Showing posts with label Leadership Academy. Show all posts
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Coming up with a unique Creed for your group
We started doing this the first year, but I didn't follow-through like I should have to make it good.
Basically, we were going to put the following idea together on a poster board or some other medium, and put it on the wall to remind the youth what they committed themselves to do. My friend Marni put the process and reasoning behind this well:
"[This idea] came from a marriage/family mini class I went to at a stake RS night a few months back. They talked about their family creed, and gave out copies. It lists several things things they will do every day, things they will do every week, every month, every year, and that they always strive to do. At the top it says, "As part of the Johnstun Family, I'll do my part and help every member of our family, so we will have no empty chairs in the celestial kingdom." It would be cool to have the youth take time to come up with a Vanguard Youth Creed, totally created by the youth. If they are setting the goals and expectations together themselves (like 'Every week come prepared with Apprentice inspirements,' 'Every month we go to the temple'), hopefully they would be more willing and excited to keep them."
Basically, we were going to put the following idea together on a poster board or some other medium, and put it on the wall to remind the youth what they committed themselves to do. My friend Marni put the process and reasoning behind this well:
"[This idea] came from a marriage/family mini class I went to at a stake RS night a few months back. They talked about their family creed, and gave out copies. It lists several things things they will do every day, things they will do every week, every month, every year, and that they always strive to do. At the top it says, "As part of the Johnstun Family, I'll do my part and help every member of our family, so we will have no empty chairs in the celestial kingdom." It would be cool to have the youth take time to come up with a Vanguard Youth Creed, totally created by the youth. If they are setting the goals and expectations together themselves (like 'Every week come prepared with Apprentice inspirements,' 'Every month we go to the temple'), hopefully they would be more willing and excited to keep them."
Friday, May 24, 2013
List of Childhood of Famous Americans and World Citizens
Christopher Columbus: Young Explorer
Christopher Columbus was born in Italy in
1451. His father was a weaver, but like most young men living near a seaport,
Columbus looked to the sea to...
$5.99
Leonardo Da Vinci: Young Artist, Writer, and Inventor
Leonardo Da Vinci is best known as the
Renaissance painter who created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. he also made
great contributions as a...
$5.99
Marie Curie: Young Scientist
Marie Curie was a world-renowned scientist who
made many important discoveries, as well as a great teacher and a mother, but
her accomplishments...
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Gandhi: Young Nation Builder
The man we remember simply as Gandhi was born
Mohandas Gandhi in India in 1869. From an early age he was made keenly aware of
the rigid Hindu caste...
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Mother Teresa: Friend to the Poor
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother
Teresa grew up in a small war-torn town in Macedonia. The youngest of three
children, Mother Teresa was...
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Pope John Paul II: Young Man of the Church
Pope John Paul II was born Karol Wojtyla on
May 18, 1920, in Poland. As a child Karol excelled in school -- especially in
religion and literature. He...
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Anne Frank: Young Diarist
In 1933, at the age of four, Anne Frank and
her family fled from the Nazis in Germany and sought safe haven in Amsterdam,
the Netherlands. In 1940,...
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Lady Diana, Princess of Wales: Young Royalty
Diana Spencer grew up to be the princess of
Wales. But when she was a little girl, she did not dream she would become a
princess. When she was still...
