Update Jan. 16

Thank you for your good work while I was gone yesterday. The substitute teacher said students were wonderful, and I had a good experience serving as a juror. By today, you should have read up through page 105 of Pride and Prejudice. You should also have begun working on your First Vision memorization.

Writing Portfolio

After turning in their letters to the editor, students received the new writing assignment (Family Present--Part 1, see separate post). Students began working on this assignment, selecting quotations that might help illustrate each character's type of pride.

Core
Bellwrite: Commonplace books

Students took a reading check for Pride and Prejudice, including vocabulary words learned from the reading. We watched the portions of the Pride and Prejudice movie which we have read (up through Mr. Collins' proposal).

For history, students began working on American Founding Topic 5: The Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As students read the account of Angel Moroni's visit to Joseph Smith, they should look up each of the scriptural passages he quotes and study them. What do they reveal about Joseph Smith's mission? What do they reveal about the work of the Lord in the latter days? How does Moroni's version of the Malachi 4 passage differ from the one in our Bible? Why are those differences significant? We will continue working on this reading next Tuesday.

Homework:

• Work on the First Vision memorization.
• Read Pride and Prejudice through page 134. Continue to learn vocabulary.