It's not about the nail

Watch, ponder and discuss your thoughts on how you would react or how you are reacting to those around you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg

Quest 1 First Semester Syllabus

Quest I

Class Schedule 

Week 1: Lecture                                            Week 2: Historical Document & Essay

Week 3: Book Colloquia                               Week 4: Historical Document & Essay

Month 1

Aug. 1: Kickoff/Movie night @6pm @ Sis. E’s house (1416 E 138^th Place, Glenpool)

Sept. 4: Lecture: 3 Systems of Education

Sept.11: Colloquia on A place to Stand biography, Document Study on “Defense at the Diet of Wyrms” & Blue Book on Martin Luther

Sept. 18: Colloquia on Give Me Liberty biography, Document Study on  “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death”, & Martin Luther Paper due.  Blue Book on Patrick Henry.

Sept. 25: Colloquia on 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens 

Month 2

Oct. 2: Lecture: Keys to Leadership Education: 7 Keys, 5 Environments, 4 Phases, & 7 Habits paper due

Oct. 8: (tentative date)  Colloquia on Lincoln: A Photo biography, Document Study on “Gettysburg Address”, & Blue Book on Abraham Lincoln

Oct.16: No classes (Fall Break)

Oct.23: Colloquia on Ender’s Shadow & Abraham Lincoln Paper Due

Oct.30: Colloquia on Fiery Vision biography, Document Study on  “Treason Defense”, & Blue Book on John Brown

Month 3

Nov. 6: Lecture: The Scholarship Ladders & John Brown Paper Due

Nov.13: Colloquia on Fighter Without A Sword biography, document study on “It’s a Sick World”, & Blue Book on Gandhi

Nov. 20: Catch up & Gandhi Paper Due

Nov. 27: No Classes (Thanksgiving)

Month 4 

Dec. 4: Colloquia on My Life with Martin Luther King Jr biography, document study on “I Have a Dream”, & Blue Book on Martin Luther King Jr

Dec. 11: Lecture “6 Keys to Personal Influence”, Martin Luther King paper due, & hand out take home final

Dec. 18: @ Darcey’s 6519 E. 106^th Street, Tulsa, OK         Written Blue Book final: Declaration of Independence & practice orals

*All books and schedule are subject to change per mentors’ discretion.

*We will also be scheduling a writing workshop early in the semester and a speech workshop during second semester.  Both of these will be held outside of our regular Thursday classes.

*One book is due weekly, one document study, a 4-6-page research paper, and a 15-minute presentation.  All course work will be graded and D/A’s (do again) will be administered. 

This may be the hardest thing you will ever do thus far yet, remember the words of Elder Bednar, “During difficult experiences… character is built.”          WE KNOW YOU CAN DO HARD THINGS.  

Timeline for Historical Facts in Book Colloquias Q

Good Idea from the LEMI Yahoo Group:

Susan, One of the things we are doing this year ~ we will create a timeline of the people we study so we can better see how each person fits into the big picture. While we might get off to a slow start this semester (only studying 6 statesmen) I figure it will pick up next semester when each student picks his own people to present on in terms of the traits of a statesman (6 students x 6 traits). Then, looking forward, I think it will be awesome in QUEST III to see how the worldviews fit into the timeline, too. We are also going to show on a map where each person we learn about is from so we can see how people in different parts of the world still have influence here in our little part of the world! ~ Kelly