Childhood of Famous
Americans
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Henry Ford: Young Man with Ideas
*
John Jacob Astor
* John Deere
* John Smith
* Patrick Henry
* Meriwether Lewis: Boy Explorer
* Allan Pinkerton: Young Detective
* Harry Houdini: Young Magician
* Eugene Field
* Dan Morgan: Wilderness Boy
* George Gershwin
* Lucretia Mott: Girl of Old Nantucket
* Jed Smith: Young
Western Explorer
* John Alden: Young Puritan
* John Wanamaker: Boy Merchant
* Luther Burbank: Boy Wizard
* The Ringling Brothers: Circus Boys
* Osceola Young Seminole Indian
* Robert Peary: Boy of the North
* Black Hawk, Young Sauk Warrior
* John Hancock New England Boy
* Herbert Hoover Boy Engineer
* Elias Howe Inventive Boy
* Babe Didrikson: Girl
Athlete
* Jeff Davis: Confederate Boy
* Cyrus McCormick Farmer Boy
* Lee DeForest
* Abner Doubleday: Young Baseball Pioneer
* George Westinghouse:
Young Inventor
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
* John Burrough: Boy of Field and Stream
* John Fitzgerald Kennedy: America's Youngest
President
* Rachel Jackson: Tennessee Girl
* Tom Edison: Boy Inventor
* Albert Einstein: Young Thinker
* A. P. Giannini: Boy of San Francisco
* Will and Charlie Mayo: Boy Doctors
* Andrew Carnegie: Young Steelmaker
* Elizabeth Blackwell: Girl Doctor
* George Eastman: Young Photographer
* Robert Fulton: Boy Craftsman
* Alec Hamilton: The Little Lion
* Juliette Low: Girl Scout
* Noah Webster: Boy of Words
* Stephen Foster: Boy Minstrel
* Walter Reed: Boy Who Wanted To Know
* Amelia Earhart: Young Aviator
* Dwight D. Eisenhower: Young Military Leader
* Harry S. Truman: Missouri Farm Boy
* Brigham Young: Covered Wagon Boy
* David Farragut: Boy Midshipman
* Douglas MacArthur: Young Protector
* George Dewey: Vermont Boy
* Oliver Hazard Perry: Boy of the Sea
* John Peter Zenger: Young Defender of a
Free Press
* Dan Beard: Boy Scout
* Frances Willard: Girl Crusader
* Kate Douglas Wiggin: The Little
Schoolteacher
* John Audubon: Boy Naturalist
* Mark Twain: Boy of Old Missouri
* Mary Mapes Dodge: Jolly Girl
* William Penn: Friendly Boy
* Dorothea Dix: Girl Reformer
* Maria Mitchell: Girl Astronomer
* Crispus Attucks: Black Leader of Colonial
Patriots
* Martin Luther King, Jr.: Young Man with a
Dream
* James Whitcomb Riley: Young Poet
* Robert E. Lee: Young Confederate
* Dolly Madison: Quaker Girl
* Henry Clay: Young Kentucky Orator
* John Marshall: Boy of Young America
* Susan B. Anthony: Champion of Women's
Rights
* Tom Jackson: Young Stonewall
* Tom Jefferson: Third President of the
United States
* Woodrow Wilson: Boy President
* J. Sterling Morton: Arbor Day Boy
* Robert Goddard: Pioneer Rocket Boy
* F. W. Woolworth: Five and Ten Boy
* George Pullman: Young Sleeping Car Builder
* Katherine Lee Bates: Girl Poet
* Carl Ben Eielson Young Alaskan Pilot
* Cecil B. DeMille
* Vilhjalmur Stefansson: Young Artic
Explorer
* Liliuokalani: Young Hawaiian Queen
* Gail Borden
* Bedford Forest: Boy on Horseback
* Davy Crockett: Young Rifleman
* James Oglethorpe: Young Defender
* Teddy Roosevelt: Young Rough Rider
* Nathaniel Greene
* Pontiac and the Indian Uprising
* William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe
* Lotta Crabtree: Gold Rush Girl
* Lew Wallace
* Matthew Calbraith
Perry
* Bird Girl: Sacagawea
* Pocahontas: Brave Girl
* Dan Webster: Union Boy
* Stephen Decatur: Gallant Boy
* William Bradford: Pilgrim Boy
* Eli Whitney: Boy Mechanic
* John Paul Jones: Salt-Water Boy
* Raphael Semmes: Tidewater Boy
* Samuel Morse
* Sequoyah: Young Cherokee Guide
* Francis Marion: Young Swamp Fox
* John Sevier: Pioneer Boy
* Abe Lincoln: Frontier Boy
* Andy Jackson: Boy Soldier
* Anthony Wayne: Daring Boy
* Ben Franklin: Boy Printer
* Booker T. Washington: Ambitious Boy
* Buffalo Bill: Boy of the Plains
* Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red
Cross
* Daniel Boone: Young Hunter and Tracker
* Francis Scott Key: Maryland Boy
