Perfecting the Saints — One Lesson at a Time
Tomorrow is election day which is a holiday here in the Commonwealth, and so I’ve got a bit of a break tomorrow. Time to catch up on the blog. 2 Nephi 20-24 This morning a couple of kids had questions about BYU applications and Seminary endorsements. I showed them the form I filled out and told them how I do it. I explained that Seminary graduation is NOT a requirement…
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The title of this entry makes it sound like I’ve got a whole lot of catching up to do. Truthfully — nope. I caught a cold last Monday and by Tuesday I was wasted and had to cancel class, so I didn’t teach 2 Nephi 11,16. The next two days, my husband taught. My plan had been to teach a super short lesson and then show the Mountain of the…
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2 Nephi 5 To prepare for this lesson I taped a big sheet of bulletin board paper to the wall and drew this basic map: I will add to it throughout the year to help students keep track of where things are happening in relation to each other as the story progresses. I opened with a brief description of what is happening in the story to keep everyone on track….
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2 Nephi 3 I took this lesson straight from the manual again with a few alterations. I drew the little stickmen on the board with the scriptures and had 4 kids come up and write who each represented. Then I erased all the stickmen except the one for Joseph Smith, and I had assigned students come up and write the things they discovered about Joseph Smith using the following verses…
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This lesson was super, super easy. The manual had a group activity that worked out perfectly. I was like the others who reported back on the Facebook group — the activity went too long and bled into the following day’s lesson. I didn’t make a handout for this lesson because …. drum roll … the church already provided one! I rarely use the online lesson planner (I know — you’d…
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Wow. This was a difficult lesson. I read on the Facebook group that one teacher spent five days on 2 Nephi 2. I thought that was ridiculous, but after today, I can see why. I got a Facebook message on Friday from a student saying that she was bringing an investigator to class. This is the second investigator we have had come to class this year. I am not going…
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1 Nephi 21:16-22:31 I used the lesson manual a little bit for this lesson, and I can’t say it went super well. I had a list of verses to read aloud regarding the scattering and gathering of Israel, and we had a short discussion. I also had students summarize some of the terms from the previous lesson because we had so many students absent, including “furnace of affliction” and “graven…
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I am going to cover only the last three Seminary lessons in this post, because I’m a little short on time. I am going to GET MY HAIR DONE for the first time in months — what a relief. I’ve been so busy the past three months that I couldn’t spare the 3 hours to get there. I had an appointment last weekend, but I ended up pushing it back…
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Well, today’s lesson was not stellar. I don’t know why I keep doing this same lesson — it’s a flop nearly every time. I’m just expecting too much. These students just can not write a short script from a scripture text to save their lives. Three years I’ve been doing it, and it never seems to get any better. It’s always much better if we talk about the story and…
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I’m feeling better about Seminary this week as things have settled down. I’m also glad I held out on the manual — the last two lessons have been usable for me, and made planning a lot easier. Earlier in the week it was looking like the manual was going to be unusable. I’m glad I was wrong. 1 Nephi 7-8 To open this lesson I asked for three volunteers to…
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A group of Seminary teachers has created a Facebook group with the purpose of helping teachers share ideas and get help with problems in the classroom. Come on over and join us at the link below: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LDSSeminaryTeacher/ Just click the “join” link to become a part of the group.
I’ve slept better the past two nights than in the past 5 months. My aunt is home now with her 24 hour care, and the pressure I’ve been under is beginning to alleviate. I’m so grateful this all came down at the end of Seminary last year so that I could take care of the management of her home and renovation projects and other sundries when I wasn’t also saddled…
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