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Starting Points World View Primer
Starting Points Overview
 Starting Points, where our thinking begins, is the introductory
course to the three-year course World Views of the Western World by David Quine.
It provides the basic foundation of the Biblical world view, practice in identifying literature based upon the Biblical world view,
three approaches to apologetics, and an
understanding of the world view of the founding of the US.
The Starting Points guide includes a weekly teaching overview, daily Assignments,
explanations, outlines, short answer questions, and essay questions.
Starting Points is a research based unit study. It incorporates all major disciplines (except math) into
one study of famous (and not-so famous) inventors, inventions, and
entrepreneurs. Encourages child to start a business, develop a new
product, or try out an apprenticeship.
For Grades 7 to 12, three credits are available in Bible,
Literature, and American History.
Starting Points Curriculum
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Starting Points
Where Our Thinking Begins
David Quine
Required resources are listed in the order they are used. An asterisk * indicates a resource that is
more difficult to find (meaning it probably won’t be available at your local
library.)
- Answers for Difficult Days, David Quine *
- Know What You Believe, Paul Little *
- How to Read Slowly, James Sire *
- The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
- It’s a Wonderful Life (Video) (Wal-Mart usually has these around Christmas time)
- The Wizard of Oz (Video)
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Deadliest Monster, Jeff Baldwin *
- Know Why You Believe, Paul Little *
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
- Assumptions, Christian Overman *
- Never Before In History, Gary Amos *
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9780012103401 |
List $45.00
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Christian Overman
 “In this classical work Pastor Overman traces
with clarity the foundations of Western thought back to two opposing traditions:
the ancient Greeks, who fathered secular, human-centered rationalism, and the
ancient Hebrews, who carried forward to God’s revelation.” 4th Edition |
0974342572 |
$14.00
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David Quine |
9780965651219 |
$6.00
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Paul E Little
A practical discussion of the fundamentals of the
Christian faith, Know What You Believe helps new and longtime believers understand the basic
truths of their Christian faith. |
Limited Quantity
Out of Print
9780781439640 |
List $12.99
Sale 10.49
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James W. Sire
How to Read Slowly “helps readers detect no only what writers say
but what lies behind what they say.” Helps teach reading comprehension. |
9780877883579 |
$12.99
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C. S. Lewis All seven books
of the Chronicles of Narnia have been published in this paperback
edition with the original illustrations by Pauline Baynes. The books are
placed in reading order. |
9780066238500 |
List
$21.99
Sale 19.95
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Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley |
9780486282114 |
$2.00
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Robert Louis Stevenson |
9780486266886 |
$1.00
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J. F. Baldwin |
Limited Quantity Out of Print
9780966317602 |
$12.00
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Paul Little
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Limited Quantity Out of Print
9780781439633 |
List $10.99
Sale $9.99
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C. S. Lewis
Powerful rational case for Christianity. |
9780060652920 |
List $11.95
Sale
$10.95
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Gary Amos |
9780964210424 |
List
$35.00
Sale $31.49
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Never Before In History Teacher Book
Gary Amos |
9780964210431 |
List
$19.00
Sale $17.99
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Let Us Highly Resolve (Families Living for Christ in the 21st Century)
David and Shirley Quine
Equip your children with a Christian worldview in
order to counter the current thoughts and ideas of secular humanism.
Teach you children to reason and discern truth in
a post-Christian culture
Prepare your children from the Word of God to
Challenge the culture with the truth of Christianity and the life of Christ.
Lead your family to live in the 21st century by
taking the course that David and Shirley have so carefully charted through a
life of faith. |
9780965651202 |
$10.00
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James W. Sire
In addition to explications of such worldviews as theism,
deism, naturalism, nihilism, Marxism, and others, this third edition includes a
new chapter on postmodernism and a thoroughly revised chapter on New Age
philosophy. |
Out of Print Limited Quantity 0830818995 |
$15.00
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James W. Sire
Now in its fourth edition, the Universe Next Door explains
and evaluates eight different perspectives ranging from Christian theism through
naturalism and existentialism to New Age and postmodernism.
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9780830827800 |
$17.00
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Revised
03/26/08
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