November Memorization

This month, we have two different poems: one for the guys to memorize, and one for the gals. (after you've memorized yours, feel free to memorize the other one if you want :))

(Young Men) IF BY RUDYARD KIPLING
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
 
(Young Women) Mother's Prayer
Oh give me patience when wee hands
Tug at me with their small demands.
And give me gentle and smiling eyes.
Keep my lips from hasty replies. And let not weariness, confusion or noise
Obscure my vision of life's fleeting joys.
So when, in years to come my house is still
No bitter memories its rooms may fill.


(All) 1 Corinthians 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

November Week 1: Leadership Academy

WEEK 1: Leadership Academy

A look at STEWARDSHIP and how it relates to our ability to work well and maintain our property, both as individuals and as a society.

*Each week, you need to meet with your parents or a mentor and review the material for the week so you can individually tailor it to your studies: powerful and necessary :).

"Starting Point":
1. Review our Poem and Scripture for the month
2. Do a word study on "stewardship"--make sure to include scriptures!
3. Print off and read "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" and highlight any sections that refer to stewardships.
4. Look through "Our Constitution Rocks" and pick a section that you feel defends your right to property or outlines the stewardship of a particular groups of people or branch of government.  Come prepared to share with us what you learned.

5. Review the  "Sharpen the Saw" chapter in "7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens" and come prepared to share a favorite part or quote.

"Bunny Trails":
Find something from what you read this week that you feel inspired to study further. Feel free to select from the following or pick your own--
-Go on a date with your parents and ask them what they feel the roles of men and women are, both in society and in your family.
-From your word study of "stewardship," find interesting words that stick out to you and do word studies on those as well.  Or, you can do a word study on "work" or "property" and see if you can make any connections between "stewardship," "work" or "property."
-Do a more in-depth study of a section of your choice of "Our Constitution Rocks." Come up with a fun way to teach it and then teach us or a group of other kids what you learned.
-Create a family home evening lesson tying in what you learned about stewardship this week.
-Watch, read or listen to the talk from the recent conference: "Finding lasting peace and building eternal families" by Elder Perry.  Compare it to "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" and highlight favorite quotes or sections that connect.
-Make a creative display of the scripture and poem for the month to put on your wall or in your tome to help you memorize it.

"Project Time"
Start a project this week that you feel inspired to as you start your study of Stewardship and how it relates to you, your work, and your property.  What stewardship do you have in your life: calling at church, responsibilities in Vanguard, work in the home or somewhere else?  Consider prayerfully how you can improve and show better stewardship in one or more areas.  It can be a week-project or a month-project.  Report to us in class how it is going.

November Week 2: Geo-Conquest

WEEK 2: Geo-Conquest

Look at examples of Stewardship and how living it helps preserve our property  in the lives of people in history & around the world--and then learn from them!

 

*Each week, you need to meet with your parents or a mentor and review the material for the week so you can individually tailor it to your studies: powerful and necessary :).

 "Starting Point"
1. Review the scripture and the poem for the month.

2. Read chapter 5 on Leadership" in Be The Change  and bring your favorite quotes or ideas to share.

3. This month we are focusing on North America, the land of our personal heritage!  Find a story from the time of the Revolutionary War or from your family history where people showed good stewardship or bad and bring it to share.

4. It is important for us to improve our knowledge of geography to increase our understanding of events and cultures we hear about around the world. However, we are all at different levels of understanding of the world around us. For our map study for this month, I want you to take a section or category of North America (you can also include Central America) and make a map of it, labeling 20 places or features that you didn't know before.  Here are some ideas!
--draw a picture of the state of Utah and label counties and landmarks you didn't know about before
--get a blank map of Canada and label 20 places on it you didn't know before: provinces, major cities, rivers, etc.
--identify 20 major rivers or mountain ranges of North America that you didn't know their location before on a blank map of North America
--label 20 different places (cities, states or physical features) of Mexico on a blank map
Bring it to class to share!

5. Come prepared to help put on our "Family Heritage Festival," starring your families! Please do both of the following:
-Bring one food item that is a family tradition: main dish, snack, etc.
-Bring an activity or presentation on a personal family tradition you have: games, holiday traditions, etc.  Try to make this more of a presentation, rather than a simple retelling if you can.  For instance, we celebrate St. Lucia's Day at our house, so one of my kids could come in dressed up as St. Lucia and what she brings, reinacting how we do it as a family with the class, and the distributing the goody that goes with it in the same fashion.  

