September Week 2 (due Sep 17)

Week 2:

CORE:

Do first (by the Thursday before class):

1. Read: Turn the Page Chapter 2. Practice “starting with a question” in all of your reading this week.

2.  Read: Putting on the Armor of God Chapters 4&5 and write down what you felt inspired to do after reading the chapter OR answer the following questions in your journal: Notice your self-talk this week. Write some of the things you find yourself saying to yourself. Are your words positive or negative? What did you learn from this experience?

3. Make a plan: to keep tracking your goal progress and working on your memorization

Do the rest of the study week:

1. Word Study: Read Your Four Minutes and write your favorite quotes in your word study

2. Listen and Read: What Makes it Great Chapter Introduction and to page 17.  Listen to the examples here as you read.

3. Read: Finish Mocassin Trail or Porter Rockwell

4. Research: your family history and see if you can find any stories in your family in the time of the Western Expansion (pioneers). Bring that story to share. If you can’t find a family story, research a person from that time period that you admire and bring a story.

5. Draw: Work from your writing skills book

6. Create: Create something to share about something that inspired you this week such as: a poem, paper, drawing, painting, timeline, video, song, blog post, speech, goodreads review, visual presentation, digital piece, letter, or another way to share the truth you learned.  Try a different way to share than what you tried last week. Remember, this can be a rough draft of what you take to Journeyman to refine and it may be the writing you are doing for Master class.

JOURNEYMAN:

1. Read: Aspire – Chapter 1 and write your thoughts in your journal

2. Read: this blog post about famous men and their journals. Write in your own journal a few ideas that can help you in keeping your own pocket journal.

3. Ponder: what your message is that you would like to share this year. What is important to you right now in your life? How could it be important to others? Write in your journal some ideas of things that inspire you. It could be anything: trees, chocolate chip cookies, Ingrid Michaelson, King Benjamin. When do you feel the spirit? Make a list and refer to it often. Be prepared to share some of your list with the group in Week 2.

4. Bring: a project from Core, Journeyman or Master for review and revision

MASTER:

Read: Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Chapter 25 “The Little Evangelist” – Keep working on your Character T-Chart

Continue: working on your Cultural Literacy Terms

Compare: As you fill in your Character T-Chart, compare Tom’s character to the monthly principle. Do you think Tom put God first in his life? What are the evidences of your conclusions? What were the consequences (positive or negative) in his life for putting God first? Write your thoughts about this and continue writing them as you continue to read the book. You may turn your thoughts about this into an essay or blogpost and refine it in Journeyman.

PRINCIPLES OF LIBERTY:

1. Do the Principles of Liberty Course; Week 2 in your student manual.  Bring your notes, thoughts, and answers to the questions with you to class. 

2. Continue: working on what you learned from Chapter 1 in Lead like Jesus

GREAT BOOKS:

1. Read: Pages 244-262 of Volume 6 The Power Within Us.  Bring your notes and a discussion question.