1) In second year Latin, four sharp students = one excited teacher. Let the conjugating begin.
2) Latin 1 has broken the record for largest SCA class size with a whopping 20 students (not that all the students are fat - that's just a large total population for an SCA class.) We even have some interested moms who are attending the class with their kids this year. Hey, what's not to like about that? I love to teach Latin so bring 'em on.
3) In English literature, we're having a bumpy start as we work through some book issues. It seems that both a compact edition and the "real" 2000 page edition have the same ISBN (BTW: one doesn't have to say "ISBN number" since the word "number" is already represented in the "N" of ISBN - just thought you'd want to know that.) When the dust settles we're going to have a smashing class. This is the class where we get to explore what's out there in the world of literature, what the Bible says (the greatest literature book of all), and work on writing about literature from each individual's unique perspective.
All in all, an exciting year ahead!
And finally, here are some descriptions of Christ from last week's sermon - excellent meditation material.
Genesis – The Seed crushing the Serpent’s head
Exodus – The Passover Lamb delivering His people
Leviticus – The perfect High Priest who enters the holy of holies with His blood
Numbers – The Rock bringing forth life-giving waters
Deuteronomy – The Prophet like Moses giving us law
Joshua – The Conqueror who brings us to
Judges – The One like Samson whose own death destroys enemies and brings deliverance to His people
Ruth – The Kinsmen Redeemer who rescues us from our poverty
Samuel – The Son of David who rules over the earth
Kings – The King like Solomon whom the ends of earth seek to behold His wisdom and glory
Chronicles – The One who will build an eternal throne
Ezra – The One like Ezra who rebuilds people on the perfect law of God
Nehemiah – The One who rebuilds the fallen walls of the church
Esther – The One who casts down proud and raises the humble
Job – The One who will truly trust God though he be slain by Him
Psalms – The glorious Shepherd-King who leads His people to righteousness and victory
Proverbs – The One in whom the wisdom of God resides
Ecclesiastes – The One whom brings meaning in this otherwise vain world
Song of Songs – The Groom who sings love songs to His bride, the church
Isaiah – The Suffering Servant who bears the sins of His people
Jeremiah & Lamentations – The Prophet who weeps over destruction of Jerusalem and His people
Ezekiel – The Glorious Lord seated on throne on a sea of crystal
Daniel – The Son of Man receiving the kingdom from the Ancient of Days
Hosea – The Faithful Husband who seeks after His straying bride
Joel – The One who will pour forth His Spirit on all His people
Amos – The Plumb Line before whose holy standard no man's righteousness can pass
Obadiah – The Lord who will ultimately possess even His worst enemies’ lands
Jonah – The One who was raised up on third day like Jonah from the belly of fish
Micah – The One who simultaneously does justice and loves kindness
Nahum – The One who brings wrath on those rejecting His message
Habakkuk – The One who will not spare false professors of faith
Zephaniah – The Victorious Warrior exulting over His people
Haggai – The One who will build the true
Zechariah – The High Priest who is crowned as King
Malachi – The Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings
Much to think about. Have a good one!
2 comments:
I love the descriptions of christ...truly a lot to think about! :-)
::sniffle:: makes me wish I was taking *your* Lit class rather that Rudy's, I'm afraid that when the Bible comes up in there it doesn't bear near the weight that we know it has.
That's a very fine little note too, I'm afraid that before this moment I've been saying plenty of "ISBN number" now I shall sound as cultured and educated as... my favorite English teacher!
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