[Teachldsseminary] TEACH:Lamentations

[Annie Edwards]

For those of you that haven't taught Lamentations yet, we had a really good 
lesson this week.  We talked about what "lamentations" means and tried to 
get into a discussion about what Jeremiah was lamenting.

I talked about how Jeremiah and other prophets bear the weight of the sins 
of their people.

THEN - I had gone through the internet and looked for issues of our day, and 
printed them out.  I gave one to each student and asked them to take a few 
minutes to read their article and then be prepared to present it to our 
class (I only have 7 kids.)
The issues covered were:
An article about how the rampant divorce rate affects kids
An article about transgender families and a doctor who has found a way to 
delay puberty so that kids can decide which sex they would like to be.
An article about Day of Silence being celebrated on high school campuses 
nationwide to support gays and lesbians
An article about danger in schools from guns, assaults, and unsanitary 
conditions
An article about how people who make violent movies, TV shows and video 
games are targeting our kids and affecting their personalities
An article about how depression and suicide are up dramatically amongst 
sexually active teens
An article about a pregnant man

To further emphasize how this affects a prophet, we read from Jacob 1:19 and 
Jacob 2:2-3


To finish, I showed two clips that I had downloaded from LDS.org to my 
computer lap-top.  One was President Monson's conference talk last year 
called Tabernacle Memories , where he was his typical upbeat and happy self. 
http://lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,23-1-690,00.html
The second one was President Monson's closing talk from this last conference 
called "Abundantly Blessed."
http://lds.org/conference/sessions/display/0,5239,23-1-851,00.html

His whole demeanor was COMPLETELY different.  My kids noticed how his face 
was even different.  I said "do you see how the sins of this world have 
weighed this great man down?"  You can see that he completely wears the 
mantle of the prophet when you compare these two clips.

I bore my testimony about prophets and President Monson.  I asked that we 
all commit to not add to President Monson's burden, but that we live our 
lives in the Lord's way, not the world's way.

It was a very powerful lesson and one of those times where they were 
completely engaged and you could see on their faces that they were 
considering something in a way they hadn't done before.

Annie Edwards
Converse, TX




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>I didn't see any ideas. Does someone have a lesson plan they can send to 
>the
> list? I would like to do the blues but I'm unsure how to do it.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:59 AM, Mary Jane Saylor <gr7fun at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I just wanted to thank everyone for their ideas on Lamentations.  We used
>> the blues and wrote poems this morning.  They really seemed to enjoy the
>> activity.  (Thanks for the song suggestion, I had no idea of good blues
>> songs to use)  We also played the Prophet and Apostle song from 
>> about.com,
>> they really got a kick out of it and had me play it again at the end of
>> class.
>> Have a great day.
>> Mary Jane EMS 25 great young people
>>  _______________________________________________
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