Wed, Mar 21 - Jeremiah Movie

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is your Unit 9 Test, the study guide is posted online.
- Students have until Friday, Mar 23 to retake Memory Quiz 9a

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
- Notebook Check: This is tomorrow. See RenWeb & ensure it is in order before class
- Devotion 4 Presentations: Remember when you present.
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal 9-10: Read Jeremiah 36:4-8, 15b-18, & 20-28 (pg 565) & answer:
- What does Jeremiah write on the scroll?
- - The Word of God
- What does the king do to Jeremiah’s scroll?
- - Cuts it & burns it
- After the king’s action, what does God then tell Jeremiah to do?
- - Write the scroll again!
- What does that tell us about how God cares for the messages He wants us to hear?
- - It relates to how God protected the 'Book of the Law,' found by Josiah's men
- - God was very deliberate in communicating His Word to us
- - God can not be tricked & knows how to protect His word
- - Both of these stories show that God cares about His Word & makes sure it is communicated to us.
- - These are some of the reasons I (Mr. Ellis) trust the Scriptures as accurately being God's Word; for just as God ensured His Word was protected during the reigns of the evil kings before Josiah & just as God ensured His Word was re-written after the king cut & burned the scroll, so I believe God protected His Word throughout the generations, until the final form that we have today.
- - - Check out some books that look at the reliability of the Bible & you'll see there is no book in existence quite like it that has survived so long with so little change! It is quite marvelous what God has done!

Jeremiah Video: After the journal we continued through this.

Tue, Mar 20 - Jeremiah Movie

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is your Unit 9 Test, the study guide is posted online.
- Students have until Friday, Mar 23 to retake Memory Quiz 9a

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
- Devotion 4: Due TONIGHT, by 11:59pm, posted on TurnItIn.com. Book options are: Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, & Malachi
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal 9-9: Read Jeremiah 4:22 (pg 537) & answer:
"My people are fools; they do not know me. They are senseless children; they have no understanding. They are skilled in doing evil; they know not how to do good."
- How are the Israelites described?
- -Fools & senseless children that are skilled at doing evil & don't know how to do good.
- What are they skilled at?
- -Doing evil
- What do they not know how to do?
- -What is good.
- Jr. Highers can fall into this same trap: Explain how they can…
- - Grow & mature out of being like this.
- - Grow & mature to keep from falling into this.

Jeremiah Video: After the journal we continued through this.

Mon, Mar 19 - Jeremiah Movie

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is your Unit 9 Test, the study guide is posted online.
- Students have until Friday, Mar 23 to retake Memory Quiz 9a
- Students have until Tuesday, Mar 20,to retake Unit 8 Test

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
- Devotion 4: Due TOMORROW, by 11:59pm, posted on TurnItIn.com. Book options are: Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, & Malachi
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal 9-8:
- First) On your Unit Handout Addition, page 68:
- - Read through it and
- - Answer the questions 1-14
- Second)
- - Take out the pink paper (for the Jeremiah Movie)
- - Answer the questions at the bottom!
- You may do these things with your neighbors.

Jeremiah Video: After the journal we began to work through this video with the notes worksheet.

The following notes are posted early for those who are studying now.

