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YW Lesson 2-11: "Appreciating the Bishop"
This lesson lends itself well to local adaptation. That's a shorthand way of saying, know your girls and know your bishop, and that will tell you how to teach an entire lesson on bishop appreciation. If they're Beehives, you may want to focus on the idea of yearly interviews (of course, assuming...
An early morning start for seminary students in Chicago
Mormon Life says: Early morning seminary students should get an extra special diploma. Just my opinion.
After arising at 4:50 each school-day morning, 16-year-old Sonia Brown leaves home at 5:25 to make her way by Chicago Transit Authority bus and train through the streets of the third-largest city in...
How youth can defend themselves and their beliefs
A teacher in a high school a few months ago began her instruction one day by asking students who supported a political issue to stand on one side of the room, while those who opposed it were instructed to stand on the other side. After students had formed their sides, the teacher took her stance...
YW Lesson 2-10, "The Priesthood: A Great Blessing"
It's nearly spring, so it is almost that time of year when we have a unit on the priesthood. I always like that the timing coincides with the time of year to mark the priesthood restoration, the first vision, General Conference, the YW broadcast and Easter - those are all happy occasions that make...
Progress in personal progress
I'm working on a project that required a thorough examination of how the new personal progress program differs from the old one, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. After all the controversy around the bloggernacle about how the YW are "soft and pink," I wasn't expecting to see...
Kapp's influence on to Young Women noted at event
Mormon Life says: She changed the face of the Young Women's program.
The change in direction of the Young Women's program under Ardeth Green Kapp's administration in the early 1980s came from a simple question posed by one of her counselors. "What do we want to...
YW Lesson 2-9: "A Young Woman as a Peacemaker in Her Home"
This lesson's really a subset of the previous one, on improving communication within the home. I'm a few lessons behind these posts, so this past Sunday I taught the one about sharing work in the home--as a spinoff of the lesson about home environment, really, and a lot of our discussion revolved...
My First New Beginnings
OK, so this may be too late to help any of you, but I thought I'd post it nonetheless. Our New Beginnings isn't until next week, what with the change in presidencies and everything, and we've finally got everything planned enough for me to share. First of all, prior to being in charge of the...
I’m Not Perfect. Can I Still Go to Heaven?–An Interview with Anthony Sweat
Anthony Sweat is a full-time religious educator, currently teaching seminary at West High in Salt Lake City, and a regular speaker at Especially For Youth and Education Week conferences. He is the co-author of the bestselling book WHY? Powerful Answers and Practical Reasons for Living LDS...
YW Lesson 2-8 "Improving Communication Skills"
This lesson plan's built around demonstrating how frustrating it is when communication only goes one way, then creating a 4-way blackboard grid to compare "poor/good" communication, and discussing "barriers to" and "benefits of" good communication, followed by a list of case studies that probably...
YW Lesson 2-7: "Living in Love and Harmony"
Aside from the kind of vague hippy-commune title, the main point of this lesson is to encourage girls to look for ways to promote, demonstrate, and experience greater love and harmony at home. It's part of the ongoing Homefront/Family Life unit. It's straightforward, addressing concrete things...
YW Lesson 2-6 "Sharing Work in the Home"
This lesson is kinda skimpy, there's just not a lot to it. "Teenagers should help with family chores. And they should have a good attitude about it." Um, yeah, and that's it. Thanks for coming. See you next week. Seriously, how am I going to eke an entire lesson out of this? Maudlin stories about...
YW Lesson 2-5: "Home Environment"
Love the preparation suggestion #3 for this lesson - be sure, ladies, to "Make your classroom as attractive as possible for this lesson. Cover the table with a cloth and place a centerpiece on it." Giggle. I think maybe I'll shoot for realism instead. I'll dump a basket of unsorted socks on the...
YW Lesson 3-4: "Obeying Commandments Helps Us Fulfill Our Divine Roles"
It's only four weeks into this manual and already... if my New Year's Resolution was to teach out of the manual as written, I'd be breaking my resolution on this lesson for sure. Why? Three reasons. 1) The 3 quotes provided in the lesson are from 30, 35, and 37 years ago. Thank heavens for the...
YW Lesson 2-3 "Building the Kingdom of God"
This lesson is several weeks in the future for me, since we have a January stake conference coming up, so this is more of a series of kind of unconnected thoughts on the topic. It seems to me that this is really two lessons for the price of one, one on the importance of sacrifice (which is what...
