[Teachldsseminary] Fw: TEACH:Lamentations

Fri Apr 25 11:22:29 MDT 2008

The articles I found were:
Day of Silence: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/education/2004266475_mtsi07e.html; http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5729109.html
Children of Divorce: http://www.aacap.org/cs/root/facts_for_families/children_and_divorce
Dr. finds way to delay puberty: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=62010
Transgender families on Oprah: http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200710/20071012/slide_20071012_284_110.jhtml
Report on school violence: http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/irts/violence-data/2006/reports/04-05-summary.htm
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.chapter/menuitem.5d91564f4fe4548cdeb3ffdb62108a0c/?chapterMgmtId=f8618aec2ecaff00VgnVCM1000003d01a8c0RCRD
Report on dangerous school conditions: http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=10895
Suicide and depression in sexually active teens: http://www.heritage.org/research/abstinence/cda0304.cfm
Drug and alcohol abuse: http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-facts-about-teen-drug-and-alcohol-abuse

If you have a bigger class, I would just suggest doing a search for issues of our day that I haven't covered here and print them out.

Hope that helps!

Annie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Debbie Ditto 
To: Annie Edwards 
Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 11:37 AM
Subject: RE: [Teachldsseminary] TEACH:Lamentations

Annie

great lesson - thanks for sharing.  I was hoping you could direct me to the articles that you used for your lesson.  I will need a few more as I have 15 students, if you could tell me what website you used to find your articles, that would really help me .........   thanks ......... d

> From: mykidsmom at satx.rr.com
> To: teachldsseminary at latter-dayvillage.com
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:49:11 -0500
> Subject: [Teachldsseminary] TEACH:Lamentations
> 
> 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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