January 26, 2012
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Having a Horrible Time
(or, I need your help)I’m trying to work on a project… and it’s just NOT coming together for me. I don’t do this often, but… I need help. Ideas, brainstorming… people who can actually visualize and count at the same time… that kind of thing. Because I’m feeling really, really blonde, and I know this can’t be that complicated.
Here’s the thing: For our schooling, we do a Book of Centuries. It’s a comb-bound book in which we put people, places, and events that happened in history. It’s in order, from Creation to the present. I’m kinda picky about what goes into it, but when we study history, Bible, music, etc… we add composers, artists, Bible characters, famous places (Westminister Abbey built, Pyramids, Hanging Gardens), famous people (Richard the LionHeart, Leif Erikson, George Washington) and more.
I am wanting to start in on the Story of Yeshua this year with the kids. They know who He is, how He factors into the feasts, what He did on the cross, that He’s coming back… but they don’t know the events of His life. So I’ve got a ‘Harmony of the Gospels’ .pdf (LINK) to help us do it in order as we read, using all four gospels at the same time. It should be fun.
BUT…!! Yeshua’s life was only 33 years long. In the grand scheme of things, extremely brief. And I don’t wanna just stick a cross in the Book of Centuries and call it good. It’s more important than that. And it’s also the division point between AD and BC (or BCE and BC, if you’re… nevermind). So having something unique between the two would be good… kind of a separator.
In comes my idea. I saw this ‘timeline of Christ’ at a Catholic site a long time ago (LINK). It’s a wall chart that you print off and cut out and tape up… then you affix pictures of His life as you read them. Only I want to do this for the Book of Centuries – a fold-out timeline, if you will. Using my own (less-twaddly) pictures… cuz I got some BEAUTIFUL ones, that are really amazing.
NoTe: Yes, I have wrestled with the issue of ‘No Graven Images’ mightily where this is concerned. But I have come to a conclusion: That that command had to be in regards to Yehovah, not Yeshua, as Yehovah is boundless/formless, while Yeshua had a specific appearance unique to Him. Also, because of His physicality during His ministry, the potrayal of such His interactions as a man requires an image. And throw in the fact that these are children who understand better with a visual, it’s a no-brainer – we’re doing the picture thing. With the STRONG emphasis on the fact that these are just renderings of Yeshua, how people imagine He looked, as we don’t know.Regardless, we’re talking about using cardstock instead of copy paper. And it would be comb-bound (at least one page of it) to secure it in the Book of Centuries. But how to do it?! I can fit eight pictures per page – two columns and four rows. But it would require nine pages to do what I want to do… I have access to the arrows (any size I want!) because they’re standard Word shapes offered on the toolbar.
The problem is keeping things in order. Going accordion-style is a waste of paper. I thought flaps to fold out on either side and top and bottom, but that gets… confusing to me. That’s where my brain’s *TILT* light goes on, and I start to go a little crazy.
Any ideas on how to do this?
Comments (5)
I know that you really want to put it in the Book of Centuries but maybe it might be best to have a separate book for His life. Maybe you could put in a four pages, detailing his birth, baptism, death, and resurrection. Then have a separate book detailing his life and teachings.
I’ll think about it today and see what I can come up with. :spin:
Oh, DUH!!! A *BOOK* form!!! Why am I such an idiot?! That would be so simple – BOOK form, not LAPBOOK form. See? I just needed you to come here and talk logic to me, because my brain was stuck! Thank you!! :dance:
I like the idea of a seperate book format. :thumbsup:
Well according to the history channel he looked like this guy: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/forensics/1282186 Most modern day images of Yeshua (note from the time the church got involved to now) aren’t even simply imaginings of what He looked like, but a complete whitewashing of his Jewish ethnicity. They couldn’t identify with someone that was Jewish, so they just made him a handsome-European white dude, which was cool with the catholic church, since they weren’t into Jews anyway (not even going to touch the shroud of turin here..). No one could understand the tongue the Bible was read in, until Martin Luther, so they had to draw the masses in with flashy images.. kind of like a marketing tool. If you got information on what a Jewish male of that era would of looked like, then maybe the kids could even be creative with some of the images.
One of my lost links did their century book as a three ring binder then for times they really needed smaller they did two hole size pages that went with the larger page spread. So you’d open the two page spread that goes from x_____x that includes his time and at the lower half of the page is the smaller kind of separate story. You could put a small colored bar or dot to show “this is where this story takes place”. Kind of like putting a magnifying glass on a page. Since yours is already comb bound you might attach the back cover to the page.
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