Topic: Da Vinci (1452-1519) and Botticelli (1444-1510)
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
Week A18--history
Memory Date: Noah and the Flood: about 2344 BC
Methuselah lived even longer than Adam, 969 years! He was at the meeting Adam held in Adam-ondi-Ahman, and he was alive when the City of Zion was taken off the earth. He was 187 when one of his sons, Lamech, was born. And he was about 369 when his grandson, Lamech's son, Noah, was born.
Methuselah would have been able to tell Lamech and Noah about Adam's teachings. He would have been able to teach them the words of his father Enoch.
Noah grew up to be a very righteous man, but the rest of the people on earth were becoming so wicked that God told Noah to tell them to repent or they would be destroyed. There were many people, there were many cities, and there were kings and rulers over different parts of the people. They spent a lot of time warring with each other and doing wicked things.
The people would not listen to Noah's preaching. God told Noah to make a large ship, called an ark. Noah's sons Japheth, Shem, and Ham helped. God told them exactly how to make it (for some of the directions, see Genesis 6: 14-16).
When the ark was finished, they had to bring animals of every kind onto the ark. They brought seven of every animal that is good to eat and of all birds; they brought two of every kind that is not good to eat (see Genesis 7:2-3).
Noah and his wife and Japheth, Shem and Ham and their wives went into the ark. Noah was 600 years old at this time. Soon it began to rain, and rain, and rain. It rained for forty days and forty nights. The entire earth was covered with water. The earth was cleaned of all the wicked people, and it was baptized by water like we are (see footnote).
The ark floated for about 150 days, and then the water slowly went down. The ark got caught on the top of a mountain called Ararat, which is believed to be in today's Turkey.
Read Genesis 8:4-22.
As a sign of His promise to never flood the entire earth again, God put a rainbow in the sky (Genesis 9:13).
Noah lived 350 more years, and he watched the population grow from eight people to a small civilization as his sons and their wives had children and grandchildren.
For info. on the flood covering the entire earth, not just parts, see "The Flood and the Tower of Babel" By Donald W. Parry in Jan 1998 Ensign. This article can be accessed at www.lds.org in the gospel library.
This quote is from that article by Brother Parry (see the section "Principles and Lessons for Our Time"):
Latter-day prophets teach that the Flood or the total immersion of the earth in water represents the earth’s required baptism. Elder John A. Widtsoe of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained: “Latter-day Saints look upon the earth as a living organism, one which is gloriously filling ‘the measure of its creation.’ They look upon the flood as a baptism of the earth, symbolizing a cleansing of the impurities of the past, and the beginning of a new life. This has been repeatedly taught by the leaders of the Church. The deluge was an immersion of the earth in water.” He writes that the removal of earth’s wicked inhabitants in the Flood represents that which occurs in our own baptism for the remission of sins.
Activities:
Make a paper ark:
http://www.dltk-bible.com/msimpleark.html
Make an ocean in a bottle (add something plastic to be the ark): http://www.activitiesforkids.com/recipe/ocean.htm
Go to a football field and measure out the dimensions of the ark, use 18 inches as a standard for a cubit. A cubit started out meaning from a man's elbow to the tip of his longest finger. (18 inches times number of cubits divided by 12 equals how many feet)
Methuselah lived even longer than Adam, 969 years! He was at the meeting Adam held in Adam-ondi-Ahman, and he was alive when the City of Zion was taken off the earth. He was 187 when one of his sons, Lamech, was born. And he was about 369 when his grandson, Lamech's son, Noah, was born.
Methuselah would have been able to tell Lamech and Noah about Adam's teachings. He would have been able to teach them the words of his father Enoch.
Noah grew up to be a very righteous man, but the rest of the people on earth were becoming so wicked that God told Noah to tell them to repent or they would be destroyed. There were many people, there were many cities, and there were kings and rulers over different parts of the people. They spent a lot of time warring with each other and doing wicked things.
The people would not listen to Noah's preaching. God told Noah to make a large ship, called an ark. Noah's sons Japheth, Shem, and Ham helped. God told them exactly how to make it (for some of the directions, see Genesis 6: 14-16).
When the ark was finished, they had to bring animals of every kind onto the ark. They brought seven of every animal that is good to eat and of all birds; they brought two of every kind that is not good to eat (see Genesis 7:2-3).
Noah and his wife and Japheth, Shem and Ham and their wives went into the ark. Noah was 600 years old at this time. Soon it began to rain, and rain, and rain. It rained for forty days and forty nights. The entire earth was covered with water. The earth was cleaned of all the wicked people, and it was baptized by water like we are (see footnote).
