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<![CDATA[www.JohnBushman.com - Old Blog]]>Sat, 18 May 2013 15:41:37 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[“NW Seminary Share” IS MOVING !]]>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 17:07:19 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/04/nw-seminary-share-is-moving.html

Years ago I wrote a book and bought the URL: www.johnbushman.com to help me promote that book and get the word out. Later I decided to use the URL as a place to put helps for my seminary teachers, so I took off content related to my book so there would not be a conflict of interest.
        But now things have changed. Some friends and I have written a book, so I need to take back my website and use it for promoting this book. I especially need to make this switch because the book is seminary related, yet a personal endeavor, so that would be an extra big conflict of interest.
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-John S. Bushman

]]><![CDATA[Scripture Study Skills Lesson #4 -Marking the Scriptures]]>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:45:04 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/04/scripture-study-skills-lesson-4-marking-the-scriptures.html

Here is the 4th scripture study skills lesson. This lesson will help your students learn the four basic principles of effective scripture marking and give them practice using those skills. CLICK HERE for the lesson outline and, CLICK HERE for the graphics. You can teach this lesson with any pages of scripture that have many principles there. For this lesson idea, I have used 2 Timothy 2-3.

]]><![CDATA[Scripture Study Skills Lesson #3 -Fishing for Principles]]>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:47:56 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/03/scripture-study-skills-fishing-for-principles.html

Here is the 3rd lesson to teach your students scripture study skills. CLICK HERE for the lesson outline and, CLICK HERE for the two graphics. The second graphic is great for teaching students the difference between a principle and doctrine, and help for structuring a principle. The lesson uses Philippians 1-4, but you can use it with many places in the scriptures where you find lots of principles.

]]><![CDATA[Annotating Paul's Letters]]>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:06:02 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/03/annotating-pauls-letters.html

A few of you were wondering if I had any glue-ins for Paul’s letters. Here is something that might be better. In seminary we want to get the students in the habit of writing notes and annotations in their own scriptures. So here is an assignment that gets them to do that. Print out a handout for each pair of students and have them write the brief annotation at the top of the beginning of each epistle of Paul in their scriptures. It might be easiest to do this all at once for Paul's 14 books.

]]><![CDATA[Friends who need your Scripture Power]]>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:43:18 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/03/friends-who-need-your-scripture-power.html

Here is probably the last worksheet I will send this year that helps your students understand the purposes behind Scripture Mastery.
And again, I am not sending an answer key. It is better to have them fill it out, then go over it as a class and decide which is best based on good discussion and process of elimination.

]]><![CDATA[1 Corinthians 15:40-42 Three Degrees of Glory Worksheet.]]>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 20:53:08 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/03/1-corinthians-1540-42-three-degrees-of-glory-worksheet.html

Click on the picture to get the worksheet. It helps students think about the kind of person they need to be. I think it is also VERY important to share that those who receive Celestial glory are not perfect people, but made perfect through Christ (D&C 76:69); and that they are valiant and always striving and trying to follow the Lord (D&C 76:79).
The worksheet is one I got from Art Mechem years ago. Thanks Art!

]]><![CDATA[March Madness]]>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:53:32 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/02/march-madness2.html

I love March. For those who don’t know, this is the month that college basketball teams from all over the nation battle it out for #1.   For me, March also seems to be the time that hope is back in the air. Help your kids feel that. I know that some of you teachers do a little competition with March Madness to decrease TARDIES, and increase READING.   There are many ways to do this. One way is to break the class into two EVEN teams for the month of MARCH and let them choose a team name. Then you can set up a hoop (converted trashcan can work) in the room and then at the end of class, if they READ they can shoot for their team, and if they were there ON TIME, they can shoot. I would give them the option of choosing to take their earned shots at a 2 point or 3 point line. Over the month the teams will battle it out by being on time and reading.
          The trick to all this is don’t let it take much class time. For this reason, let them simply mark being on time and reading as they come in. (Don’t take class time for that!) Then leave the last 3 minutes of class for the shooting for the entire month.

        Since you might already have a hoop set up for “March Madness” you might also be interested in playing Scripture Mastery Basketball. Divide the class into two teams.   One team will send up someone to shoot (with a rebounder) while the other team chases. The faster the other team can all get to the scripture mastery in their scriptures, the less time the other team has to shoot. Then they switch. I like to give the shooter the option of shooting from a 2 point line or a three point line. The team with the most points wins. Make sure to give everyone the chance to shoot. Each team will also want to have someone helping with rebounds.

]]><![CDATA[Scripture Study Skills Lesson #2]]>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:25:55 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/02/scripture-study-skills-lesson-2.html

Here is the second lesson for teaching your students effective scripture study skills. CLICK HERE to get the lesson outline, and CLICK HERE to get the visuals and the bookmarks that you can print off cardstock to give to each student. This is essentially, one of the lessons I have given at EFY for the last 5 years. Like I said, this is the second lesson, and it goes with Romans 12. The first lesson outline went with Romans 8. CLICK HERE to get the First lesson outline off my website. The first outline has an introduction so it will help the students understand the whole purpose of these lessons, if you haven’t done that yet.
I hope these lessons will help you and your students learn the skills of effective scripture study better. In March I will send lesson #3 and then one (#4, #5, #6) every other week for the next month after that. The spacing is so that it goes with those lessons you will be teaching in the New Testament. I would really love to hear how the lessons work for you and how they could be improved.

]]><![CDATA["Marvin the Missionary" NT Scripture Mastery Worksheet]]>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:08:49 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/02/marvin-the-missionary-nt-scripture-mastery-worksheet.html

Here is another worksheet to help your students learn how to apply the Scripture Mastery scriptures to situations in life. These help from the context of a missionary helping an investigator. Click on the image to get the worksheet.

]]><![CDATA["Scripture Man" Scripture Mastery Game]]>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:38:32 GMThttp://www.johnbushman.com/4/post/2013/02/scripture-man-scripture-mastery-game.html

        This morning I overheard a teacher and class president talking about scripture mastery games and how they can sometimes feel too contentious. I think we have all been there before.   But it made me want to share one of my favorites Scripture Mastery Games that doesn’t bring contention like many games, yet students also say is one of their favorites. It’s called “Scripture Man”.
            Click on the image to see the game sheet. Before class, make a copy of the Scripture Man half sheet for each student. Before hand, you will also need to cut up small pieces of paper with each having one of the coordinates written on it (A1, C3, D5...).    Put those small papers in a hat or bowl to randomly draw from during the game.
            In class, have your students fill out the Scripture Man board as indicated on the handout. To play the game, give a Scripture Mastery clue and then count down 15 seconds and call “Time”. Then pull out a square and ask the class what the right answer was. Those who got to the reference in time, get the points from that square. In other words, those who get to the correct page get the square that is chosen. As they get the hang of the game, go to 10 seconds or less. I also like to draw a grid on the board for myself and fill it out so I am also in the game and the kids see me getting points and losing them too. I have found this game is particularly good with classes that get too competitive because they are only competing with themselves.
            Remember there are other Scripture Mastery Game on the website: http://www.johnbushman.com/scripture-mastery-games.html
            This is also a fun game to help teach the story line and details of a scripture block (like in the Book of Acts). To do this, give them a chapter to study (or set of verses) in a few minutes. Then when that time it up, ask the class a question in which the answer is found in the verses. Have them write the correct answer on the back of their papers. Then ask the class what the correct answer is. Then if they wrote the correct answer on the back, they get the square you randomly chose for Scripture Man. Make sure you stop to talk about the lessons in the verses as they come up.

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