* George Carver: Boy Scientist
* George Custer: Boy of Action
* George Washington: Young Leader
* Israel Putnam: Fearless Boy
* John Fitch: Steamboat Boy
* Kit Carson: Boy Trapper
* Molly Pitcher: Girl Patriot
* Myles Standish: Adventurous Boy
* Nancy Hanks: Kentucky Girl
* Nathan Hale: Puritan Boy
* Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston
* P. T. Barnum: Circus Boy
* Sam Houston: Boy Chiefton
* Sitting Bull: Dakota Boy
* Squanto: Young Indian Hunter
* Tecumseh: Shawnee Boy
* U. S. Grant: Young Horseman
* Virginia Dare: Mystery Girl
* Wilbur and Orville Wright: Boy with Wings
* Zeb Pike: Boy Traveler
* Babe Ruth: One of Baseball's Greatest
* Jim Thorpe: Olympic Champion
* Knute Rockne: Young Athlete
* Lou Gehrig: One of Baseball's Greatest
* Richard Byrd: Boy of the South Pole
* Will Rogers, Jr.: Young Cowboy
* Abigail Adams: Girl of Colonial Days
* Jane Addams: Little Lame Girl
* Jessie Fremont: Girl of Capitol Hill
* Julia Ward Howe: Girl of Old New York
* Louisa Alcott: Girl of Old Boston
* Martha Washington: America's First First
Lady
* Narcissa Whitman: Pioneer Girl
* Joel Chandler Harris: Young Storyteller
* Walter Chrysler: Boy Machinist
* Betsy Ross: Designer of Our Flag
* Eleanor Roosevelt: Fighter for Social
Justice
* Franklin Roosevelt: Boy of the Four
Freedoms
* John Philip Sousa: Marching Boy
* John Quincy Adams: Boy Patriot
* Aleck Bell: Ingenious Boy
* DeWitt Clinton
Harriet Beecher Stowe:
Connecticut Girl
James Monroe: Good
Neighbor Boy
* Peter Stuyvesant: Boy with Wooden Shoes
* Washington Irving:
Boy of Old New York
* Clyde Beatty: Boy Animal Trainer
* George Rogers Clark: Boy of the Old
Northwest
* Helen Keller: From Tragedy to Triumph
* Mary Todd Lincoln: Girl of the Bluegrass
* Simon Kenton: Young Trail Blazer
* Will Clark: Boy in Buckskins
* William Fargo: Boy Mail Carrier
* Zack Taylor: Young Rough and Ready
* Ernie Pyle: Boy From Back Home
* Ethan Allen
* James Fenimore Cooper: Leatherstocking
Boy
* Jeb Stuart: Boy in the Saddle
* Jim Bowie: Boy with a Hunting Knife
• Jim Bridger
Scripture Hero link for devotional, bios, etc.
This is a great link from my friend, RaNae...
You could use it for ideas for devotional, biographies, leadership, or history.
The RedHeaded Hostess scripture hero bookmarks
Link to page where she tells how to use it:
You could use it for ideas for devotional, biographies, leadership, or history.
The RedHeaded Hostess scripture hero bookmarks
Link to page where she tells how to use it:
Leadership Academy - Book and Biography Ideas
BOOK IDEAS
From Angie Moore: "Perhaps in Core we could study great and important people, events and civil discourse/communication. (I have a great little book I love on civil discourse. It would be fun to role play and learn). Then in journeyman we would study the constitution, some of the Uncle Eric books and do some simulations or something to make it more real to them: Here is the Uncle Eric books in The Law and Politics set
Evaluating Books: What Would Thomas Jefferson Think About This? (Revolutionary War period or Early Modern Age period)The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens
TJEd for Teens
"The Element" by Ken Robinson
BIOGRAPHY IDEAS
Thanks, Marni, for putting the following together:
I put this together for my own benefit, but thought others could use it as well. Feel free to give suggestions for more! I got some excellent ideas and information using the book "Lessons from Great Lives" by Sterling Sill (the older version with no co-author has several more biographies than the newer version). Elbert Hubbard's "Little Journeys into the Homes of Great..." series seems to have some great information as well, but I haven't had a chance to read about very many people there. Another great source is "10 Great Souls I Want to Meet in Heaven" by S. Michael Wilcox. In planning for the presentation I've gone to other sources as well, of course.