The ark floated for about 150 days, and then the water slowly went down. The ark got caught on the top of a mountain called Ararat, which is believed to be in today's Turkey.
Read Genesis 8:4-22.
As a sign of His promise to never flood the entire earth again, God put a rainbow in the sky (Genesis 9:13).
Noah lived 350 more years, and he watched the population grow from eight people to a small civilization as his sons and their wives had children and grandchildren.
For info. on the flood covering the entire earth, not just parts, see "The Flood and the Tower of Babel" By Donald W. Parry in Jan 1998 Ensign. This article can be accessed at www.lds.org in the gospel library.
This quote is from that article by Brother Parry (see the section "Principles and Lessons for Our Time"):
Latter-day prophets teach that the Flood or the total immersion of the earth in water represents the earth’s required baptism. Elder John A. Widtsoe of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles explained: “Latter-day Saints look upon the earth as a living organism, one which is gloriously filling ‘the measure of its creation.’ They look upon the flood as a baptism of the earth, symbolizing a cleansing of the impurities of the past, and the beginning of a new life. This has been repeatedly taught by the leaders of the Church. The deluge was an immersion of the earth in water.” He writes that the removal of earth’s wicked inhabitants in the Flood represents that which occurs in our own baptism for the remission of sins.
Activities:
Make a paper ark:
http://www.dltk-bible.com/msimpleark.html
Make an ocean in a bottle (add something plastic to be the ark): http://www.activitiesforkids.com/recipe/ocean.htm
Go to a football field and measure out the dimensions of the ark, use 18 inches as a standard for a cubit. A cubit started out meaning from a man's elbow to the tip of his longest finger. (18 inches times number of cubits divided by 12 equals how many feet)
Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Week A15--Cultural Arts
Shakespeare
Shakespeare wrote plays, not books, so the best way to experience his art is by watching it. Rent a few of his plays this week. It is a good idea to preview these (Romeo and Juliet often contains nudity).
Suggestions:
Hamlet starring Mel Gibson
Taming of the Shrew starring Elizabeth Taylor
Shakespeare wrote plays, not books, so the best way to experience his art is by watching it. Rent a few of his plays this week. It is a good idea to preview these (Romeo and Juliet often contains nudity).
Suggestions:
Hamlet starring Mel Gibson
Taming of the Shrew starring Elizabeth Taylor
Monday, April 6, 2009
Week A14--history
MEMORY DATE: 2948 BC Enoch’s City is taken (in this lesson you will also memorize the order of the first ten patriarchs)
Concept: Enoch was the founder of the City of Zion, this city was translated. When the City was taken off the earth, Methuselah was left behind.
TIMELINE: Add the names and dates of these patriarchs:
Enos 3765 BC, lifeline to 2860 BC
Cainan 3675 BC, lifeline to 2765 BC
Mahalaleel 3605 BC, lifeline to 2710 BC
Jared 3540 BC, lifeline to 2578 BC
Enoch 3378 BC, lifeline to 2948 BC (this is when his city was taken up, he didn’t die)
Methuselah 3313 BC, lifeline to 2344
Remember Adam's righteous son Seth, who looked just like Adam?Well, Seth had a son named Enos, who had a son named Cainan, who had a son named Mahalaleel, who had a son named Jared, who had a very special son named Enoch. And Enoch had a son named Methuselah.
All of these men were at that last meeting that Adam held before he died. So all of them were taught not only from their fathers, but also from Adam, who had been taught by God himself. All of these men had the priesthood.Enoch was very, very righteous. Adam gave him the priesthood when he was 25, which probably seemed very young back when they lived so long (D&C 107:48). The Lord came and talked to Enoch face to face. He taught Enoch many things, and then told Enoch to preach to the people of the earth and tell them to repent.
There were a lot of people on the earth by this time, and many of them were not being good. Many people listened to Enoch, repented, and were good. Enoch led them, and they made a righteous city to live in. The people in the city were all good and loving. They took care of each other and had no poor people.The unrighteous people did not like the good people. They came to fight Enoch's people. God gave Enoch power, and Enoch commanded mountains to move, rivers to change the way they were flowing, and a new land to come up out of the sea. The wicked people were very afraid. Instead of attacking, they ran.The wicked people began to fight each other and had many awful wars, but they would not fight Enoch's righteous city, which was named the City of Zion.