Jeremiah Video: Here are some key points you should know from the packet, have them highlighted/underlined
- Day 1 (according to the worksheet title)
- - Josiah's Reforms: Temple Repairs & Celebrating the Passover
- - Hilkiah is Josiah's high priest
- - Nebuchadnezzar is king of Babylon
- - Jeremiah has a vision of an Almond Tree
- Day 2
- - Jehoiakim (son of Josiah) becomes the new king
- - Baruch becomes Jeremiah's scribe & friend
- - Jeremiah sends a scroll to the king, the king tears & burns it up
- - Jehoiachin (Jehoiakim's son) becomes the new king
- - Nebuchadnezzar takes over & makes Mattaniah the new king (changes his name to Zedekiah)
- Day 3
- - Nebuchadnezzar takes the best young men & treasures from Judah, then taxes Judah tribute payments
- - Jeremiah enters the kings courts wearing shackles
- - - Hananiah, a false prophet breaks the shackles off him
- - - Jeremiah predicts he will be dead in one year
- - Jeremiah is throne into prison
- Day 4:
- - Jeremiah is throne into a cistern (not a prison--it's a big hole in the ground that collects rain water to drink during a drought; it just had mud in it when Jeremiah was throne in)
- - Ebed-Melech saves Jeremiah from the cistern
- - Jeremiah purchase a field of Anathoth from his cousin
- - - Think of how odd this is, Jeremiah declares God will destroy Judah! Why by a field?
- - - This is Symbolic Action that shows God will bring Judah back to their land in the future
- - Jeremiah talks about a New Covenant that will come & be established.

FUTURE NOTES: Posted to help out...

Journal 9-10: Read Jeremiah 4:22 (pg 537) & answer:
- How are the Israelites described?
- What are they skilled at?
-- What do they not know how to do?
- Jr. Highers can fall into this same trap: Explain how they can…
- - Grow & mature out of being like this.
- - Grow & mature to keep from falling into this.

Journal 9-11: Read Jeremiah 36:4-8, 15b-18, & 20-28 (pg 565) & answer:
- What does Jeremiah write on the scroll? The Word of God
- What does the king do to Jeremiah’s scroll? Cuts it & burns it
- After the king’s action, what does God then tell Jeremiah to do? Write the scroll again!
- What does that tell us about how God cares for the messages He wants us to hear?
- - It relates to how God protected the 'Book of the Law,' found by Josiah's men
- - God was very deliberate in communicating His Word to us
- - God can not be tricked & knows how to protect His word
- - Both of these stories show that God cares about His Word & makes sure it is communicated to us.
- - These are some of the reasons I (Mr. Ellis) trust the Scriptures as accurately being God's Word; for just as God ensured His Word was protected during the reigns of the evil kings before Josiah & just as God ensured His Word was re-written after the king cut & burned the scroll, so I believe God protected His Word throughout the generations, until the final form that we have today.
- - - Check out some books that look at the reliability of the Bible & you'll see there is no book in existence quite like it that has survived so long with so little change! It is quite marvelous what God has done!

In-Class Activity: Two Choices: Keep busy with one or both!
- Read through Jeremiah 29-31
- - Write a 3-5 sentence reflection for each chapter
- Read through Lamentations (pg 581)
- - At the end of each chapter write a reflection of your thoughts on that book
- - - What seems odd?
- - - What was expected?
- - - What was depressing?
- - - What was encouraging?

Fri, Mar 16 - Mem Quiz 9b

Next Quiz/Test: Today was Memory Quiz 9b: Lamentations 3:22-26
- Next Friday is your Unit 9 Test, the study guide is posted online.
- Students have until Friday, Mar 23 to retake Memory Quiz 9a
- Students have until Tuesday, Mar 20,to retake Unit 8 Test

Handouts:
- Jeremiah Movie Handout (Pink)
- Memory Quiz 9a

Reminders:
- Devotion 4: Due Tuesday, March 20th. Book options are: Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, & Malachi
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal: None given, students studied for their quiz.

After the quiz we finished the Jonah video & started the Jeremiah video (with which a worksheet was given)

Thu, Mar 15 - Jeremiah Movie

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is Memory Quiz 9b: Lamentations 3:22-26
- Students have until Tuesday, Mar 20,to retake Unit 8 Test

