Gladys Aylward by Janet and 

Geoff Benge 

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Chapter 1: Back up the Tracks

• The publishers, YWAM, have a downloadable unit study curriculum guide, on their website. I think it’s free to sign up for the website, and right now, the price is discounted to $5.49 (from $9.99)
• This set of free worksheets has some beautiful notebooking pages for Gladys, pages 36-39
• A visual map of Gladys’s first journey, this can also help with the map in the free notebooking pages.  
• Here is an easier version of Gladys’s story for younger children who might be following along (while quite powerful, the book does cover a LOT of harsh topics, so a lighter book might be necessary.  

Chapter 2: Not Good Enough to Be a Missionary

• An intro to old English currency
• A look at a housekeeper in England
• Read a book about China, or any other places you feel God might be calling you or your children

Chapter 3: All Aboard

• Jeanie Lawson (Mrs. Lawson) and her husband Dugald, have a powerful missionary story of their own.  
• Spirit stoves are just stoves that use some kind of alcohol or a similar spirit. Here is an older kerosine stove to show as an example. 
• If you happen to have a camping stove, consider having a meal made over it
• Have some of the food Gladys packed for her journey: Canned meat and fish, baked beans, crackers, boiled eggs, tea

Chapter 4: It’s Missionary, Not Machinery

• A look at Siberia
• A look at hypothermia: Operation Ouch: It’s Too Cold
• Vladivostok

Chapter 5: The Knock on the Door

• How Russia became Communist
• Gladys Coloring Page

Chapter 6: The Road Ends Here

• K’ang Beds
• Noodle and vegetable soup
• Timeline, word search, and crossword

Chapter 7: Inn of Eight Happinesses

• Info and photos of the Inn of Eight Happinesses, and mules and muleteers

Chapter 8: Jesus on the Ark

• Come up with your own confusing Bible story combinations
• Scroll down on this page to find the “Free Extras section” for more Gladys-themed worksheets. 

Chapter 9: The Honorable Foot Inspector

• A video about foot binding (might wish to pre-watch)

Chapter 10: Ai-weh-deh

• Gladys Aylward worksheets and coloring pages (to go along with the movie scheduled at the end, but you can start working on them now)

Chapter 11: Vehicles that Flew Like Insects

• Millet Stew
• A glimpse into the life of David Davies
• The Yellow River

Chapter 12: All that You Are and All That You Do

• Eat Plums
• Photos and other info about Gladys (Scroll down to see more photos, there are a lot toward the bottom of the page) (You might wish to save the movie listed for later, I will put it after all the spoilers from the book have passed). 

Chapter 13: Read by Millions of People

• Gladys Aylward speaking in person circa 1950s

Chapter 14: A Price on Her Head

• Madame Chiang Kai Shek addresses the House of Representatives in Washington DC, U…HD Stock Footage(This is the same woman who started an orphanage to help “warphans”, that had accepted Gladys’s children)

Chapter 15: As Black as the Night

• Torchlighters: The Gladys Aylward Story movie, animated version

Chapter 16: Going Home

• Another movie of Gladys is The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (there is no meaning to the changed title as far as I know). This movie is a bit harsher than the animated one. 
• Another movie is Gladys Aylward – Small Woman with a Great God
• Gladys’s Gravesite 

Extras:

There is no sequel to this book, but many other wonderful missionary and other stories by the same authors, a handful of which are used in other Sonlight levels. 

Here is a book younger students might enjoy. Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman With a Big Dream

Gladys also partially wrote her own autobiography.