We basically followed the Teacher's Guide for this one. I usually like to write out my own lesson plan but the guide was nicely laid out and well, I was also short of time!

Some of the things we did:

We made a family tree up to her great-grand-parents on both sides, looked at old photos (including a picture of her daddy's maternal great-great grand-parents - male was supposedly a Cherokee, but in the picture he had facial hair so we are not sure! ) and talked about the value of pictures and the importance of leaving records.

She writes in her journal most evenings before bed and she realized how that could one day be passed to her children and grandchildren and how it would serve as a kind of record for her descendants (a word she reviewed).

We sang “A Mighty Fortress is Our God” and she wrote for her note book,“History is His Story” on a sheet of paper. She also copied Psalm 78:7 under that statement and transformed the sheet into a pretty poster.

On the last day, I printed out Deut. 7:18 and 6:2. She underlined “remembered” in both the verses and we talked about what the verses meant. We also looked on-line the 1828 Webster definition of “remember”. Under the two verses she wrote,”We study History to remember what God has done.”

She read the two assigned pages and we discussed the assigned questions.

All in all, it was a good introduction. I look forward to the next chapter on “Government”.