Pilgrim’s Progress Curriculum

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Introduction

Timeline

• Homeschool in the Woods: Timeline Helps

Week 1

Science

• Sir Francis Bacon
• Philosophical Naturalism and the Age of the Earth: Are They Related?

Language Arts

• Answers: Allegory Topic
• Wikipedia: Allegory
• Wikipedia: Allegory in the Middle Ages
• Christian Allegory in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparison of George Herbert and John Bunyan

Digging Deeper

• Is the Bible True?
• Is There Really a God?

Week 2

History

• The Early Church on Creation
• The Book of Common Prayer

Science

• The Galileo Affair: History or Heroic Hagiography?

Language Arts

• Tower of Babel
• The Development of Languages is Nothing Like Biological Evolution
• Wikipedia: History of the English language
• Wikipedia: Early Modern English
• Wikipedia: History of the English Language
• Great Vowel Shift

Week 3

History

• Britian Express: Tudor England

Science

• Johannes Kepler

Language arts

• Shakespeare
• The Literature Network: William Shakespeare
• Wikipedia: William Shakespeare

Digging Deeper

• Original Sin at the BBC

Week 4

History

• Wikipedia: 1650–1700 in Western European fashion
• Outdoor Games: Tip-Cat
• Wikipedia: Tip-cat
• Encyclopædia Brittanica: Tip-cat
• Elizabethan Theatre
• Biographical Index of English Drama Before 1660

Science

• Wikipedia: Walter Charleton

Digging Deeper

• Apologetics
• Why Were Eve’s Eyes Not Opened Until Adam Ate?

Week 5

History

• Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge

Science

• Encyclopædia Brittanica: Sir William Petty
• Wikipedia: William Petty

Language Arts

• John Milton

Digging Deeper

• In the Days of Peleg
• Noah, a Global Flood, and the Case Against Racism
• Answers in Genesis Online Store
• Cain’s Wife

Week 6

History

• Art History Resources: Baroque
• Artcyclopedia: The Baroque Era

Science

• Encyclopædia Brittanica: Robert Boyle

Language Arts

• Introduction to Poetry Types
• Poetry for Kids

Digging Deeper

• The Answers Book for Kids: Volume 2
• Where Are You, Metaphor?
• Jesus
• What Will You Do with Dinosaurs?
• Was the Garden of Eden Located in Iraq?

Week 7

History

• Baroque Composers’ Portrait Gallery

Science

• John Ray—Founder of Biology and Devout Christian

Language Arts

• Selected Works of Sir Walter Raleigh
• Sir Walter Raleigh
• British Explorers: Sir Walter Raleigh
• BBC: Walter Raleigh
• Wikipedia: Walter Raleigh

Digging Deeper

• The Last Adam
• Biographies
• Science Topic

Week 8

History

• The Origin of the Hymns of the Liturgy
• Wikipedia: Hymn
• New Advent: Hymnody and Hymnology

Science

• Great Creation Scientists: Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

Language Arts

• Quince Recipes
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Ancient Cookery
• Medieval and Renaissance Food: Sources, Recipes, and Articles
• Cooking from Primary Sources: Some General Comments
• A Book of Cookrye

Digging Deeper

• Bishop Ussher
• The Early Church on Creation
• Why Does Creation Matter?

Week 9

History / Language Arts

• Isaac Watts, Hymn-writer
• Isaac Watts: Hymn Writer
• Isaac Watts

Science

• Isaac Barrow: 1630–1677
• Encyclopædia Brittanica: Isaac Barrow

Digging Deeper

• Fox’s Book of Martyrs: History of Christian Martyrs to the First General Persecutions
• Voice of the Martyrs

Week 10

History

• Wikipedia: New Model Army

Science

• Great Creation Scientists: Nicolas Steno (1638–1686)

Language Arts

• The Literature Network: John Donne
• Luminarium: John Donne
• Wikipedia: Metaphysical Poets
• Wikipedia: John Donne
• Biography.com: John Donne
• Encyclopædia Brittanica: John Donne

Digging Deeper

• What Is the Meaning of Life?

Week 11

Science

• Nehemiah Grew: The Anatomy of Plants
• History of the Telescope - Binocular
• The Telescope

Language Arts

• Wikipedia: English Folklore
• Wikipedia: Morris Dance
• What Will You Do with Dinosaurs?
• Wikipedia: European Dragon

Digging Deeper

• Lobster eyes—brilliant geometric design

Week 12

History

• John Bunyan’s Works
• John Bunyan
• Wikipedia: John Bunyan
• Abide with Me (video available from www.bimi.org)

Science

• Sir Isaac Newton
• Gravity: THe Mystery Force

Week 13

History

• Wikipedia: Bunhill Fields
• Bunhill Fields: a History.

Science

• Zonkeys, Ligers, and Wolphins, Oh My!
• Carl Linnaeus
• Wikipedia: Carl Linnaeus

Week 19

Digging Deeper

• The Last Adam

Week 34

Truths to Ponder

• Answers in Genesis Online Store