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For the Temple (Heirloom Audio Productions) {Review}

For the Temple (Heirloom Audio Productions) {Review}

Heirloom Audio Productions

In your homeschool resources toolbelt, do you have a company that you return to again and again for supplemental study sources? We do! For us, this is the amazing Heirloom Audio Productions and their latest G.A. Henty Adventure. This year, we are being whisked off to the shores of the Sea of Galilee and from the midst of a storm on the water into the throws of battle with Josephus. Whether one is on the side of the Roman Army or the Jewish Zealots, there is adventure and terror and hope for a future within the story of For the Temple. Through the blessing of participating in the Homeschool Review Crew, my family was given a physical CD-set with 2.5 hours of audio drama and emailed a PDF Study Guide for the same title.

Heirloom Audio

Our CD bin includes quite a few titles from Heirloom Audio Productions that are collecting as we can. I still have an active membership on Live the Adventure Club website and forum and I love the materials I can share with my older students. Yet, listening to the audio in the car while we run errands here and there, we all enjoy the thrill of the adventure and they all beg for more, just a little bit more.

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For the Temple

As we were listening to the audio en route to the pharmacy (once again this season…) I was struck by hearing the names of the towns and realizing many would be a challenge for myself to spell correctly and I was struck by how this would be a great cross-curricular skill for my oldest daughter to practice. Gischalla, for one example!

Once again, we are enjoying an audio dramatization written by Darby Kern and a soundtrack written by John Campbell (of Narnia fame) filled with actor voices of noted talent makes the pages of history vibrant and interesting. The two boys in this adventure, in typical Henty fashion, are John of Gamala and Jonas. There is also a bit of romance with a girl named Mary as well… Listening to how John grows from a boy youth into a young man of heroic bravery and finding amusement in how people praise him when they do not know their John, is the John of legend…

The time is coming when every Jew who can bear arms will be needed in the service of his country. Your hopes cannot stop it.

Ancient History – Live the Adventure!

  • 1250 B.C. The Cat of Bubastes
  • 61 A.D. Beric the Briton
  • 70 A.D. For the Temple

The Middle Ages – Live the Adventure!

  • 870 The Dragon and the Raven
  • 1066 Wulf the Saxon
  • 1314 In Freedom’s Cause

Reformation & Exploration – Live the Adventure!

  • 1580 St. Bartholomew’s Eve
  • 1580 Under Drake’s Flag

Colonial Era – Live the Adventure!

  • 1783 In the Reign of Terror

Napoleonic Era – Live the Adventure!

  • 1815 One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo

Victorian Era – Live the Adventure!

  • 1856 Captain Bayley’s Heir
  • 1860 In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado
  • 1861 With Lee in Virginia
For the Temple (Heirloom Audio Productions) {Review}For the Temple by G.A. Henty
Series: The Extraordinary Adventures of G.A. Henty #11

Also in this series: The Cat of Bubastes, In the Reign of Terror, Captain Bayley's Heir
Also by this author: The Cat of Bubastes, In the Reign of Terror, Captain Bayley's Heir
Genres: Educational Resources, Christian Historical Fiction, Juvenile, Historical Fiction
Published by Heirloom Audio Productions on 2018
Format: Audio CD
Length: 2 hours 30 minutes
Source: Homeschool Review Crew

Only the son of a vintner from the land near the shores of the Sea of Galilee who wishes to grow into manhood and live in peace and marry his Mary becomes so much more when he becomes "that John" in the time of the Roman occupation and Josephus. The Zealots and the Romans go javelin to the sword and each battle gets closer to deciding if the temple will be saved or destroyed.

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I try to keep a decent awareness of what is coming from Heirloom Audio Productions. While I am still checking my mailbox for my St. Bartholomew’s Eve CD, we eagerly awaiting In the Heart of the Rockies, One of the 28th: A Tale of Waterloo, and perhaps Bell Mountain – all from Heirloom Audio Productions coming in 2019.

Study Guide

In the past few years, my girls, especially, have gotten very invested in listening to a variety of Christian audio drama CDs. It is often that they relive adventures from The Extraordinary Adventures of G.A. Henty collection. We started out with a study guide (draft?) downloaded from our Live the Adventure Club Dashboard and later in the review, we were sent an email with final PDF in it’s full-color glory.

While there are not quite as many extras and bonuses available (yet) for the For the Temple title, there is still plenty to do and to learn. My daughter goes back and forth between listening to the audio streaming online and using the CD set. We are enjoying discussing through the Listening Well, Thinking Further, and Defining Words. Using the Study Guide, I am inspired to bounce off in a full unit study. Although, this year we are focusing our main school on American History, so perhaps this will hold another year when we return to Ancient Greece and Rome. The study guide is the best of the bonuses available. I have said it before, but I still think so, as the vibrantly graphic document of more than 50+ pages walks through the entire audio drama. From narration, discussion, and dictionary skills, we are full-on learning across the curriculum here. The guide really helps us to go deeper.

I prefer to use the study guide as a digital element on a device as opposed to printing the PDF because it is gorgeous and full-color and my printer is not that friendly. Using it digitally is worth it and so simple to do from my iPad tablet and laptop computers. It is continually amazing to me that I passed my entire youth without knowing and hearing the stories of G.A. Henty. I did grow up with audio drama theater, so it is perfect to use such vibrant resources with teaching my own children classic living stories with glimpses of the past.

Once again, a Henty adventure has become the introduction for my children to such a time. We have discussed the time of Nicodemus and Titus, but this story brings it so much more off the page and out of history into our minds. We have never really studied war and the moral aspects behind it and the individuals with their decisions to make in regards to conscious and obedience to orders given when enlisted. This brought up all sorts of invested conversations and the study guide was a great hand to hold when discovering how different situations affect all sides of people involved and those that come after.

As a child, I do not remember learning about Josephus, however, in my college studies as I was earning my degree in Religious Studies I learned about efforts in Jewish and Roman history as General Josephus. Thanks to a biography blurb under loyalty I have been able to introduce my daughter to the person of Josephus, Yosef. It has piqued her interest and she cannot wait to go read a book on Flavius that we have on our shelves. I am loving how familiar names are truly giving her pegs to base her historical and Biblical knowledge off of.

In my opinion, whether is for discussing biographies, talking about the Wall of Jerusalem, or how people of the time are introduced to Yeshua… I find this study guide to be so full of possibilities and details to learn and master. We are using it loosely now, but I fully plan to go in depth with when we study Roman history once again (next school year!). And now, we’re off to listen to Beric the Briton in our CD collection…

Heirloom Audio Productions ~Cat of Bubastes

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For The Temple {Heirloom Audio Reviews}

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