or watercolors that individually represent each day. Or a student could write seven individual poems or a longer work that details and praises each day of creation. Additionally, a student could create a model of the seven days, illustrate a children’s book of the seven days, design and write a story based on the themes of the seven days, create a musical composition illustrating the seven days, complete a scrapbook, make a photography collage, write a speech based upon the themes of the seven days, etc.
This project should be completed by the end of the seventh lesson. Projects are graded first and foremost on the student’s accuracy in knowing and recreating the order and themes/details of each day of creation. Secondly, projects are graded on quality, craftsmanship, diligence, and ambition. These projects should be done well and be presented in permanent materials, i.e., ink instead of pencil, art paper instead of notebook/computer paper, etc. Thirdly, students are graded on their ability to present and explain their project and how it represents or imitates each day of creation specifically. Finally, students are graded on their presentation skills.