Enrichment Activities You may use one or more of the following activities any time during the lesson or as a review, summary, or challenge.
1. Explain that when Joseph Smith translated the Book of Mormon, he said the words out loud, and his scribe wrote the words down. Sometimes Joseph and the scribe were separated by a divider and could not see each other. Put a divider in the middle of a classroom table or the floor (for example, two children could hold a small blanket or sheet or a large piece of heavy paper). Have a child sit on one side of the divider and slowly read a short verse from the Book of Mormon while a child sitting on the other side of the divider writes down what is being read. Then have the scribe read what he or she wrote so the child reading the scripture can be sure it was written correctly. (You may want to have more than one scribe so all children who want to participate can do so.)
That said, with the Book of Mormon, we are not dealing with a civilization with no written record. What we are dealing with is a written record with no civilization. (Runtu, Feb 2015)
Reading that, I was like the rustic in the classic Székely/Hungarian joke: He says, standing in the zoo before the giraffe: - No, there is no such animal!
I am sorry if it sounds different in any non-hungarian languge...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
How many Christian faiths are this dishonest in terms of omissions? I can remember being very dissappointed in a member for believing a hat in a rock was the mode of translation.
The Church education system is just absolutely disgusting. I am so disappointed that no one has the courage to change this garbage.
Why isn't anyone commenting on this exercise explicitly teaching a tight translation method?
As a side note, did anyone else notice how you can remove the comma from the thread title to make a commentary? "How the Book of Mormon was translated for 8 year olds."