Handouts: None given

Reminders:
- Devotion 4: Due Tuesday, March 20th. Book options are: Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, & Malachi
- - Watch out for these common mistakes & please see TurnItIn.com Grademarks on your Devotion 3 for your own specific areas to improve!
- - - Verses: Not in a row, Too Many, Too Few
- - - General Theme & Main Points: Just Title, Only Facts
- - - Supporting Details: Not Outlined, Too short Explain/Apply, Missing Sections
- - - Questions: Too Simple (simple 1-word answers) or too Reflective ("What do you think")
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal 9-7:
- On your Unit Handout Addition, page 67: Read through it and answer the questions 1-8
- Then read Jeremiah 9:23-24 (pg 542) & answer on back:
- - What are some other things you could boast about?
- - Why is it not good to boast about these things?
- - What do these verses say we should boast about?
- - What do you think this means?
- - What is the benefit of boasting only in this?

Random Jeremiah things 2 Know:
- What is the “Branch of David”?
- - This is a nick-name Jeremiah uses to refer to the Messiah
- - Why? Because he would come from the 'family tree' (a 'Branch' from the tree...) of David.
- - Jesus' parents, Mary & Joseph, both came through the family line of David, the Jews were VERY strict in keeping record of ones family. In 70 AD, though, 40 years after the time of Jesus, these records were destroyed by the Roman invasion. So, interestingly, after that point they could not 'prove' the Christ was from the line of
- What does a cistern have to do with Jeremiah?
- - He is thrown into it
- - A cistern is a pit, dug in the ground to get rainwater

Jeremiah Video: At this point we began to watch the Jeremiah Video

Wed, Mar 14 - End of Kings, Chronicles Comment

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is Memory Quiz 9b: Lamentations 3:22-26
- Students have until Tuesday, Mar 20,to retake Unit 8 Test

Handouts: Jeremiah Handout (White packet, 3 pages, 66, 67, 68

Reminders:
- Devotion 4: Due Tuesday, March 20th. Book options are: Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, & Malachi
- - Watch out for these common mistakes & please see TurnItIn.com Grademarks on your Devotion 3 for your own specific areas to improve!
- - - Verses: Not in a row, Too Many, Too Few
- - - General Theme & Main Points: Just Title, Only Facts
- - - Supporting Details: Not Outlined, Too short Explain/Apply, Missing Sections
- - - Questions: Too Simple (simple 1-word answers) or too Reflective ("What do you think")
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal 9-6:
- On your Unit Handout Addition, page 66:
- - Read through it and answer the questions 1-3
- - - 1) What is it that brings about our punishment?
- - - 2) Why should we fear the Lord?
- - - 3) What causes people to turn away from the Lord?
- Then read Jeremiah 1:4-5 (p533) & answer on your notes:
- - How does it make you feel that God intimately knew you before you were even born?
- - How do you think this should affect how you respond or relate to God?
- - Having a hard time answering this?
- - - Think about some other people who know you really well, like a best friend
- - - How do you relate to them differently from those who only know you a little?

A Reflection on Kings:
- For Us...
- - We are held responsible for our actions!
- - Dependence on other gods leads to death
- - - For individuals & nations
- - - Our trust must be on God alone
- - Faithfulness to God is rewarded w/blessings
- - Disobedience to God is rewarded w/God’s judgment!
- - When we fail, we must renew our commitment (or covenant) to the LORD
- God is...
- - Sovereign over all history
- - Faithful to His word & promises (of blessings & curses!)

Kings & Chronicles Correspondence:
- Very similar story lines
- - A ‘new look’ at ‘old history’
- - Seeing God’s work in a new way

- A Change in Endings
- - Remember how did 2 Kings end...
- - 36:15-21) 2 Chronicles ends by reminding them about how God warned Judah of His judgment (God’s Messengers, the Prophets) & summarizes Judah’s Desolation
- - 36:22-23) But then this adds something new!
- - - God stirs King Cyrus' heart to send the Jews back to their land & have them rebuild the temple.
- - - Cyrus is the king of Persia (the kingdom that took over Babylon); he recognizes in his declaration that it was God who got him his kingdom.
- - - This was all in according to Jeremiah's prophesy, that the Jews would only be in captivity for 70 years.

