Adventures in Parenting

Text to World connection

by Graham // 2 comments // tagged with: Elisabeth, home schooling

When I taught early elementary grades, I encouraged my students to make different kinds of connections:
  1. Self-to-text: when they identified with something in a story.
  2. Text-to-world: when then related literature to the real world.
  3. Text-to-text: when they saw a relationship between two pieces of text.
Today we had one of those text-to-world connections. I took Elisabeth to the Met for Start with Art, and we spent our time in the Ancient Near East galleries, where we looked at lion reliefs commissioned by Nebuchadnezzar II for the city of Babylon.

When we opened up the Bible this evening to read, we found ourselves reading Daniel 2, where Daniel interacted with the same king who commissioned the lions.

Comments

Hermeneutics begins early!

— by Seda about 1 year ago

It has indeed!

— by Graham about 1 year ago


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