I bet many of you are familiar with Considering God’s Creation by Susan Mortimer as a science curriculum, but have you also heard of her history curricula, Remembering God’s Awesome Acts and Remembering God’s Chosen Children?
Of the two history books, I’ve only used Remembering God’s Awesome Acts, so it’s the one I’ll review here. But, as much as I liked it, I won’t hesitate to recommend Remembering God’s Chosen Children, too!
Remembering God’s Awesome Acts is a history and Bible curriculum in one that covers ancient history from Creation to Moses. In unit study style, the activities include much more than just history and Bible! Art (including detailed drawing lessons), writing, poetry, drama, culture studies, languages, anthropology, archaeology and much more make this study very exciting and interesting from day to day.
Important topics such as evolution vs. creation are tackled, as well as world religions and missions. Many of the ancient history topics are brought home through lessons on current culture and people who make a difference as Christians today.
The curriculum is broken down into eight units:
- Unit 1 – Who is God?
- Unit 2 – Who is Man?
- Unit 3 – The Fall of Man
- Unit 4 – God Saves Noah
- Unit 5 – Dispersion of Man
- Unit 6 – The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
- Unit 7 – Joseph in Egypt
- Unit 8 – Moses Leads the Israelites Out of Egypt
A teacher’s guide leads the teacher through the unit with suggestions on how to introduce each section, short read alouds, and directions on what workbook pages to use when. Bible verse references are always included with each new topic within the unit. Sample work, answer keys, hieroglyphic flashcards and a small list of recommended supplements are included, too.
A “Create-A-Notebook” is provided for your student. (You will need one of these for each child.) Within the notebook are more than 270 pages front and back of activities for your student to complete. I have been so impressed with these sheets! Once the curriculum is complete, your child truly has a wonderful notebook documenting the entire unit, Genesis through Exodus 12. I can’t possibly describe all 270 pages, but here are some of the activities your child will complete:
- maps
- charts
- visual organizers
- to scale drawings
- country studies
- language studies
- outlines
- writing assignments
- review sheets from lessons learned
- games and puzzles
- logic and math sheets
- an much more!
Another positive…the study can be used with any child from 5th grade to 12th grade, so all of your older children can work through it at once! As with most unit study style curriculum, it’s hard to put a time frame on how long it will take. For most families, I can easily see it lasting most of a year. Families who have a little more scoot in their boots might be able to complete it in a semester.
I’d love to hear from you if you’ve used either of these history books from Susan Mortimer! What did you think?
-Written by Cindy, eclectically Charlotte Mason mom of three. You can find her blogging at Our Journey Westward and Shining Dawn Books.
The biggest reason Cindy chose to homeschool was because she loves experiencing life with her children and watching them grow inside and out. She's sure that’s why the Charlotte Mason method first caught her attention. It allows her to be creative in scheduling, rigorous in learning, yet opens the door for plenty of close-knit time, opportunities for her children to explore their interests and offers enough free time for them to be children. She implements many of Charlotte Mason's methods with an eclectic twist of things that work for her family! At Cindy's website, Our Journey Westward, you will find a blog packed with fun learning ideas and a shop full of creative curriculum, including the NaturExplorers studies.
Glad to read your recommendation. I just bought this — used from Homeschool Classifieds. I thought it would be a great Bible/history resource for notebooking.
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Yes! The pages are perfect for notebooking.
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I have worked through Remembering God’s Awesome Acts with my eldest son and we loved it, learnt a lot and discovered heaps. I really like when there is a cut and stick activity that they take into account to print the back of the page accordingly!!! We are about to start our school year and I will work through this with the next son – looking forward to it!!!
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I’m so glad to know how much you’ve enjoyed this program, too!
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And here I thought I’d heard about most of the curriculum out there. I guess not. Thanks for introducing this to me. Learning about God’s providence while notebooking sound very Principle Approachish. 😉
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My used copy never showed up. Oh well. But I bought it new from Lamppost Publishing. LOVE this! I’m using it at the start of our ancient history study. It’s GREAT! I love how it integrates so many disciplines with the Bible.
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How frustrating that your used copy never showed! I’m glad you like it. There’s a wealth of info and I LOVE the research aspect to many of the pages.
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I never heard of these two books. I’m going to have to look into them. From what you described about them in your article, they like good books to read and study from. Thank you Cindy and God Bless You
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Hi there – glad to find your review. This is the recommended study for Eastern Hemisphere by Sonlight, and I was checking it out and found you!
I have not a clue how to use these lesson plans…..I love the material, I have the books, but I cannot seem to grasp how to plan it out. What other subjects do I need to add?
Kathy,
Did you say you have the teacher’s guide? I find when I’m really struggling to grasp a curriculum, it might not be the one we’re supposed to use. (I’ve pushed aside my fair share of “but it seemed so good” curriculum.)
If you decide to continue with it, you will need to add at least math and language arts. Although there is writing incorporated, there is no grammar, reading comprehension, etc. I would add a separate science curriculum, too.
I hope this helps. Please ask other questions if you have them!