Centennial High
School Seminary
Las Vegas, Nevada
Brother Rushforth's
Class |
This site is no longer active. Brother Rushforth has a new calling and is no longer teaching seminary.
This page was made for the 2008-2009 school year, and has not been updated for 2009-2010.
Updated
02-Sep-2009
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Reading and Study Schedule
On the night before each class, please read the pertinent scriptures
and student manual for the lesson we will be discussing during the
class the next day.
This schedule is tentative and will need to be adjusted to accommodate Morningsides and perhaps other special presentations that are not presently scheduled.
| On this date: |
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For the schedule of 2008-2009 classes, click here.
For the schedule of 2007-2008 classes, click here.
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Class Rules
- Do not do anything stupid.
- Do not do anything to disrupt others from learning or
from feeling the Spirit.
Among other things, this means that:
- Cell phones must be off (not just on vibrate), which means no texting and no making or taking calls.
- No talking except when it is your turn.
- No food or drink in the classroom.
- Do your part to learn and to invite the Spirit. Among other things, this means that you will:
- Have your scriptures out every day.
- 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 the Church's scripture mastery web site, click here. (Excellent resource.)
- 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
Makeup work can be done by doing study in the student manual. Each lesson, at
the end, has an assignment and/or a series of questions that need to be
answered. Complete the assignments and questions on a separate piece of
paper and turn it in to Brother Rushforth. Be sure to put your name and
the lesson number(s) at the top of the page. If there is more than one
sheet of paper, put your name on each page. The student manual is available online at seminary.lds.org in two formats:
Feel free to select your own lessons from the student workbook, but if you want to focus on the lessons you missed, you can check out the lessons taught each day by viewing past lessons and current and recent lessons.
Credit will be given for the time and effort it takes to do the work. Some lessons in the student manual will make up one day, some lessons
are lengthy and will make up more than one day, and sometimes lessons
have to be combined to make up a day. If you want to know how many days
will be made up by doing a lesson, ask Brother Rushforth. You can send your lessons by hand delivery, postal mail, e-mail (attaching a scanned copy), or by fax (1 866 373 3607).
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. It is anticipated that you should spend at least 40 minutes on a worksheet or test to get one day's worth of make-up credit.
For work to be made up for the 2008-2009 (New Testament) course:
NOTES:
Some worksheets will count for more than one day if the answers are thorough. Also, if you tell me that you spent 80 minutes completing a worksheet, you will get two make-up days. Also, if a worksheet contains a quote with blanks, try searching on lds.org for the quotation using the name of the person quoted and a few of the key words. If you cannot quickly find the quote, just skip it.
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, Samuel, 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
METHOD #2 section above or from the New Testament Student manual (mentioned in METHOD #1, 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 nine
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
There will be no Seminary on these days:
- 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 (This is now a school day to make up for the snow day.)- March 17, 2009 - No Seminary - Proficiency Testing
- March 19, 2009 - Seminary Teacher Inservice
- April 6, 2009 through April 10, 2009 - Spring Break
- April 23, 2009 - Seminary Teacher Inservice
- May 21, 2009 - Seminary Teacher Inservice
- May 25, 2009 - Memorial Day
The last day of seminary for the school year will be May 29, 2009.
The last day of school is June 4, 2009.
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Links of Interest
(Each link opens a new web browser window.)
- Official Church Web Sites
- Church News - Web pages for the
Church News. (A subscription is required to view all pages.)
- Church
Videos - Church Library of Videos.
- Unofficial Church-Related Web Sites and Pages
- Sites Unrelated to Church
- 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. Choose your format:
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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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Web Pages © Copyright 2006-2009 Layne T.
Rushforth
All rights are strictly reserved.
Nothing on this site is
officially approved by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
("the Church").
The webmaster for this domain, Layne Rushforth, accepts full and sole
responsibility for
its content.
Materials on the lds.org
and ldsces.org
web
sites are officially approved by the Church.
- A helpful web site for regular scripture study is http://www.readthescriptures.com/, 