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« on: November 07, 2004, 11:38:49 PM »
(Apologies to anyone who has no clue what I'm talking about. Mormon-ness follows.)
My friend Daryl and I are giving the lesson for tomorrow night's FHE, on The Arts (with capitals). Daryl is a graphic artist. The FHE leaders have been very vague on what we're supposed to be doing as far as the lesson goes, but for my part of the activity, we're going to create a picture book using the same method we used in my picture book class, which is a lot of fun. Using a common folk tale (in this case, Little Red Riding Hood) as our text, we're going to illustrate scenes using construction paper cut into the most basic shapes. It works really well as a way to understand picture principles in many illustrations, not just picture books.
Okay, so the activity is going to be a lot of fun. But it's the lesson I'm having trouble with. Daryl said he'd be talking about graphic design, and that he'd let me go first (yay). In talking with the FHE leader, I had a few ideas, but they pretty much had to do with my photography, and my activity is picture books, so I was thinking that perhaps it would be better if I spoke on the book end of things.
Any ideas? My original idea was to talk about a couple of pictures that I've taken of my nephew at about Sunbeam age, how seeing those pictures makes me think of the Savior because of the associations in my mind with "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam," and the sun on my nephew's golden hair, etc.
Good stories convey universal truth, I think. Is there a way of tying this in to a gospel principle? Any feelings you guys have about the stories you read (any age level) that brings this closer to home? I've got some ideas, but not so clearly articulated as the photography idea, and this is tomorrow night.
My friend Daryl and I are giving the lesson for tomorrow night's FHE, on The Arts (with capitals). Daryl is a graphic artist. The FHE leaders have been very vague on what we're supposed to be doing as far as the lesson goes, but for my part of the activity, we're going to create a picture book using the same method we used in my picture book class, which is a lot of fun. Using a common folk tale (in this case, Little Red Riding Hood) as our text, we're going to illustrate scenes using construction paper cut into the most basic shapes. It works really well as a way to understand picture principles in many illustrations, not just picture books.
Okay, so the activity is going to be a lot of fun. But it's the lesson I'm having trouble with. Daryl said he'd be talking about graphic design, and that he'd let me go first (yay). In talking with the FHE leader, I had a few ideas, but they pretty much had to do with my photography, and my activity is picture books, so I was thinking that perhaps it would be better if I spoke on the book end of things.
Any ideas? My original idea was to talk about a couple of pictures that I've taken of my nephew at about Sunbeam age, how seeing those pictures makes me think of the Savior because of the associations in my mind with "Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam," and the sun on my nephew's golden hair, etc.
Good stories convey universal truth, I think. Is there a way of tying this in to a gospel principle? Any feelings you guys have about the stories you read (any age level) that brings this closer to home? I've got some ideas, but not so clearly articulated as the photography idea, and this is tomorrow night.