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All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Baltic Shore St. Petersburg (Leningrad) A Neva River Baltic Sea ESTONIA LATVIA Moscow DENMARK Baltic States Gilleleje Helsingr North Sea Kolding Copenhagen LITHUANIA B HOLLAND/NETHERLANDS Gdynia BRITAIN EUROPE Witte Verden POLAND Alkmaar West Berlin Warsaw Amsterdam Amersfoort Brunswick GERMANY Oder River Calais Saxony BELGIUM Frankfurt Cambrai Prague Krakow C Crécy Mainz Elbe River Worms Rhine River Carpathian Mountains UKRAINE Paris Marne Brno Brest Normandy Seine River Vienna Hungarian Plain Tisza River Orléans Basel Oberammergau Swiss Alps Budapest Cluj Chalon Faido HUNGARY Transylvania W— Core Geneva Mendrisio Como Trieste Zagreb ROMANIA D Venice Crimea Lombardy Belgrade Danube River Caucasus Burtigala(Bordeaux) Genoa Florence Ravenna Alps Bucharest Sarajevo Rubicon River San Marino SERBIA Black Sea Pyrenees Mountains Tiber River BULGARIA Navarre Soa Stara Zagora Elba ITALY MONTENEGRO Plovdiv Rhodope Mountains Rome MACEDONIA SPAIN Aragon Adriatic Sea Tirana Map 1 E Pompeii ALBANIA Serrai Philippi Constantinople Salerno Brindisi Transcaucasia Thebe Hellespont (Dardanelles) Mount Ararat GREECE Bay of Salamis Scyros TURKEY Thermopylae Lydia Phrygia Assyria Córdoba (Cordova) Ithaca Athens SICILY Çatal Hüyük Hippo Zama Carthage Siracusa (Syracuse) Sparta Nineveh F Cadiz Pillars of Heracles Knossos Lycia Mesopotamia Strait of Gibraltar Atlas Mountains Tigris River TUNISIA Mediterranean Sea Crete SYRIA Euphrates River Map Legend Byblos Northern Kingdom Baghdad Cities ISRAEL G Rosetta Southern Kingdom CHALDEA States/Provinces Alexandria Judea Ur COUNTRIES Memphis Regions H CONTINENTS Bodies of Water Red Sea Deserts Abydos Thebes Mountain Hermonthis Mountain Range Libyan Desert I Points of Interest ©2013 by Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A Scandinavia FINLAND Ural Mountains NORWAY Oslo Tura River Tobolsk SWEDEN Tyumen Rostov B Glasgow West RUSSIA Ekaterinburg Germany East Germany Galway Haarlem Berlin IRELAND Doorn Czechoslovakia Battle of Catalaunian KAZAKHSTAN Lucerne AUSTRIA Lugano MONGOLIA Manchuria C Milan FRANCE Bologna Black Sea KYRGYZSTAN NORTH KOREA SPAIN Naples UZBEKISTAN Korea Pyongyang Kangjin PORTUGAL GREECE W— Core TURKMENISTAN TAJIKISTAN Yellow River Panmunjom Kaesong SOUTH Mazar-e-Sharif Kunduz CHINA Silk Road Seoul KOREA D IRAQ Kabul Ch’ang-an Fez Balad Jalalabad PERSIA IRAN AFGHANISTAN Kum River MOROCCO Sumer Kandahar Nanking Cairo Persepolis PAKISTAN Himalayas Arabia ALGERIA Persian Indus River Map 2 LIBYA Nile River E Gulf Karachi Gan Jiang River EGYPT INDIA Canton Kowloon Taiwan Mecca North Vietnam Hong Kong NUBIA KUSH MALI Niger River Timbuktu F Songhay Empire Aksum (Axum) VIETNAM Adulis French Indo-China GHANA Ife AFRICA ETHIOPIA Malay Peninsula G LIBERIA East Africa Singapore INDONESIA Malindi Mombasa H Kilwa Map Legend: n Byzantine Empire (393 - 1453 AD) n Empire of Alexander the Great (332 - 323 BC) I ©2013 by Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A B GREENLAND Arctic Circle Siberia ICELAND CANADA NEWFOUNDLAND Prussia Kiska C Austria-Hungary Gaul Persian Empire Gobi Desert Hokkaido UNITED STATES Beijing/Peking AMERICA JAPAN Columbus’ Journeys Taedong River Hiroshima Shanghai Nagasaki W— Core D Atlantic Ocean Yangtze River Sahara Desert Shantou CUBA HAITI BURMA Hawaii Central Wake Pearl Harbor America JAMAICA BARBADOS GUATEMALA SIAM HONDURAS PHILIPPINES Guam NICARAGUA Caracas COSTA RICA VENEZUELA Map 3 E PANAMA Pacic Ocean COLOMBIA BENIN Guiana KENYA ECUADOR East Indies Bougainville PERU PAPUA NEW GUINEA SOUTH Jakarta Guadalcanal Andes Mountains AMERICA St. Helena F BOLIVIA BRAZIL ZIMBABWE CHILE AUSTRALIA SOUTH AFRICA G ARGENTINA NEW ZEALAND Antipodes Islands Journey Legend H 1st Journey 2nd Journey 3rd Journey 4th Journey Columbus Journey’s Balboa’s Journey John Cabot’s Journey I Magellan’s Journey Vasco da Gama’s Journey Core W—Map 4A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Edinburgh SCOTLAND A Gweedore Sligo Yorkshire River Foss Lough of Strangford York Meath Leeds Liverpool Ouse River B Erin ENGLAND Leichester Stratford Bedford WALES Cambridge Runnymede London Flanders C Hastings Waterloo Cornwall LUXEMBOURG D Brittany Alsace E Core W—Map 4B Thessalonica 1 2Troy 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ©2013 by Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. All rights reserved. All Ltd. Sonlight Curriculum, ©2013 by GREECE Aegean Sea Scyros A Corinth Marathon Mycenae Naxos B Ugarit Phoenicia Acre SidonSidon Tyre Tiberias C Babylon Jericho Babylonian Empire Jerusalem Salt Sea Lower Egypt Judah D Palestine E ©2013 by Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A B Seattle C Washington Maine New Hampshire Saratoga W— Core Wyoming New York Massachusetts D West Point Plymouth Pennsylvania Rhode Island Ohio New York City Connecticut New Jersey Brooklyn Utah Maryland Washington DC Delaware Kansas Virginia Map 5 E Jamestown Yorktown California North Carolina Tennesee Roanoke Island New Mexico South Carolina F Mississippi BERMUDA Georgia Louisiana New Orleans G Florida Gulf of Mexico BAHAMAS H MEXICO Havana West Indies I Tenochtitlán/Lake Texcoco ©2013 by Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd. All rights reserved. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A B C Core W— Core D E Map 6 F Map Legend n British Empire G n Roman Empire n Holy Roman Empire n Muslim Empire n Napolean’s Empire H n Incan Empire n Aztec Empire n Mayan Empire n Mongol Empire I Instructor’s Guide Quick Start The Sonlight Instructor’s Guide (IG) is designed to make This IG includes an entire 36-week schedule, notes, assign- your educational experience as easy as possible. We have ments, readings, and other educational activities. For spe- carefully organized the materials to help you and your cific organizational tips, topics and skills addressed, the children get the most out of the subjects covered. If you timeline figure schedule, and other suggestions for the need help reading your schedule, see “How to Use the parent/teacher see Section Three. What helpful features Schedule Page” just before Week 1 begins. can you expect from the IG? Notes WEEK NOTES CORE A Timeline Instructions Day 1 Schedule Throughout the year, we will provide Timeline suggestions from your assigned reading here in your Bible Notes . We mark them with a d symbol. If we use Easy to use the d symbol, please find a figure in the Sonlight Egermeier's Bible Story Book | pp. 10–12 Timeline Figure packet. CORE A WEEK SCHEDULE Note: We read a story Bible to give our children the You should either use the timeline sold by Sonlight full flow of the Bible’s content. We read Egermeier’s Curriculum, or make a timeline for the wall of your room because it chooses the stories well, is readable, and using 8½"x 11" paper (taped sideways, end to end), one compelling. My children often pleaded with me to “keep inch for every 100 years or so. Bible on reading.” May our children grow up to understand the Word and to love it. Egermeier’s pp. 10–12See “About pp. 12–16 Biblical Dates”100 years pp.in Introductory 16–18 Tape materialpp. in18–21 Sec. One pp. 22–27 Bible Story Book d d d To Discuss After You Read Q: Why did God rest on the 7th day? A: Memorization All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. (Romans 3:23) as an example to use, please fi nd additional questions at Everything you need is located right after the schedule each week. If the back of the Bible book Sing the Word: From A to Z “All have sinned”—Track 1 Timelines are helpful because not every book we read will be in chronological order. When we read them Memorization | Romans 3:23 and mark dates on our timeline, we are better able Find the verses your children will memorize on the History/Geography to understand how events fit together: which things weekly schedule. After your children memorize these occurred at the same time, which things came first, and The Usborne Children’s pp. 114–115 pp. 116–117 verses, we recommend they say the name of the letter of which things came later. Encyclopedia the alphabet before saying the verse itself. Thus: “A—All You may wish to use the figures we sell, or use color have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Romans markers, pens, and pencils to write on your timeline the Living Long Ago pp. 2–3; 26–27 pp. 50–51 3:23. B—Believe in the Lord Jesus …,” etc. names and dates of significant events, persons, etc. Whatever method you use, we believe your overall We also strongly encourage you to have your children sense of history will be enhanced if you maintain this memorize the verse and the reference to help in locating a note appears about a concept in a book, it’s easy to find it right after 5-Day: I Heard Good chap. 60 News Today discipline throughout the year. the verse in the Bible itself. Our purpose in this assignment is not only to instill Markable Map good Scriptures within our children’s hearts and Read-Alouds minds, but to help them develop confidence and Sonlight’s geography program weaves throughout the ability in public speaking. The Boxcar Children chap. I chaps. yearII–III with assignments chap. IV from almostchap. every V book you read. Encourage your children to say their verses loudly, Look for the symbol on the schedule page. This will boldly, and with a lot of expression, this adds a sense alert you to a map assignment that day. Use the maps of drama to the words. 5-Day: The Story we have included with each day's map assignment Entireto book Over the next 26 weeks or so, your children will About Ping find each location.