Click on the image to get the glue-in and show your class how the words are repeated in the verses. Also show how the apex points to verses 17-18 and what this teaches.
As the glue-in explains, a chiasma is an ancient Hebrew literary form in which the author paralleles the ideas and words he used previously in reverse order. It was considered an artistic form of writing in the Bible. This literary form was not discoverd in ancient records until the late 1920s (after the day of Joseph Smith) and is thus a proof of the Book of Mormon.
Click on the image to get the glue-in and show your class how the words are repeated in the verses. Also show how the apex points to verses 17-18 and what this teaches.
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Here are a couple of worksheets I have used to teach Alma 5. They work well because they direct the students through almost the whole chapter. As usual, click on the picture to get the worksheets. A great way I like to start Alma 5 is by going to Alma 4:19. I bring a bottle of Italian dressing to class (not shaken up) and ask them what the ingredients are (Oil, vinegar, and spices). Then I ask it they would put it on their salad as it is (not shaken and separated). Then I ask questions like, “What does the dressing have to do with Alma 4:19? What has to happen for the dressing to be good? How are people like that? What shakes or stirs people up to be good?” The point is that Alma’s people had settled down into their comfortable, easy places with the Gospel. Alma 5 was to wake them up and “stir” them up spiritually. Alma 5 will do the same with us. This is something I gave out the Old Testament year to help students memorize the Ten Commandments and what order they are in. By the end you could be able to mention a commandment “Honor Father and Mother” and they could be able to say which one it is, “That’s the 5th commandment”. Here is a short explanation 1. Looks like when someone is saying “We’re #1”. But who is really #1? (God). Thus “Thou shalt have no other God’s before me.” 2. Looks like a snake. “Thou shalt not make… any graven image” Like making a serpent and worshiping it. 3. A 3 on its side bends in the middle just like the top lip. This is the commandment we break with our lips –“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord…in vain”. 4. A four upside-down looks like a chair could be in church. Keep the Sabbath day holy. 5. The number 5 is square at the top part (fathers are square), and round at the bottom (mothers are more shapely). “Honor thy father and thy mother”. 6. The number 6 on its side almost looks like a gun. “Thou shalt not kill.” 7. The number 7 on its side could look like a bed frame. “Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. When you steal they put you in handcuffs and handcuffs put together almost look like the number 8. “Thou shalt not steal.” 9. The 9 is made to look like a bear. “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” 10. If you bend the 1 in 10, it almost looks like a CO. “Thou shalt not COvet…” Make sure you quiz them often by throwing out a number and they give the commandment, or vice versa. One of the toughest parts of Scripture Mastery is helping students learn the reference from the key words. A teacher suggested that I put together the new mnemonics on a one page handout like I’ve done with past years. This can help you go over a group of them on a given day. I suggest on one day of the week, you go over 8 or 12 of them, let them practice with each other, and then focus on those when doing activities and games with scripture mastery. This way, in a few weeks, you would have gone over and practiced all of the 25 Scripture Mastery mnemonics. There are instructions on the handout of how to use mnemonics effectively. Under the “Scripture Mastery” tab at the top of the website, you will see “Book of Mormon Scripture Mastery” where you will see other uses with the mnemonics and learning the scripture masteries. You can have an extra amount of fun with this if you are able to use a gym or big room without chairs and stuff in it. With the gym you can have your students act out large portions of Jacob 5. You will need some of the follow (modify depending on how many students you have): · A loud reader · 6 students to be trees (1 Original, 1, Gentile tree, 4 scattered trees) · 12 Small branches (they can easily hold one on a hand) · Servants to prune, graft, gather, etc. Then you will have the one read the verses and the students act out the parts. I think it will be easiest if you have the CHART printed out in front of you so you can have the reader read the right verses, and you see the whole picture. Click on the graphic for that chart. Before class, act it out several times in your head with the chart in hand so that you don’t get confused. When fruit is good, have them hold the branches pointing up, and when the fruit is bad, have the branches pointing down. You can also label areas where you want trees (students) to stand like: · Land of Israel · Land of the Gentiles · Poor Ground · Poorest Ground · Good Ground The chart will really help with all of this. Here is also a glue-in to help. CLICK HERE Notice this is a double sided glue-in so you can print and then have your ward copy machine make it double sided. Great information on both sides. Make sure at one point you have them cover the right side and guess what each of the elements represent; or do this on the board before hand. It is a good review activity the second day. Don’t forget to use the video also. Make sure they come away with the big principles mentioned in the manual. As teachers, we are to help our students learn to identify doctrines and principles in the scriptures. This can be difficult because most of our students haven’t really learned what doctrines and principle are. This Jacob 1&2 worksheet helps them in the initial step of seeing what well written statements of doctrine and principle look like. It is also a spring board to teach those powerful doctrines and principle to your class. Click on the picture to get the worksheet. After they have gone through the worksheet with their partner, have different groups read the verses and ask the class what they picked and why. Ask why that is an important doctrine or principle to know for life. Later you will want to help your class learn to construct their own statements of principle. The following link is a great lesson idea of how to do that and it can be used with most any block of scripture. http://nwseminaryshare.weebly.com/1/post/2013/04/scripture-study-skills-lesson-3-fishing-for-principles.html By the way, I’ve had a tragic accident with the website. I was making changes with my other website and I accidently deleted my blog page on this website. So in essence, all my past blog posts are gone. LUCKILY, I have archived all the ideas I’ve shared under then tabs at the top of the page: Scripture Mastery, BOM Teaching Ideas, and Seminary Resources. So it isn’t as bad as it could have been. Still, it is quite frustrating. Sorry for the inconvenience if any. |
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