Second Semester All-Stars

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Reading from First Timothy 4: 7-12
"Train yourself for devotion."

Reading from Matthew's Gospel 5:14-16
"You are the light of the world!"


Freshman All-Stars 200-01:
1Q | First Semester
3Q | Second Semester


1st QTR Freshman Review Questions

First Semester Exam Preview

Last year's Final Exam Preview

Tom Hyde's Final Exam Preview


SUMMARY OF FRESHMAN HOMEWORK
AND ASSIGNMENTS:
FOURTH QUARTER
2000-2001

Extra Credit:
Second Semester | 4Q specials

Reading Scripture on Three Levels

Teen Hebrew Scriptures

Praying with Scriptures

Ten Commandments for Bible Study

Websites done by former students that might help you review Old Testament Salvation History
Mike Smallwood's summary
Stephen Hirsch's summary



Some freshmen have done sites about
other oppressed people:
Bob Unger The Holocaust | Ryan Neumann Rwanda
Matt Fiess Rwanda | Adam Shalapin Cambodia
Some students have done sites about
creation myths of other cultures
Nick Odem Ancient Greece
Ted Makarewicz Ancient Egypt
Matt Fiess Africa's Anansi and the Sky God



Second Semester All-Stars



2S Eighteenth, and Final, Week, May 21-25

Past Sunday Readings

Monday, May 21 Return "Oh, God!" essay and check semester points. Review key ideas from Kushner's "To Life!"
Homework Study for the exam.

Tuesday, May 22 Reflection on Mr. Curdt's prayer service: What kind of sophomore will you be?
Homework Study for the exam.

Thursday, May 22 Final Exam at 8:15 AM.


2S Seventeenth Week, May 14-18

Past Sunday Readings

Monday, May 14 Return tests and check grades. Collect extra credit. Brainstorm "Major Themes of the Old Testament."
Homework Read over Purdue's on line writing lab's guide to writng an essay .

Tuesday through Thursday, May 15-17
Class: Watch video "Oh, God!"
Homework: Begin to study for exam. Try Tom Hyde's Final Exam Preview . You could also check my final exam preview from last year
10 point essay "Three Major Old Testament Themes in the Movie 'Oh, God!'" due on Friday, May 18.

Friday, May 18
Class: "Oh, God!" essay due. Talked about midrash and gaetwo examples: The Right Man, from Does God Have A Big Toe? and David Mueller's short video "Cain and Abel." Also talked about the coming exam.
Homework: First part of the exam: 10 point take home essay entitled "Three Major Ideas Learned in Freshman Theology." Remember the directions of the essay you just wrote. Due Monday.

2S Sixteenth Week, May 8-11

Past Sunday Readings

Monday, May 7 Have a good day off!

Tuesday, May 8
Class: Rabbi Harold Kushner's video: "When Bad Things Happen to Good People"
Homework: Create a chart or a timeline or cards or a poem "How did the Old Testament come to be?"due Thursday

Wednesday, May 9
Class: Continue video.
Homework: Continue homework.

Thursday, May 10
Class: Finish video and discuss the bits of wisdom literature we've taken.
Homework: Study for tomorrow's test.

Friday, May 11
Class: 10 point quiz on recent assigned readng and classes: selected wisdom literature.
Homework: No homework. Next week we begin preparing for the exam!



2S Fifteenth Week, April 29- May 1

Past Sunday Readings

Monday, April 30
Class: Finish video. Q & A about tomorrow's 20 point test: Genesis 1-11, workbook, video Who Wrote the Bible and Joseph Campbell. Homework: Study for test.

Tuesday, May 1
Class: 20 point test.
Homework: Workbook intro and pages about Psalms.


Class: Guest "My Favorite Book in the Old Testament." Be able to tell who the guest speaker was, what was his favorite passage or book and why, and what did you learn from this person.
Homework: Read the Book of Jonah. Do workbook pages 161-162.

Thursday, May 3
Class:
Return and correct tests.
Homework: Workbook 173-174 Proverbs.

Friday, May 4
Class:
Homework: If you were asked to give a class like our guest on Wednesday about their favorite Old Testament passage(s), what you would say? Write an essay "My Favorite Biblical ______." Choose passage, book story, person---write it and tell why. +10 points.


Begin Studying for the Exam!
Here is a summary of key questions from Hebrew Scripture from last year. You should be able to handle most of it.
Don't forget to study the times lines. You have two websites done by former students that might help you review Old Testament Salvation History
Mike Smallwood's summary
Stephen Hirsch's summary




2S Fourteenth Week, April 23-27

Past Sunday Readings

Monday, April 23
Class: Homework: Correct test and learn. Read/study Genesis chapter 2 & 3.


