[Teachldsseminary] TEACH: Genesis 24-28

[K McDowell]

Could you please send that information to the LDS Village site so that we 
can all get access to it?  Thankyou so much for sharing
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. Long" <osucowboys at consolidated.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:33 AM
Subject: [Teachldsseminary] TEACH: Genesis 24-28


>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
>
>
>
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