February Master Class Awesome Field Trip!

We're taking a field trip to the capitol building during the legislative session!  Karianne Lisonbee, Syracuse City councilwoman, knows her way around down there. She will be our guide.  It will be great!  

Date and time TBA. 

February Apprentice Inspirements

February Theme:  

God is our King. The law of the gospel is our government. Our government was founded on Christian principles. 

Remember to memorize the scripture/quote to pass off today!

Read and mark your favorite parts of the following. Write your favorite quote(s) or idea(s). 

1) TJED for Teens, chapter 6.  

Write the answers to the questions in chapter 6. Make a copy (or write down) the daily questions and place them in a container. Start pulling out one each day, asking it to yourself and a parent, writing down the answers in a journal.  Ask your parent to help you make a daily habit of this until you finish the questions.  A good time for this daily habit might be dinnertime, family devotional, or personal scripture time. Set an alarm so you remember daily!  If you’d like to ask these questions to God in your prayers and listen and write down the answers, that’s even better!

2) The 5000 Year Leap. 

Choose two of these principles to read: 2, 8, 9, 22, 26. (Choose ones you haven’t read before.)  

3) Read “Terror, Triumph, and a Wedding Feast” by Elder Jeffrey R. Holland here.

And choose one or more of the following, being ready to share them in class: 

• Teach one or both of the principles you chose from The 5000 Year Leap. You can use a PowerPoint presentation (Gavin did an awesome job last month), simulation, skit, poem, report, or any way you like to teach the class. 
• Teach us the main ideas you got out of “Terror, Triumph, and a Wedding Feast,” as if nobody in the class had read it before.  What was inspiring or hopeful to you?  Did the speech change how you feel about living in the last days before Christ’s Second Coming? Use something physical to teach us – like an object lesson, a visual aid, a picture, a PowerPoint, group activity, or something else. 
• Write a paper about the principles you learned in either 5000 Year Leap, Elder Holland, or both. Include your thoughts of how these principles apply to you. • Choose your own inspirement that helps you ponder and apply what you learned. 

February Journeyman Inspirements

Read The Declaration of Independence here.  Mark your favorite parts. 

Watch “Agenda: Grinding America Down” here.  (91 minute video) 

Watch this with your parent(s) if possible.  While watching it, take notes of the main points of the movie.  

BONUS: If you’d like to, take a 12-question quiz about The Declaration of Independence here.  How did you do?

And choose one or more of the following: 

• Teach the class the differences between principles found in The Declaration and the goals of the Communist party.  You can use a PowerPoint presentation, a poem, a skit, a chart or list, whatever you’d like to teach us. 
• Teach the class ways you see Americans following principles in The Declaration, and ways you see Americans following goals from the Communist party, even if they don’t realize they are. Use whatever means you choose to teach us these. 
• Write a paper about the main things you learned from The Declaration and Agenda. Include your thoughts of ways these things apply to you and your life, now and in the future. • Choose your own inspirement that helps you ponder and apply what you learned. 

February Master Inspirements

Read: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 

Write your favorite quote(s) or idea(s). 

• Free Kindle edition here.
• Free PDF download here.
• Free audiobook  here.

And choose one or more of the following:

• What system did Benjamin Franklin create to consistently improve himself?  How can you apply this to yourself?  Picture your life five years into the future. What does your life look like if you apply Franklin’s system in your life?  Do something to get started with a system similar to his. 
• What made Ben Franklin such a good business man?  What made him such a good statesman?  How did Franklin’s constant effort to improve himself affect his ability to contribute to the world?  Teach the class your answers to these questions, and what you will do to apply these ideas in your life. 
• Choose your own inspirement that helps you ponder and apply what you learned.