Tuesday, April 24
Class: Discuss Genesis 1-3; do parts of workbook pgs 26-28 in class. talk about the meaning of myth.
Homework: Read Genesis 4, 5 & 6


Wednesday, April 25
Class: Short video: Joseph Campbell on myth. Do workbook pg. 29.
Homework: Read Genesis 7 to 11,26


Thursday, April 26
Class: Video: A&E's Who Wrote the Bible? Part One . Fill in worksheet.
Homework: Do workbook pages 30-37 by Monday.
Finish Who Wrote the Bible?

Friday, April 27
Class: Finish video. Continue work on whrksheet.
Homework: Continue and finish workbook. 20 point test on Tuesday.


Consider doing some extra credit!
Second Semester Extra Credit | 4Q specials



2S Thirteenth Week, April 17-20

Past Sunday Readings

Tuesday, April 17
Class: Hand in "Vernon Johns: Modern prophet" essay. Do review sheet in class.
Homework: Make sure both Divided Kingdom time lines are done.


Wednesday, April 18
Class: Gospel reading: On the road to Emmaus (Luke 24, 13-35) Copy time line core. Work on Path Through Scriptures pages.
Homework: Prophets crossword and wordsearch.


Thursday, April 19
Class: Work on readings, crossword and word search and time lines.
Homework: Study for quiz. Finish time lines.


Friday, April 20
Class: Collect time lines. 20+ point quiz.
Homework: Read Genesis chapter 1. Read it in one of the two suggested prayeful methods. Make sure you know Ten Commandments for Bible Study.



2S Twelfth Week, April 9-11, Easter Week

Past Sunday Readings
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, April 9-11
Class: The Road to Freedom: The Vernon Johns Story. This is available at some video stores.
Homework: Essay Vernon Johns; Modern Prophet. Follow instructions of handout given Monday. Click here of a link to a good site about Dr. Johns life and times. Click here to read one of his most famous sermons Transfigured Moments. Click here for an interview with Taylor Branch, a discussion of Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual and political legacy. The story of the civil rights movement is about ordinary people. Taylor Branch is the author of Pillar of Fire: America in the King years, 1963-1965

Click here for Dr. King's The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life.",

Since we will not finish the video until Wednesday, the Johns essay will be due when we get back from Easter.
It will be due Tuesday, April 17.

There is no other homework assigned over Easter break. I hope you do take time to attend services on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and, of course, Easter Sunday. If you want to do some theology this might be a good time for extra credit work.




2S Eleventh Week, April 2-6

Past Sunday Readings
Try this! LISTEN to this reading! You need RealPlayer.
Monday, April 2
Class: 10 point quiz on the North. Do workbook pages 138-139 "Micah: Prophet for the Poor. "
Homework: Read Micah in Today's World and complete pages 142-143 in workbook about Isaiah due Wednesday.

Tuesday, April 3
Class: Reconciliation Service.
Homework: Continue and finish yesterday's homework on Micah and Isaiah. Also do pages 144-145 about Isaiah.

Wednesday, April 4
Class: Workbook Jeremiah 146-147.
Homework: Workbook 148

Thursday, April 5
Class: Workbook Ezekiel 149-150
Homework: Ezekiel 152-153

Friday, April 6
Class: 10 point quiz on the Divided Kingdom: Judah. Emphasis on four prophets: Micah, Isiah, Jeremiah & Ezekiel.
Homework: Workbook pgs. 155-157 "Review of the Prophets."



2S Tenth Week, March 26-30
Block Schedule Week

Past Sunday Readings
Try this! LISTEN to this reading! You need RealPlayer.


Monday, March 26
Class: Return exams and check grades. Correct and learn from mistakes. Go over Lenten reflection assignment.
Homework: Lenten reflection. Remember Bill Moyer's Trade Secrets on PBS (channel 9) at 9 pm.

Tuesday or Wednesday, March 27 or 28
Class:Read intro in American Bible to the prophetic works. Workbook pages about Elijhah: do 110 and read over 111. Give out and start two timelines for the Divided Kingdom. Begin homework, if time allows.
Homework: Read 114-117 and complete page 118.

Thursday, March 28
Class: Return Lenten reflection and make comments. remind students of what they learned in Zanzig about the liturgical year. Oprah segment on Laura.
Homework: Workbook: read 119-121; complete Amos pages 123-126.

Friday, March 29
Class: Time line about the North: key figures are Elijah, Amos and Hosea. Discuss prophets and the story of Amos. Do workbook page 131, "Hosea: Prophet of Love and Forgivenss."
Homework: Complete worksheet "Amos Revisited" to be handed in next class.


Note: Tuesday, April 3, will be our Class Reconciliation Day.




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