In journeyman we had our poetry moment by Megan, it was awesome and so fun, check out her prezi on elements of a Haiku poem at the following link:
We also talked about Chopin a little and listened to some of his musical works. We talked about how we live in a visual culture vs. a written culture and how for our youth to be great leaders in the future in their families, communities, etc that they will need to be fluent in both of these cultures. As they listened to the different musical pieces we had them write what they saw visually in their minds and what they thought Chopin was feeling or thinking when he wrote them.
Here's the youtube video for that video that I thought was visually impressive. I just love the styling, besides the fact that it's a hard song to play!
We continued on our video production of The Pilgrim's Progress, it was great to see more of the youth coming better prepared and better understanding what they role meant. Thank you to those who chose early and spent extra time thinking about what their person represented and preparing yourselves to act it out. We loved Gavin's bonnet. ;) Please remember that next time if you are unprepared, we will ask you to step out while we finish this part. It's super hard to contribute if you haven't studied your word enough to really understand it and discuss it together. Parents, if you could discuss their word with them and help them understand its meaning after they have done their word study on it, I think it would help them a lot in processing what they think about it.
Apprentice was great, of course we ran short of time and couldn't share everything.
If you had a devotional planned for yesterday, would you please do it next week?
Rachel and Colt, will you follow up with who those youth were and make sure they know that they have it on Wednesday?
Here are the links to the Rembrandt favorites:
I hope all of you took a moment to look at his etching that was at the museum yesterday. It wasn't very big, but it was the only one kept under glass. :)
The field trip was great! I think we all really enjoyed studying the different paintings and thinking about what they meant to us. I loved hearing all the different insights that you had. The tour of the conference center was wonderful as well, many lovely and beautiful paintings there as well, some of them humongous! Another really cool thing that we noticed while there, was that a woman sat down at the piano to play, the sound carries very well through out the open spaces, and some of us realized that she was playing Chopin! So cool! I hope some of you noticed it. (It was all I could do not to interrupt our guide and shout out to the boys, Hey! It's Chopin! I did lean in and mention it to a few nearby me. Couldn't help it.)
We discussed The Mansion and the article by Wilcox during apprentice in smaller groups. These are a few of the thoughts we had: We talked about how we can have our hearts changed to become more like Christ.
We talked about how it's important to have the spirit with us and be doing the right things so that we are able to recognize when we are being prompted to do something for others. It's important to have the right motives and the right actions in the decisions that we make day to day.
Here are some of the literary device sentences that you all shared.
Grace:
Anagram: I can take the words 'Race Car' and spell it backwards, and still have it Spell 'Race Car.'
Gavin:
Hyperbole: All I EVER get to do is schoolwork!
Ashley:
Allegory:
Your spirit is like a whiteboard, don't leave the marks you make on it, because if you do, it's harder to get them off.
Isaiah:
Alliteration: Filipino has fun while flipping floppy frogs.
Kena:
Metaphor: "You are the thunder and I am the lightning"
Priscilla:
Personification: The moon smiled down at me!!!
Rachel:
Alliteration: Pretty Princess Petunia Pranced into Page's Purp-- People eater Plow/Van
Jordan:
Spoonerism: "Mom I'm so sorry! I lost me phell cone!"
Megan:
Simile: Reading a book is like sending an email....
Carmody:
Alliteration: Purple Polka-dotted Puppies Pounce Playfully on Poisoned Pink Popcorn! :) (Perchance playing posed perilous, poor pups!)
Gracious:
Hyperbole: I'm so full, I'm going to just explode!
These are just a few! I think everyone had a lot of fun learning about these. If you don't see one by you on here, it's because you didn't email them out to us. :)
Thank you everyone for your contributions!
Love, Sister Bates and Sister Housholder
