[Teachldsseminary] TEACH: Genesis 24-28

[Mark & Carolyn Jefferson]

Please share all of your cards!!!!
Carolyn
On Monday, October 8, 2007, at 09:33  AM, C. Long wrote:

> I teach home study seminary once a week for 50 minutes and it has been  
> like
> pulling teeth this year for class participation.  After discussing  
> this with
> my mom (a veteran seminary teacher) she suggested we needed to play a
> game...since we meet for so short a time I didn't want to "waste" a  
> day with
> just a game, so I turned the lesson on Covenant Marriage from Gen.  
> 24-28
> into a game.
>
> Here's the brief explanation...
>
> I read through and found where the players (Jacob, Esau, Rebekah,  
> Isaac,
> servant of Abraham, etc) made either good or bad decisions in regards  
> to
> Covenant Marriage.
>
> I then found a generic game board online, made cards out of the  
> scriptures I
> found, for example - Genesis 28:2 - would be on the card.  My master  
> sheet
> (I made this up for me) states "Make the right choice of a potential  
> spouse"
> so I can remember what the scripture is about to jog my memory and the
> direction the board they can move is "Forward"
> Or Genesis 28:8-9	- on the card   "Married outside the covenant" on
> mast list and "Backward" is direction.
>
> The game board is hanging on the chalkboard.  The markers were David's  
> Star
> in different colors just printed out and taped to a magnet.
>
> The scripture cards are in one pile - upside-down - on the table.   
> There is
> a pile of "Go Forward" cards and "Go Backward" cards on either side of  
> the
> scripture cards.  I just had the teams choose a number btw 1 & 20 to  
> start.
> Then I flipped over the first scripture card and read the reference  
> out loud
> (these are in random order).   The students had to find the reference  
> and
> the first team to find it, read it, and explains whether it is moving  
> toward
> or away from a covenant marriage.  If it was positive they chose a "Go
> Forward" card and on the back I wrote random numbers to move forward.   
> If it
> was negative they chose a "Go Backward" card.  The team to correctly  
> get the
> negative and pick a "Go Backward" card gets to pick which team's  
> marker to
> move back.  I think they had fun, they were in their scriptures and  
> learned
> about covenant marriage - at least I hope this is what they got out of  
> it...
>
> I hope this makes sense.  It was fun to create and fun to play.  I  
> would
> happy to forward my materials on...
>
> Thanx,
> Codi Long
> Home Study Teacher
> Katy, TX
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> FREE teachldsseminary email list sponsored by Latter-dayVillage.com
> teachldsseminary at latter-dayvillage.com
> http://latter-dayvillage.com/mailman/listinfo/teachldsseminary_latter- 
> dayvillage.com
> or http://tinyurl.com/bemmh
>
> List archives at  
> http://latter-dayvillage.com/pipermail/teachldsseminary_latter- 
> dayvillage.com/
> or http://tinyurl.com/7dpqf
>
> List FAQ:
> http://latter-dayvillage.com/support/users/kb.php?category_id=3
>