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Reading and Study Schedule

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Class Rules

1. Do not do anything stupid.
2. Do not do anything to disrupt others from learning or from feeling the Spirit. Among other things, this means that:
   1. Cell phones must be off (not just on vibrate), which means no texting and no making or taking calls.
   2. No talking except when it is your turn.
   3. No food or drink in the classroom.
3. Do your part to learn and to invite the Spirit. Among other things, this means that you will:
   1. Have your scriptures out every day.
   2. Participate in class discussion and class activities.
      

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Basic Information

• SEMINARY CLASS TIME.  The first day of Seminary for the 2008-2009 school year is August 25, 2008. Seminary starts at 6:00 a.m. On the first day, class will end at 6:30 a.m. to allow extra time to go to school. On all other days, Seminary will end at 6:40 a.m.
• HOLIDAYS. All school holidays are also observed for Seminary, plus there will be days when Seminary is pre-empted by faculty inservice training. The Seminary holidays are listed below.
• TEXT BOOK.  The text book for the 2008-2009 school year is the New Testament. Scriptures can be purchased from the Church Distribution web site at ldscatalog.com. Because the scripture-storage locations in most classrooms are unlocked, I suggest using an inexpensive paperbound copy of the scriptures in Seminary. In other words, I recommend against using your expensive leatherbound edition in Seminary. At homes that have Internet access, the scriptures can be studied online on the scripture pages of the primary Church web site (lds.org). For the suggested reading schedule for 2008-2009, click here. A helpful web site for regular scripture study is http://www.readthescriptures.com/, where you can sign up to receive passages via e-mail.
• STUDY MATERIALS.  Supplemental study materials can be found on the seminary web pages of the Church Education System web site. A link to the student manual is on that site, and a printed copy is available upon request. Here are links to the student manual is available in two formats: HTML and PDF (large file size).
• SCRIPTURE MASTERY.  How well you learn the 26 Scripture Mastery scriptures will be part of the grade you will be given. You were given cards to help you learn these scriptures.
  • To download additional copies, click here.
  • For scripture mastery verses set to music, click here.  (Thanks to Sister Marylynn Paul for these links.)
  • For Brother Ben Holladay's web site that allows you to test yourself on scripture mastery verses, click here.
• CLASS TIME / CREDIT.  Seminary starts at 6:00 a.m. Anyone arriving after 6:01 a.m. is tardy.
  • Seminary credit is given for students who attend at least 80% of the time.
  • Credit will be withheld for those who are tardy more than 20% of the time.
  • Absences and tardies can be made up by doing homework assigned by the teacher.
  • For the official policy on attendance and tardiness (with a note from Brother Rushforth), click here.
  • To see how to make up excessive absences or tardy days, click here.
  • Your grade will be based on scripture reading, class participation, and scripture mastery.  If you attend but do not constructively participate or if a significant portion of your "attendance" is based on make-up work, you will be given a "P" or passing grade. For the grading worksheet, click here.

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Makeup Work

There are three ways to make up work:

METHOD #1: Make-up Work Using The Student Manual

METHOD #2: Make-up Work Using Worksheets and Quizzes

You can also make up days completing a worksheet or test that we did on a day that you missed.

For work to be made up for the 2008-2009 (New Testament) course:

Worksheet for 09/04/2008

Worksheet for 09/09/2008

Worksheet for 09/16/2008

Worksheet for 09/23/2008

Worksheet for 10/09/2008

Worksheet for 10/13/2008

Test for 10/17/2008

For work that needs to be made up for 2007-2008 (Old Testament) course:

August 31, 2007 Worksheet - Introduction to the Old Testament

September 9, 2007 Quiz - Class Review (Designed to be printed on legal-size paper)

September 26, 2007 Worksheet - Abraham

October 2, 2007 Worksheet - Sarah; Sodom and Gomorrah

November 7, 2007 Worksheet - Plagues of Egypt

December 11, 2007 Worksheet - Leviticus

December 18, 2007 Worksheet - Balaam and the talking donkey.

January 8, 2008 Worksheet - Deuteronomy

January 9, 2008 Worksheet - Similarities of Christ and Moses

January 14, 2008 Worksheet - Joshua 1:8; benefits of scripture study

February 7, 2008 Worksheet - Hannah, Samual, Saul, and David

March 24, 2008 Worksheet - Isaiah Overview

March 25, 2008 Worksheet - Isaiah's Counsel and Messianic Prophecies (Counts as one day per side)

March 31, 2008 Worksheet - Review of Isaiah

April 3, 2008 Worksheet - Great Are the Words of Isaiah

April 28, 2008 Worksheet - Prophecies of Ezekiel

May 5, 2008 Worksheet - Conclusion of Ezekiel

METHOD #3: Teaching the New Testament in Family Home Evening

You can also make up days by teaching  a Family Home Evening lesson based on the New Testament, using materials that you learned in Seminary.  Feel free to download and use a worksheet or test from the section above.  To qualify for this credit, you must give Brother Rushforth a written memo explaining what you taught and how you taught it.