The dates listed are when they were used in the original Vanguard group. The first two years we didn't use the history periods, but I'm over Leadership Academy for the Kaysville, UT branch, and we decided that under the Leadership Lens it was less important to have someone from the history period than it is to have someone that is a great example of the principle. Still, it's nice to have it organized this way.
As you'll see, the Middle Ages are pretty sparse! Help? :) When I was creating this, it was because I was studying all these great people and didn't want to forget about them as Vanguard possibilities. Apparently I need to study about more people in the Middle Ages.
ANCIENT HISTORY (to the 5TH Century)
Esther, David, Moroni (Apr. 2010)
Augustine of Hippo (Apr. 2012)
God –
Socrates (Oct. 2011)
Jesus Christ (leadership, meaningful life, happiness...everything :)?)
Apostles
Liberty –
Buddha (Feb. 2012)
Leadership –
Confucius (Jan. 2012)
Meaningful Life/Happiness –
Job (also work/property)
Mormon (Sept. 2011)
Society –
Shiprah and Puah (midwives in the Bible, in "Women of the OT" book)
Daughters of Zelophehad (in Bible, in "Women of the OT" book), also liberty
Sons of Mosiah (security vs. freedom for others)
Jesus (Mar. 2012), also leadership
Work/Property -
Alexander (Nov. 2011)
MIDDLE AGES (5TH to the 15TH Centuries)
Citizenship –Mormon (also leadership), Sir Thomas More
God –Sir Thomas More
Joan of Arc (also citizenship, liberty)
Martin Luther
Liberty –Christopher Columbus: (exploration)
Leadership –Pope Gregory I (or Gregory the Great) (like all people, he had his imperfections, yet his goal in leadership was not selfish, which captures the spirit of this month); Sir Thomas More
Meaningful Life/Happiness –Moroni (of the end of the Book of Mormon)
Da Vinci
Society –Sir Thomas More
Muhammad (also Meaningful Life/Happiness)
Work/Property -Tyndale and the translation of the Bible
(Sir Thomas More was in the 1500's so could work here or the previous unit)...see Ensign Feb 2013, with focus on integrity. Citizenship –
Ben Franklin (also liberty, life/happiness)
God –
Liberty –
Regulas the Roman
Leadership –
Horatio Nelson (also citizenship)
Napoleon Bonaparte
Meaningful Life/Happiness –
Nathanial Bowditch (Sept. 2010)
Society –
George Washington (also leadership)
Work/Property -
Antonio Stratavari (Keith Henderson makes violins)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Handel (Nov. 2010), also God
Sir Isaac Newton
MODERN AGE (about 1850 to the present)
Citizenship –
Winston Churchill (liberty, leadership, work)
Baden-Powell (leadership)
Harriet Tubman (Apr. 2011)
Chiune Sugihara
Corrie Ten Boom
Joseph Smith (Jan. 2010)
Mother Theresa (Jan. 2011)
Chiune Sugihara
Liberty –
Abraham Lincoln (leadership, life/happiness - Sept. 2009)
Booker T. Washington (work, security vs. freedom)
Olaudah Equiano (Oct. 2010)
John Wooden
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Gandhi (Feb. 2011), also God, liberty, citizenship
Meaningful Life/Happiness –
Sterling Sill
Hellen Keller and Anne Sullivan (Sept. 2010)
Gladys Aylward
Society –
Hannah Szenes (Mar. 2011)
Irena Sendler
Dr. Livingstone
Work/Property -
Madame Curie
John Audobon
Jacques Cousteau
John Muir
2009-2012 Lens Record Overview
Link for more downloadable/edit-able version:
Lens Record
Lens Record
Vanguard Youth by Lens (Thanks, Marni, for pooling this info together!)
THEMES
2009-2010
September – Life and Pursuit of
Happiness
October – Liberty
November – Property
December-Pursuit of Happiness
January – Worshipping God
February – Leadership
March – Society – security vs. freedom: Where to draw the line?
