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Five Foundational
Notebooks:
It is our
opinion that every child should leave home with five notebooks.
These notebooks will set priorities and give order to his education;
they will provide a sense of completion when he graduates from childhood
to adulthood; and they will stand as a witness of his character and his
testimony to his family, his peers, and his posterity.
These notebooks are:
The Plan of Happiness Notebook
The Language of The Fathers Notebook
The Liberty Notebook
The Personal History Notebook
The Family History Notebook
The Plan of Happiness Notebook is explained below. Information on
the other books will be posted at a later date.
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The Plan of
Happiness Notebook |
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Thank you for bringing this great idea
to us. Not only is this a great idea for organizing our gospel study,
but also I have been wondering how to relate every subject to the
gospel. Using the plan we can study biology, astronomy, math, geology,
the importance of planning and organizing, reading and its importance in
gospel study, what is the significance of Christ being call The Word and
how that relates to reading, history and how it all works in Heavenly Father's
plan or Satan's ploys. It seems to me it covers everything.
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Until recent years,
Seminary and Institute teachers attended a Symposium at BYU each August in
preparation for the upcoming school year. In 1993 President Packer spoke
to the teachers about the importance of presenting a brief outline of the course
material during the first day or two of class. That overview would
orient the students and give them a place to connect the isolated pieces
of information they would later learn.
Then he gave
them an "assignment" to prepare a brief outline of The Great
Place of Happiness. He
assured them that the task would be more difficult than it might seem and
that they should expect it to take months.
We recognize that
President Packer has given an assignment in which there is great power, and we
suggest that it be taken up by every parent and every child in the church,
especially every homeschooler. We also suggest that each person record his
own overview in a notebook to be added to over the years. We believe this
will become the foundational exercise and the foundational framework of a
Saintly Education.
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The Great Plan of Happiness Notebook:
an exciting project for homeschool families
The
text of
President Packer's
address to the
CES Symposium
Ideas
for Notebook Pages
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