Welcome to ​Old Fashioned Education's FREE online K-12 curriculum.
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Directions:

1. Gather the Booklist below for what to teach.
2. Print the 36-Week Schedule PDF for when to teach it.
3. Order the Christian Study 2 Teaching Guide (optional) with lesson plans, worksheets, tests, answer key for how to teach it or plan your own lessons with the Student Weekly Assignment PDF.

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Christian Study 2: Middle Age Booklist

Family Together (Bible, History, Geography)

Bible Lessons

• ​​King James Bible* ❶ (1 per student, $1.25 at Dollar Tree) 
• ​​​​The Golden Children's Bible ​​❶ or Mother Stories from the New Testament*, the birth of Christ to the ascension 
• The Bible for School and Home by Dr. Paterson Smyth* [1] 

History

• The Discovery of New Worlds * 
• ​American History Stories Volume I *

Geography

• ​Home Geography * 
• Elementary Geography * ❷
• Highroads in Geography (grades 1-6) *

Character Development

• Wisdom and the Millers: Proverbs for Children ($7, first half)

Your choice of timeline (1 per student)

• ​Book of Centuries* ($0) ❶
• Composition Notebook ($1)
• History through the Ages Timeline Printable ($109)

Grades 1 to 6 (Biography)

• In the Days of Alfred the Great * 
• In the Days of William the Conqueror *
• Heroes of the Middle Ages * 
• When Knights Were Bold *
• The True Story of Christopher Columbus for Youngest Readers *
• Stories from the Crusades*
• Final Paper Doll Project: Medieval Man, Medieval Lady, or Medieval Knight * [9]

Optional Extra Reading:

• A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes *
• Famous Men of the Middle Ages * (for Grades 4+)
• Marco Polo, His Travels and Adventures * (for Grades 4+)
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Grades 7 to 12 (Bible & Biography)

Hillsdale College Course

• Introduction to Western Philosophy *

Bible Study

• King James Bible *
• The Bible Book by Book * (New Testament)
• The Bible Period by Period * (Chapters 18-21)
• A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ * 
• The Imitation of Christ *

​Biography

• The Wars of the Jews by Josephus* (Book 1)
• The Early Church by Henry Chadwick*
• Famous Men of the Middle Ages *
• King Alfred of England *
• William the Conqueror *
• Richard I *
• Richard II *
• Margaret of Anjou *
• Richard III *
• Mary Queen of Scots *
• The Magna Carta* or The Magna Carta and It's American Legacy*
• ​A+ Research & Writing * (Research William Tyndale and write a Term Paper about him).

Optional Extra Reading:

• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court *
• The Prince and the Pauper *
• Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc; Volume 1 & Volume 2 *
• The Age of Chivalry *
• Ivanhoe *
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame *
• Le Mort d’Arthur: Volume 1 & Volume 2 *

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[1] A book recommended by Charlotte Mason. "Teacher to prepare beforehand and to use Bible passages in teaching, and to add such comments from Paterson Smyth as will bring the passage home to the children." - CM