God told Enoch that the people of the earth were becoming so wicked that He was going to destroy them with a flood. Only one man, Enoch's great-grandson, and that man's wife, three sons, and their wives, would survive.When Enoch's son Methuselah heard about this, he knew that Noah would be his grandson. "All the people on the earth after the flood will come from me!" he thought. He was prideful about it.The people in Enoch's city, Zion, were still very, very righteous. When the city was 365 years old (Enoch himself was 430) God took Enoch and the whole city of Zion off of the earth to a righteous place. But Methuselah was left behind.We know that in these last days, a new City of Zion will be built in Missouri, and the people from the old Zion will join us here on earth once more. It will be a very happy reunion.
ACTIVITIES: Make a poster showing the line from Adam and Eve to Methuselah. Older children can use the ages of the men as given in the Pearl of Great Price to tell how old Adam was as each generation was born.
SONG w/ music notes (\/A is the A below middle C, /\ A is the A above, all other notes are middle C and above)
The Ancient Ten
Adam /\ A G
Seth, Enos E D E
Cainan /\ A G
Mahalaleel E D DE
Jared /\ A G
And Enoch E D E
And Methuselah /\ A G E D E
Then Lamech \/ A CC
And Noah C D D
These are the ancient ten, C CC C C D
And the whole world ought to get along E E /\ A G E D E D \/A
For we all descend from them. \/A C E D C \/A C
Describe how you would imagine the City of Zion. Describe the people and the way they would act.
Concept: Enoch was the founder of the City of Zion, this city was translated. When the City was taken off the earth, Methuselah was left behind.
TIMELINE: Add the names and dates of these patriarchs:
Enos 3765 BC, lifeline to 2860 BC
Cainan 3675 BC, lifeline to 2765 BC
Mahalaleel 3605 BC, lifeline to 2710 BC
Jared 3540 BC, lifeline to 2578 BC
Enoch 3378 BC, lifeline to 2948 BC (this is when his city was taken up, he didn’t die)
Methuselah 3313 BC, lifeline to 2344
Remember Adam's righteous son Seth, who looked just like Adam?Well, Seth had a son named Enos, who had a son named Cainan, who had a son named Mahalaleel, who had a son named Jared, who had a very special son named Enoch. And Enoch had a son named Methuselah.
All of these men were at that last meeting that Adam held before he died. So all of them were taught not only from their fathers, but also from Adam, who had been taught by God himself. All of these men had the priesthood.Enoch was very, very righteous. Adam gave him the priesthood when he was 25, which probably seemed very young back when they lived so long (D&C 107:48). The Lord came and talked to Enoch face to face. He taught Enoch many things, and then told Enoch to preach to the people of the earth and tell them to repent.
There were a lot of people on the earth by this time, and many of them were not being good. Many people listened to Enoch, repented, and were good. Enoch led them, and they made a righteous city to live in. The people in the city were all good and loving. They took care of each other and had no poor people.The unrighteous people did not like the good people. They came to fight Enoch's people. God gave Enoch power, and Enoch commanded mountains to move, rivers to change the way they were flowing, and a new land to come up out of the sea. The wicked people were very afraid. Instead of attacking, they ran.The wicked people began to fight each other and had many awful wars, but they would not fight Enoch's righteous city, which was named the City of Zion.
God told Enoch that the people of the earth were becoming so wicked that He was going to destroy them with a flood. Only one man, Enoch's great-grandson, and that man's wife, three sons, and their wives, would survive.When Enoch's son Methuselah heard about this, he knew that Noah would be his grandson. "All the people on the earth after the flood will come from me!" he thought. He was prideful about it.The people in Enoch's city, Zion, were still very, very righteous. When the city was 365 years old (Enoch himself was 430) God took Enoch and the whole city of Zion off of the earth to a righteous place. But Methuselah was left behind.We know that in these last days, a new City of Zion will be built in Missouri, and the people from the old Zion will join us here on earth once more. It will be a very happy reunion.
ACTIVITIES: Make a poster showing the line from Adam and Eve to Methuselah. Older children can use the ages of the men as given in the Pearl of Great Price to tell how old Adam was as each generation was born.
SONG w/ music notes (\/A is the A below middle C, /\ A is the A above, all other notes are middle C and above)
The Ancient Ten
Adam /\ A G
Seth, Enos E D E
Cainan /\ A G
Mahalaleel E D DE
Jared /\ A G
And Enoch E D E
And Methuselah /\ A G E D E
Then Lamech \/ A CC
And Noah C D D
These are the ancient ten, C CC C C D
And the whole world ought to get along E E /\ A G E D E D \/A
For we all descend from them. \/A C E D C \/A C
Describe how you would imagine the City of Zion. Describe the people and the way they would act.
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