IMPORTANT: Make-up work should take about the same amount of time as a class period (40 minutes). Credit will be given based on the work done. For example, if you teach a 20-minute home-evening lesson that took 60 minutes to prepare, you will get two days of make-up credit. It will help if you indicate on the report you turn in how much time you took to do the work; otherwise, Brother Rushforth will use his best judgment (which means he will guess).

For Brother Rushforth's class, watching or reading General Conference talks is not a way to make up Seminary absences and tardies.

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Your Teacher

Brother Layne Rushforth is from the Durango Ward of the Lone Mountain Stake. Brother Rushforth was raised in Kaysville, Utah, which is between Salt Lake City and Ogden. Approximately eleventy dozen years ago, he served as a Spanish-speaking missionary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught for three years in the Language Training Mission (LTM) before its name was changed to the Missionary Training Center (MTC). He attended BYU, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Political Science and Spanish. He subsequently received his juris doctor degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU. He and his family have made Las Vegas their home since 1981. Brother Rushforth and his wife, Sharon, have six children and eight grandchildren. Their four sons have served missions in North Carolina (Spanish), Brazil, Mississippi, and Virginia. In September of 2006, Brother Rushforth was released as Bishop of the Durango Ward and started teaching seminary two weeks later. This background should serve as a warning that Brother Rushforth's lessons may sometimes sound like advice and preaching from a Bishop, father, and/or grandfather.  He is an attorney practicing in the area of trusts and estates (i.e., estate planning and probate), so it is unlikely there will be much attorney advice in his lessons.

Contact Information for Brother Layne Rushforth

• E-mail: rushforth@centennialseminary.org
  
• Telephones:
  • 702-219-3541.  Verizon cell phone.  This is the best number to call.  If you call, please let it ring until it is answered by me or by voice-mail.  If you get voice-mail, please leave a message.   Feel free to send text messages to this number or to cell@rushforth.org.
    
  • 702-255-4552.  Work phone.
    
  • 866-373-3607.  Personal fax. (This is a toll-free number. Dial 1 and the full number.)

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2008-2009 Seminary Holidays

• November 27-28, 2008 - Thanksgiving Day / Family Day
• December 22,2008 through January 4, 2009 - Winter Break
• January 15, 2009 - Seminary Teacher Inservice
• January 19, 2009 - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
• January 23, 2009 - School District Staff Development Day
• February 16, 2009 - Presidents' Day
• March 2, 2009 - School District Staff Development Day
• March 19, 2009 - Seminary Teacher Inservice
• April 6, 2009 through April 10, 2009 - Spring Break
• April 23, 2009 - Seminary Teacher Inservice
• May 25, 2009 - Memorial Day

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Links of Interest

(Each link opens a new web browser window.)

• Official Church Web Sites
  • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Church's Main Web Site
  • Online Scriptures - LDS.ORG web site scriptures. For audio version, click here.
  • Church Web Site: Seminary Web Pages - Church Web Site for Seminary Students
  • Seminary Music - LDS.ORG web site seminary music.
  • Books of Old Testament - Children's Song Book #114.
  • Mormon.org - Information about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  • JesusChrist.lds.org - Savior-focused web pages.
• Church News - Web pages for the Church News. (A subscription is required to view all pages.)
• Church Videos - Church Library of Videos.
• Finding Faith in Christ - View online.
• The Restoration - View online.
• The Bread of Life - View online.
• FamilySearch™ Internet Genealogy Service - Family History Center.
• Provident Living - Guidelines for provident spiritual and temporal living.
• maps.lds.org - Locate wards and branches throughout the world.
  
• Parent's Guide - Parent's Guide for a Successful Religious Educational Experience in Seminary - Centennial High School
• - A helpful web site for regular scripture study is http://www.readthescriptures.com/, where you can sign up to receive passages via e-mail.
• Scripture Mastery Songs - Scripture Mastery verses set to music.(Thanks to Sister Marylynn Paul for this link.)
• Mission Preparation Checklist - Checklist for young missionary candidates.
• Encyclopedia of Mormonism - Complete online version of the Encyclopedia from BYU
• Centennial High School - Official School Web Site
• School District 2008 - 2009 Key Dates List - Important dates for school year.
• The Mom's Song - Entertaining video in which a mother's daily instructions are condensed to a song that is sung to the William Tell Overture. (To see the lyrics, click on the link labeled ""About this Video".)

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Identify the Prophets, Seers, and Revelators

• For current photos of all the current Apostles without names, click here.
• For current photos of all the current Apostles with names, click here.
• For photos of all the current Apostles as young boys without names, click here.
• For photos of all the current Apostles as young boys with names, click here.
• For all four sets of photos, click here.
• These are all .pdf files. If you do not have Adobe Reader software to view.pdf views, click here, and then download and install the software. (There is no charge for this software.)

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