“And the turtles, of course …all the turtles are free as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.”
1. Meaningful and appropriate Touch
2. Spoken Word
3. Spoken word with great value added
4. Spoken word with great value added and a special future is pictured
5. The touch and the spoken words backed up with a commitment to see the blessing carried out!
ALL MAKE-UP WORK MUST BE IN ON FRIDAY — 5/30/08.
All sermons and publications are due this FRIDAY - 5/30/08!! Note: If you did a separate publication for English and your sermon — you need only run your separate publication through the Writer’s Workshop.
5/6 Etymology make-up quiz - Write out 10 etymology root words. Write ten complete sentences and make sure you underline the root word in the sentence.
7/8 Etymology make-up quiz - Write out 15 etymology root words. Write 15 complete sentences and make sure you underline the root word in the sentence.
All Reading - Charla’s Children, New Testament, Reading logs and Roll-over Due 6/2/08.
For Charla’s Children write down that you read the book or the last page you read to.
For the New Testament write down that you read the entire NT or the last book and chapter you read to.
Last reading log (5/26-6/1) is due on 6/2/08(REMEMBER no journals - BUT if you need to do make up journals - Do journal, and make note on the journal that it is a make-up). I will use any roll over time as make-up for missing logs or logs that are short on minutes. Please circle both your reading time up to date and your roll over time up to date on this last log! I will use those times to determine the Reading Winners and for making up your missing logs or minutes.
Book Board People (And you should know who you are) - Your book boards are due Monday, 6/2/08.
Dear Parents and students,
Some of you have been asking how you can make-up journals. I am giving the students a bit of grace, but the following will make up for a missed journal:
1. Read at least 20 minutes from a book, magazine or etc.
2. Enter an extensive journal entry about this 20 minute reading, by which I mean, several observations (including several literary devices), a great presentation (meaning no misspelled words and correct format),
a good application, and finally the journal entry should look like you have put some major effort into it.
3. You will not get the full 35/35 credit, but if you follow the above, you will get most of the credit.
7/8th graders need to do two things with their sermons for class discussion that could be useful for their sermons in chapel, but I’m not making it mandatory for their sermons.
ONE: They need to summarize the background information of their book - Author, date, reason it was written, theme, main characters, setting, etc.
TWO: Students need to identify a key word or words in the passage they are preaching and do an in-depth word study. They need to find the Greek meaning and as much background info on the word that they can gather.
7/8th graders are going to have the opportunity to share their hopes, prayer needs, Bible verses and serving experiences thus far to the lower grades next week.
In preparation for that they are going to do a little research at (wwwFFHM.org) and review the book Charla’s Children. The students will:
One: Share about where they are going in Mexico
Two: About the orphanage, Foundation For His Ministry — They can use excerpts from Charla’s Children
Three: What they had to do to prepare for this mission: Serving opportunities, Prayer and support letters, experiencing food, taking 3 minute showers, etc.
Four: Prayer needs and concerns — the food they will eat, the people they will meet, that they would bring God glory by doing everything without arguing or complaining.
Step One: Pray and pray and pray some more.
Step Two: Find the main idea of your passage.
You will need to do the observation and interpretation steps of Bible Study to find the idea. Here are some questions to ask to help you: Who is doing the main action(or who is the? What action is being done? Why is this happening? What is causing this action to be done? When should this happen? How can this happen? Where did this happen (what culture, city, circumstance)?
If your passage is a narrative, that is a story, you can also use the SWBS - (Someone Wants But So) formula to find the main idea of the passage.
Step Three: Now you are going to persuade your audience to do something.
This is the application stage. Who do you want to do this? Why do you want them to do this? When do you want them to do this and how long and by what time? Where do you want them to do this? Whom do you want them to do this to? How do you want them to do this?
Step Four: Conclude with a challenge
You want your audience to leave with a purpose, with something they can do!!
7/8th Bible: Our 3rd quarter test is on Wed, March 19. This test will cover the entire New Testament Walk-Thru, our memory verses, and our unit on How we got the Bible.
5/8th English: Mission story publication is due on the March 19. Teacher edit is due Friday, March 14.
5/8th Literature: Reading Log 3/10-3/19 is your last log for the third quarter. I extended the log for three extra days for those who need to catch up on their reading. I also am suspending the reading journal for this week only. I am not requiring reading over spring break, but I will give out logs for over the break to anyone who wants to get a head start on their reading for 4th quarter. These logs need to be signed by your parents and will count for roll-over for 4th quarter (no journals required).
Book boards are due 3/19 for those doing the modified journals.
5/8 Etymology: We will continue reviewing words we have learned.
7/8 Bible: Take your Mission Story Biblical passage and make at least five interpretations.
7/8 Etymology: God’s World News Quiz over the Abortion article, Professor Wordbrain and Defineline will be on Friday.
5/8 Literature: ALL DAY reading on Thursday!
7/8 Bible: Quiz over pledge and 2 Cor. 10:4-5; Observations and Interpretation questions.
5/8 Reading Journal: Journals with words spelled incorrectly will not be accepted. If a journal is turned in a second time with three or more words spelled wrong it will receive a zero.
The same rule will apply to complete sentences, capitalization and end marks.