Jonah: With extra class time we continued in this movie.

Tue, Mar 13 - Judah's End

Next Quiz/Test: Friday is Memory Quiz 9b: Lamentations 3:22-26
- Students have until Tuesday, Mar 20,to retake Unit 8 Test

Handouts:
- Unit 8 Test
- Devotion 4 Presentation Schedule (yellow)

Reminders:
- Devotion 4: Due Tuesday, March 20th. Book options are: Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezra, Haggai, Zechariah, Esther, Nehemiah, & Malachi
- - Watch out for these common mistakes & please see TurnItIn.com Grademarks on your Devotion 3 for your own specific areas to improve!
- - - Verses: Not in a row, Too Many, Too Few
- - - General Theme & Main Points: Just Title, Only Facts
- - - Supporting Details: Not Outlined, Too short Explain/Apply, Missing Sections
- - - Questions: Too Simple (simple 1-word answers) or too Reflective ("What do you think")
- Service Hours: Three things are due on April 16 (the day after Easter Break) for this: Essay, Record Form, Community Service Evaluation Form

Instructional Time: Unit 9: 2 Kings 21-25, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, & Lamentations
Journal 9-5: Read Psalm 20:7
- In Judah’s hard times, many kings trusted in their own armies or in Egypt as a strong ally. Few trusted in God.
- In your hard times, what do you usually trust in?
- - Yourself (your strength, brains, cunning, etc…)?
- - Other people (family & friends) or other things?
- - God?
- Explain how you trust in this/these—how do you demonstrate that trust?
- Why is trusting in God is a good idea?
- If you have more time, describe some of these hard situations & what you learned through them.

Egyptian Control of Judah: 2 Kings 23
- Jehoahaz made king by Judah
- - An evil king, ruled 3 months, & then…
- - Captured by Pharaoh & forced into labor
- - He died in Egypt
- Egypt imposes a heavy tax on Judah
- 34-37) Egypt makes Eliakim the new king
- - Changing his name to Jehoiakim
- - Also an evil king, ruled 11 years

Babylonian Control of Judah: 2 Kings 24
- 1-4) Babylon invades Judah
- - Jehoiakim became its vassal, but then…
- - He changed his mind & rebelled!
- - God sends many raiders to destroy Judah
- Jehoiachin becomes king of Judah
- - An evil king, ruled 3 months
- - Babylon invades, Jehoiachin is imprisoned
- - 13-14) Jerusalem’s 1st looting
- - - All but the poorest, were exiled
- Babylon makes Mattaniah, renamed ‘Zedekiah,’ the new king
- - An evil king, ruled 11 years
- - V20: Why’d this all happen? Because of Manasseh's evil against God
- - Zedekiah rebels…

The Exile: 2 Kings 25
- Read 2 Kings 24:20b to 25:1-7
- - What caused Nebuchadnezzar to besiege Jerusalem? Zedekiah's rebellion
- - What was extremely severe in the city? The famine; they'd been under siege for 2 years!
- - When did Jerusalem’s army run away? In the night (hoping to slip past the Babylonians)
- - What happened to Judah’s king, Zedekiah? He was captured & taken to Babylon & his eyes were gauged out, just after...
- - What happened to his sons? They were killed in front of their father, the king
- 2K 25:8-21) Jerusalem’s final fall
- - The wall is destroyed
- - The buildings plundered & then burned
- - Many are executed, even more are exiled
- Thus ends the nation of Judah.

During the Exile: 2 Kings 25
- 22-26) Babylon makes Gedaliah Judah’s governor
- - Some didn’t like this… See vv25-26
- - Gedaliah is assassinated
- - Many flee to Egypt (Back where they started before God’s work?)
- 27-30) Yet then it ends with a message of hope…
- - Jehoiachin is released from prison & honored
- - Could the king & Judah someday be restored?