April – Citizenship
2010-2011
September – Meaningful Life and
Pursuit of Happiness
October – Liberty
November – Property – value of
work and ownership
January – God – Duty to God,
Finding Your Mission
February – Leadership
March – Society – what is the
government responsible for and what are the people responsible for?
April - Citizenship
2011-2012
September – Meaningful Life and
Pursuit of Happiness
October – Role of “natural law”
and God in society
November – Property – lessons
learned through work
January – Service-Oriented
Leadership
February – Liberty – What is true
freedom? Who decides that?
March – Society
April – Citizenship – role of a
good citizen
LEADERSHIP
(numbers listed are principles
from “5000 Year Leap,” books were mentioned in the inspirements)
2009-2010
September – MLK, Jr., “Life’s
Pathway,” Elder Eyring’s April 2009 message, “Door in the Wall”
October – Thomas Jefferson, “Red
Scarf Girl”
November – Lincoln, “Little
Britches”
December-Pres. Hinckley, “Seven
Wonders of Sassafrass Springs”
January – Joseph Smith, #4, “Boy
in Striped Pajamas”
February – George Washington, #3,
“The Whipping Boy”
March – #12, 13, 16-18, 19, 21,
“Common Sense” by Thomas Paine, Bastiat’s “The Law” and “Essays on Political
Economy”
April - #10, 11, “Who is
responsible to determine what is right, and how can they do what needs to be
done?” Esther, David, Moroni, etc., “
2010-2011
September – Hellen Keller, Anne
Sullivan, Nathaniel Bowditch, #1, 6-8, 22-24, 28
October – Olaudah Equiano, #2, 8,
9, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
November – Handel, #7, 14, 15,
27, “Up from Slavery” by Booker T. Washington
January – Mother Theresa, #4, 5,
“The Alchemist”
February – Gandhi, #3,
“Autobiography of Gandhi”
March – Hannah Szenes, #10, 13,
19, “Proper Role of Government,” Bastiat’s “The Law” and “Essays on Political
Economy”
April – Harriet Tubman, #11,
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
2011-2012
September – Mormon
October – Socrates, #4, “The
Apology”
November - Alexander
January – Confucius, #3, “Core
and Crust of Leadership”
February – Buddha, “Jataka Tales”
March – Jesus Christ, #13
April – Augustine of Hippo, #10,
“Confessions of Saint Augustine”
MATH/SCIENCE
2009-2010
September – Pythagorus
October – Archimedes
November – Sir Isaac Newton
December-Beginner’s
Guide-Universe Ch. 1
January – Hypatia
February – Amalie Emmy Noether
and Algebra
March – Evariste Galois - algebra
April – John Napier
2010-2011
September – Fermat, Andrew Wiles
October – Marie Curie, Galen,
Pasteur
November – Edison, Franklin
January – Eratosthenes
February – Da Vinci, Sarah
Flannery
March – Da Vinci
April - Pascal
2011-2012
September – Archimedes
October – Thales and the
Egyptians
November – Pythagoras and early
Greeks
January – Ancient roots of math –
abacus, Lui Hui, Brahmagupta, Arabhata I
February – Zhang Heng
March – Mayan Mathematics
April - Aristotle
HISTORY
2009-2010
September – South America: Inca/Aztec/Maya
October – Buddha (Asia)
November – Native American tribes (North America)
December-Mansa Musa (Africa)
January – Romans (Europe)
February – Joan of Arc (Europe)
March –James Cook (Oceania)
April – Ernest Shackleton (Antarctica)
2010-2011
September – Simon Bolivar, Jose
De San Martin
October – Egyptian Pharaoh
November – Lewis and Clark
January – Chinese Dynasty
February – Celts, Franks
March – Russian Czars (lots of
“Greats” and “Terribles”)
April – James Cook
2011-2012
September – Ether
October – Battle of Troy and the
Olympics
November – Caesar, Mark Anthony,
Augustus Caesar, Ciscero
January – Shi Huangdi and the Qin
Dynasty
February – David
March – 3 and 4 Nephi
April – Joseph of Egypt
Thursday, May 9, 2013
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