This is a four year history lesson outline to be used by the whole family. For now I will be posting the first year of lessons. This can be used as a stand alone guide, but for the recommended supplemental material for this year you will need the first volume and the first activity book of The Story of the World, and you will need Part 1 of From Adam to Us, along with the Map Book and Student Activity Book that go with it.

Begin with lesson 1A.

Once you finish the four years of lessons, start over. Every student should completely finish the curriculum at least twice in their school years, with activities adapted to their age and understanding. The yearly lessons are labeled by lesson number and year letter (1A is lesson one in the first year outline). This outline focuses on concurrent historical events and on the order of events rather than memorizing a bunch of dates. You can use it as a stand alone guide, but I highly recommend using it to correlate the two curriculums mentioned above. I also add LDS-Christian commentary to the lessons.

And please feel free to add your own suggested books or other learning materials to the comments section of the pertinent date.

Thursday, August 27, 2020

11A -- 722 BC Shalmaneser V- final captivity 10 tribes

 


1. Lesson pages from Supplemental Materials:

·         From Adam to Us: p. 159-172 (additional activities for these pages are in the accompanying Map Book and Student Workbook)

·         The Story of the World, vol. 1: p. 112-121, 142-154, 198-204 (additional activities for these pages are in the accompanying The Story of the World: Activity Book One)

2. Study material for family discussion (older students can read on their own, parents can read and summarize for younger students):

Read 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 15

2 Chronicles 11—28

Hosea

Amos

Jonah

Micah

 

After the Kingdom of Israel split from Judah, they had two hundred years of terribly wicked kings. During this time, God, ever patient and loving, sent several prophets to them to warn them that if they continued in their wickedness, they would be punished. Finally, during the reign of Hoshea, the Lord allowed them to be invaded and carried off by Shalmaneser V of Assyria. The next king, Sargon II, finished off the removal of the 10 tribes and sent other people to live in their lands.

Assyria, ruled by kings with really cool names, had been building an empire for several centuries, and during this time period they expanded their territory. For a time the capital city of Nineveh listened to the prophet Jonah and repented of many of their evil doings. This did not last. They remained powerful long enough to carry the 10 tribes away and send other people to live in their land, but within the following century Assyria would fall and Nineveh would be left in ruins.

Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Hosea, and Amos were all prophets in the northern kingdom of Israel. Elijah was a prophet of extraordinary faith and obedience like Moses. He was sent to a widow who was most likely a Phoenician, not an Israelite. She demonstrated faith and kindness through her act of giving the last of her food to Elijah. The story of Elijah being taken to heaven in a fiery chariot is so amazing, and through modern revelation we get further insight that he was translated so that he could keep the priesthood keys of sealing that had been given to him, and then later he gave these to Peter, James, and John. In the latter days, in Kirtland, he conferred them to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, and they have been passed down through the prophets of the church since then. (https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/bd/elijah?lang=eng)

The Jews still leave an empty place at their table when they celebrate Passover because they have the tradition that Elijah will return, as foretold in Malachi 4:5-6, they just don’t realize that it already happened in 1836!

The story in 2 Kings 16 where Elisha sees angelic warriors prepared to help fight is also an important story with an unforgettable quote, “They that be with us are more than they that be with them.” God’s power is always mightier than anything any enemy can raise against us.

Amos lived in Judah but prophesied in Israel.

Micah and Isaiah were prophets in Judah.

As the Kingdom of Israel was taken captive, people continued to spread over the earth and kings and tribal leaders rose and fell in lands everywhere. The Greek nation was rising. Homer, the supposedly blind poet, was writing down the stories of the Trojan War that had been passed down for generations. And the Phoenicians were continuing to sail the Mediterranean and settle new lands, including a city named Carthage on the northern coast of Africa.

In Italy, a tribe called the Etruscans was getting civilized in the area of Tuscany, while south of Tuscany, tradition tells us that two boys named Romulus and Remus had been doomed to drown only to be saved by a she-wolf.

In Egypt, the pharaohs of the 25th dynasty were from the land south of Egypt, Nubia, which lies mostly in modern day Sudan. 

3. Attention Getter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9LnzJnpjQ  

4. Videos: Pick through these, you might want to watch a couple each evening for the two weeks of this lesson.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pa54hWROpQ (Assyrian Empire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLn-KuHalOY (Assyria, when the video says Samaria, they are referring to the Kingdom of Israel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVFW3wbi9pk (Overview of Kings, watch from 3:30 to 7:00)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/children/videos/scripture-stories/old-testament/33-the-prophet-elijah?lang=eng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAwuKUHKKBw (Elijah and the Widow)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/children/videos/scripture-stories/old-testament/34-elijah-and-the-priests-of-baal?&lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/children/videos/scripture-stories/old-testament/35-elijah-talks-with-jesus?&lang=eng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m73kf8Z1aZo (Elijah taken to heaven)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/children/videos/scripture-stories/old-testament/36-elijah-and-elisha?&lang=eng

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/children/videos/scripture-stories/old-testament/37-the-prophet-elisha-three-miracles?&lang=eng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkfrI3dpJE (Elisha and Naaman)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DafgIYjHvw (Elisha and the Syrians)

https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/children/videos/scripture-stories/old-testament/38-jonah?&lang=eng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgWaPGpGz4&list=PLH0Szn1yYNeeVFodkI9J_WEATHQCwRZ0u&index=21 (Overview of Amos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE6SZ1ogOVU&list=PLH0Szn1yYNeeVFodkI9J_WEATHQCwRZ0u&index=19 (Overview of Hosea, more appropriate for teens)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFEUEcylwLc&list=PLH0Szn1yYNeeVFodkI9J_WEATHQCwRZ0u&index=24 (Overview of Micah)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0A6Uchb1F8&list=PLH0Szn1yYNeeVFodkI9J_WEATHQCwRZ0u&index=14 (Overview of Isaiah part 1, to 4:47, choose whether to show or just summarize)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2WVHE4X3c (Etruscans—PREVIEW!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1D9wd29jI (Romulus and Remus)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAS3Z7cXuuU (Carthage founded by Queen Elissar (a.k.a. Alyssa, Dido)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnoqlCV__z4&pp=QADQAwE%3D (Nubia, watch from 10:57 to 14:16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O47rZQLp82Y (Nubian King/ Egyptian Pharaoh Piye)

 

5. Mapping: Map 5 in the Bible Maps of the Gospel Library shows the Assyrian Empire after they exiled the 10 tribes. The map activity from Chapter Twenty (on Student Page 57) of The Story of the World: Activity Book One focuses on Greece. The map activity from Chapter Twenty-seven in the same activity book (Student Page 84) shows Rome and the Etruscan territory.

6. Worksheets: There are several good activities under Fun and Games on these pages:

https://www.biblewise.com/characters_topics/elijah-elisha.php

https://www.biblewise.com/characters_topics/jonah.php

There are good activities about ancient Greece in Chapter Twenty of The Story of the World: Activity Book One.

 

7. Discussion For Teens: You will research two opposing sides of a topic, and then discuss these with a parent or peers and come to an agreement on the topic. Your consensus may agree with one side or another, or may end up being some combination of the two. For this lesson, discuss whether or not you think some group of the ten tribes is living together and will return as a body in the days “Last Days” before the Millennium. Do some thorough research before coming to a conclusion.

8. Memory DatesWorksheet:  If you need help, use the answers on Page One to complete one of the four worksheets

 


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