I'm Sonia Schaefer with Simply Charlotte Mason. Bible lessons are the most important lessons

that you can give your students from the time they are young until the time they graduate.

Charlotte Mason believed that their Bible lessons should help them to realize in early days

that the knowledge of God is the principal knowledge, and therefore that their Bible lessons

are their chief lessons. Home Education, page 251. So let's talk about how to teach this important

subject. For Bible lessons, you will need a Bible.

That's about it.

You may find a study Bible or a commentary helpful for your own preparation, or if you have a high school student.

More about that in a moment.

Bible lessons are narration lessons.

That means that you will be reading directly from the Bible and having your students

tell back what they recall about that reading in their own words.

If you've watched the video about how to do narration,

you'll be familiar with these steps. I'll walk you through it and also leave a link in the

description in case you want to watch that video again. There are four steps to a narration

lesson. Step 1. Review last times reading. You'll be reading the Bible accounts in chronological

order during your Bible lessons, simply working your way through Bible history from creation

to the early church. So before you read the next part of the story, you want your students

to mentally retrieve last times reading so they can continue to continue part of the story, you want your students to mentally retrieve

last time's reading so they can connect to it the one you're about to read.

Now, this review does not have to be long or elaborate.

Simply, last time we read about the Israelites' standoff with the Philistines and their champion

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