Bible

About this course

Second grade is where Bible becomes a full daily subject with a real spine. Eight strands rotate through the year: Old Testament survey (Creation and the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, the Tower of Babel, Abraham, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Esau, Joseph, Moses, the plagues and the Exodus), New Testament survey (John the Baptist, the baptism and temptation of Jesus, the calling of the disciples, the Beatitudes, the healings, Zacchaeus, Palm Sunday, the Last Supper, and the resurrection appearances), Christian character, Bible study skills, church history, apologetics, ethics, and worldview. The church history strand runs straight through Acts, from Pentecost and Stephen to Philip and the Ethiopian, Saul's conversion, Paul's journeys, the trouble at Corinth, and John on Patmos. The apologetics strand takes on real questions at a child's level, including how we know Jesus lived, whether the resurrection happened, who made God, why God allows suffering, what to do with doubts, and how to talk to a friend about Jesus.

The course is 180 lessons across 15 units, one lesson per school day. Each unit is 12 lessons on one strand, and the first seven strands come around a second time later in the year with new material rather than review. A lesson runs about 15 minutes: a short passage of teaching prose that quotes the King James text directly, discussion questions to talk through together, a KJV memory verse, and often a small hands-on activity such as making a four-page worldview booklet or looking up a word in a concordance. Every lesson ends with a ten-question multiple-choice quiz that grades itself.

The writing here is a genuine step up from first grade. It is expository rather than storybook, it quotes chapter and verse constantly, and it expects your student to hold a longer thought. A confident second-grade reader can work through much of it, but reading it aloud together is still the intended way, and the Bible study skills unit in particular assumes an adult nearby, since it teaches finding a reference, using a table of contents, marking a Bible, and working with a dictionary and concordance on an actual physical Bible. On questions Christians genuinely differ about, the course generally lays out the ground rather than settling it for you and your family.

What the course covers

• Old Testament survey from Genesis through the Exodus
• New Testament survey: the life, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus
• Church history from Pentecost through Acts and the early persecutions
• Apologetics: evidence for God, the Bible, and the resurrection
• Hard questions: who made God, why God allows suffering, handling doubt
• Christian character: honesty, diligence, humility, contentment, perseverance
• Ethics: fairness, truthfulness, promises, speech, and forgiveness
• Christian worldview: creation, fall, redemption, restoration
• Bible study skills: references, translations, marking, dictionary, concordance

What your student will be able to do

• Look up a Bible passage by book, chapter, and verse without help
• Use a Bible dictionary, concordance, and cross-references to study a word or topic
• Retell the main line of Old Testament history from Creation to the Exodus
• Give a simple reason for believing the Bible and the resurrection
• Name the four parts of the Christian worldview and a verse for each
• Apply a Bible principle to an everyday choice about honesty, property, or forgiveness

Scope and sequence

All 15 units of Bible for Grade 2, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 180 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 180 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.