Bunny Trails
We are incorporating the "Bunny Trails" part with the maps, family history story  and the Family Heritage Festival, as you seek to find your own needs and interests to satisfy those three requirements...have fun!

Project Time!
Continue your project from last week or take on a new project that applies the principles you are learning about stewardship to your life and your personal areas of property.  Remember our discussion last week!  Property is not always something you can touch, but can be ideas or relationships.  Come prepared to share!

November Week 3: Eureka!

WEEK 3: Eureka! 

Seek and ask for explosions of light and truth  as we penetrate deception in order to help us maintain the Title of Liberty
 

*Each week, you need to meet with your parents or a mentor and review the material for the week so you can individually tailor it to your studies: powerful and necessary :).

"Starting Point": Do all the following--
1. Read Ch.  in "Lead Like Jesus." Record or share your thoughts or favorite quotes.
2. Read "Puss in Boots" in its more original form here: http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/perrault04.html  (so we all read the same version) and look for true and untrue messages in that fairy tale.

3. Scientific Principle for this month: Classification. Scientists try to look at the world and make sense of it. One way they do this is to try and come up with systems of classifying things. Scientists believe that there are over 10 million different kinds of lifeforms, or species, on Earth. Imagine trying to study and understand the lives, patterns, behaviors and relationships of so many different kinds of organisms! In order to make their job easier, scientists classify living things into groups based on how they are the same and how they are different.

We find evidence of "classifying" things in the scriptures as well: Adam did so, when he started naming the animals. Moses did it while organizing the 12 tribes after leaving Egypt. 
-Quickly skim through the information at this kid's website: http://www.kidsbiology.com/biology_basics/classification/classification1.php where they compare the classification of the animal kingdom to someone separating out their Halloween candy.
-Now, identify a system of classifying that you would like to learn more about (the calendar, time, periodic table and the elements, Dewey decimal system, relationship of different languages, plants, animals, political systems, rankings of teams in the NFL) study it and then come and teach us what you found!


"Bunny Trails":
Select from the following or pick your own to take your studies further.  You can explore a couple things in minor depth or one in more depth. Come prepared to teach us more about what you learned :)!
--Take the chapter from Lead Like Jesus, make connections, find quotes, articles and videos that go with it, and present it to us or as a family home evening or devotional in your home.  Report to your parent or us how it went.  You can also write a paper or do a powerpoint/prezi on your findings.


--Take the principles you learned about classification and apply it in your life:
-organize the books on the shelves or your personal or your family's library (with your parent's permission, of course :)!);
-organize your drawers, closet and shoes according to some scheme of classification
-take an area of interest (beading, art, sports, historical ideas) and come up with a way that you could classify and organize that study into something that will not only help you organize what you already have but give you an easy place to categorize future material or information you may receive.
-look at your music and organize it into some different playlists based upon a classification scheme that supports your needs!
Come and share what you did and how you did it!

--Make a budget and discuss it with a parent about how you can better organize your finances.

--Draw your own version of the taxonomical chart from the kid's website or a biology book you have at home, using your own illustrations. 

--Come up with a song that helps someone learn a classification system

-- Take something you learned about this week and teach it to one or more younger children. Come and tell us what you did and how it went.

"Project Time"
Time to report back on the progress of your month long project, your weekly one, or your currently adapted one!  Look at your life: how can applying stewardship in some way improve your studies, your relationships with others, family, or God?  How can stewardship change your life?  Prayerfully find a way and apply it.  Inspire us by sharing with us what and how you are doing!

We will be going on a field trip for the last part, after lunch, so please be prepared for that!

November Week 4: Imaginative Arts

WEEK 4: Imaginative Arts 

The week when we get to CREATE and EXPRESS OURSELVES using the arts of the beautiful lens, making what we learned a part of our lives forever….

*Each week, you need to meet with your parents or a mentor and review the material for the week so you can individually tailor it to your studies: powerful and necessary :).

MONTHLY FOCUS:  

 A look at Stewardship in our Work through the Imaginative Arts Lens

"Starting Point":
1. Come ready to pass off our poem and scripture for the month!

2. BOYS: read "Little Britches"; GIRLS: read "Lantern in her Hand" (or "Little Women" or "Through still Waters").  Try to record your thoughts or favorite quotes as you read by sharing them with others or writing them down.

3.

4. Read Chapter 3 in "Aspire" and record your thoughts in your journal.

"Bunny Trails":
Select from the following or pick your own--



"Project Time"
Get ready to present what you have done this month for your project with us!  It can be either the more recent one(s) you haven't shared yet or a main one that you have been working on all month.