Would Genesis-Deut and Ancient Egypt help me?

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  • October 19, 2013 at 7:18 am
    albanyaloe
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    Due to lack of finances I tried to piece together my own ancient history curriculum.  We live in South Africa, and the $/Rand exchange is about 10:1.  I have a 12 yo, a 9 yo and a 7 yo.  I purchased quite a few of the more popular resources used for studying ancient history, such as Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egypt and her Neighbours, a book about the pyramids, the Usborne Ancient History Encyclopedia and the Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Egypt, but I am finding I just can’t get it together. We have gone through the Bible till Joseph, using the Greeleaf OT guide and trying to mesh the ancient history in according to ruth Beechick’s World History book.  I ditched her Adam and his Kin near the beginning as I felt my son didn’t have the discernment to distinguish authors opinion, and I just didn’t have time dissect it.  I just feel like I am all over the place, I don’t know where we’re heading and just try wing it each day and I am exhausted. (severe anemia complicates things) We do the Bible every day.  I am not even sure if we covered enough of Mesopotamia and Ancient Babylon.

    I’m thinking of getting this SCM guide, I had my eye on it before, but I cannot afford to purchase the Visits to Africa, Letters to Egypt and the The Stuff They Left Behind.  I can get the Nancy Ganz books in e-book format on CBD- very reasonably priced.  I just wonder if it would work without those other books.  We have read Boy of the Pyramids as a family, and The Cat of Bubustees and Hittite Warrior (not Egyptian) with my 12yo. 

    My aim has always been to thread Bible, History and Geography together as much as possible.  I even try to cover some of our LA by using the topics we cover as writing/narration ideas and of course Bible copywork. I realise that I would have to add the other ancient civilisations like the Phoenicians and such sometime, as I don’t think SCM covers that.  Do you think the SCM guide would be of any help or just confuse me even more?

    Many thanks,

    Lindy

    Sunshine Coast

    October 19, 2013 at 7:54 pm
    sheraz
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    For Ancient Egypt:

    I think that it could be a great asset to you as it schedules out all the books that you already bought – at least the Pharoahs of Ancient Egypt and Ancient Egypt and her Neighbours. It will walk you through these books in an easy to do manner. You can add the other books as topics are introduced in the two books mentioned above.

    For Geography:

    You can always use your computer to do map drills and geography. Lots of people do their own thing and do not use the Letters to Africa or the Visits to…series. If I were to do this guide w/o those, I would simply use the scheduled geography days and look up the different countries of Africa and read about them. Then I would do map drill. As for The Stuff They Left Behind, you can always google an image or two of what is being discussed. It won’t be as nice, but you will be able to utilize your money more effectively.

    For Bible:

    You can continue to do what you are doing, or you can use the guide to help pace yourself and not be so stressed and exhausted. Sonya does a good job of pacing through the Bible stories in these series.

    As for the other civilizations, you can use the Usborne book to explain that there were other people on the earth that were also doing many things during this time. Show them a few pages in the Usborne book, note it on your timeline or Book of Centuries, and move on. There is no way that you can study everything during that time period and your children will learn about those cultures as they continue to learn and study as they get older. Trust me, the stress of trying to “not miss anything” is not worth your health or, in time, perhaps your children’s attitudes. 😉

    Something else that will make things easier for you is to choose one guide or book to use and then just sort of make notes in it IF you want to add a thing or two. Remember that your children will study this more than once and that they need time to be able to make their own connections to the material, so don’t try to cram everything you have in them right now. They will let you know if it is enough or if they want more.

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