A. High Lights of your week
B. So That's What That's For ...
B. So That's What That's For ...
That tiny poicket on your blue jeans ...
... Is for your pocket watch. Well, maybe not yours, but the cowboys who made blue jeans famous in the 1800s were plumb grateful for it. Typically, watches were carried on chains and worn in waistcoats, but hard field labor made that a lot less practical. Outdoors, the "watch pocket" on any pair of jeams did just the trick - even after the watches moved to the wrist. This extra pouch has served many functions, evident in its many titles," the Levi Stratuss website reminds us: "frontier pocket, coin pocket, match pocket, and ticket pocket, to name a few."
C. Short Story: Father's Day - A Day to Honor Fatherhood
Father's Day is a holiday observed in the United States to honor fathers, fatherhood and other paternal figures like grandfathers, stepfathers, and uncles. It is observed on the third Sunday in June.
In the early 20th century there was a mining accident in West Virginia that killed almost 400 men. A push for a day to remember the men killed, who were mostly husbands and fathers was the start of a push for a national holiday. This was in 1908. It wasn't until 1972, however, that Father's Day was recognized by law as a national holiday. This is due in part to the fact that people were resistant to what they saw as another overly invented holiday meant to just make people spend money. It wasn't seen as a way to remember the dead or to honor living fathers and father figures. People weren't entirely wrong. Organizations representing men's clothing manufacturers put in a lot of money for the holiday to become popular.
Like Mother's Day, it indeed is a holiday that has become highly commercialized. There are greeting cards to mark the day and stores advertise gifts for Dad. These gifts traditionally include electronics, ties, and tools. In schools, children often make cards and other gifts. Father's Day is not a federal holiday even though it is widely celebrated. Some of the ways Father's Day is celebrated is with meals, especially barbecues since the holiday falls at the beginning of the summer.
D. Word Power Choose the correct definition and make a sentence witht he word.
1. Kafkaesque a: nightmarishly complex b:gigantic c: left-wing
2. atrophy a: waste away b: wina prize c:speak out against
3. knavish a:sticky b: sharply honed d: deceitful or dishonest
4. legalese a:passage of laws b:strict rules c: legal language
5. patriarch a:Roman valult b: father figure c:homeland
6. obsolescnet a: teenage b: quite fat c:goint out of use
7. solarium a: sunroom b: pribate nook c: answer to a problem
E. Bible Story: 2 Kings 5:18-27
18 But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”
19 “Go in peace,” Elisha said.
After Naaman had traveled some distance, 20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
21 So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.
22 “Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent[d] of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
23 “By all means, take two talents,” said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi. 24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left.
25 When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?”
“Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.
26 But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves? 27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.
C. Short Story: Father's Day - A Day to Honor Fatherhood
Father's Day is a holiday observed in the United States to honor fathers, fatherhood and other paternal figures like grandfathers, stepfathers, and uncles. It is observed on the third Sunday in June.
In the early 20th century there was a mining accident in West Virginia that killed almost 400 men. A push for a day to remember the men killed, who were mostly husbands and fathers was the start of a push for a national holiday. This was in 1908. It wasn't until 1972, however, that Father's Day was recognized by law as a national holiday. This is due in part to the fact that people were resistant to what they saw as another overly invented holiday meant to just make people spend money. It wasn't seen as a way to remember the dead or to honor living fathers and father figures. People weren't entirely wrong. Organizations representing men's clothing manufacturers put in a lot of money for the holiday to become popular.
Like Mother's Day, it indeed is a holiday that has become highly commercialized. There are greeting cards to mark the day and stores advertise gifts for Dad. These gifts traditionally include electronics, ties, and tools. In schools, children often make cards and other gifts. Father's Day is not a federal holiday even though it is widely celebrated. Some of the ways Father's Day is celebrated is with meals, especially barbecues since the holiday falls at the beginning of the summer.
D. Word Power Choose the correct definition and make a sentence witht he word.
1. Kafkaesque a: nightmarishly complex b:gigantic c: left-wing
2. atrophy a: waste away b: wina prize c:speak out against
3. knavish a:sticky b: sharply honed d: deceitful or dishonest
4. legalese a:passage of laws b:strict rules c: legal language
5. patriarch a:Roman valult b: father figure c:homeland
6. obsolescnet a: teenage b: quite fat c:goint out of use
7. solarium a: sunroom b: pribate nook c: answer to a problem
2. atrophy a: waste away b: wina prize c:speak out against
3. knavish a:sticky b: sharply honed d: deceitful or dishonest
4. legalese a:passage of laws b:strict rules c: legal language
5. patriarch a:Roman valult b: father figure c:homeland
6. obsolescnet a: teenage b: quite fat c:goint out of use
7. solarium a: sunroom b: pribate nook c: answer to a problem
E. Bible Story: 2 Kings 5:18-27
18 But may the Lord forgive your servant for this one thing: When my master enters the temple of Rimmon to bow down and he is leaning on my arm and I have to bow there also—when I bow down in the temple of Rimmon, may the Lord forgive your servant for this.”
19 “Go in peace,” Elisha said.
After Naaman had traveled some distance, 20 Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said to himself, “My master was too easy on Naaman, this Aramean, by not accepting from him what he brought. As surely as the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.”
21 So Gehazi hurried after Naaman. When Naaman saw him running toward him, he got down from the chariot to meet him. “Is everything all right?” he asked.
22 “Everything is all right,” Gehazi answered. “My master sent me to say, ‘Two young men from the company of the prophets have just come to me from the hill country of Ephraim. Please give them a talent[d] of silver and two sets of clothing.’”
23 “By all means, take two talents,” said Naaman. He urged Gehazi to accept them, and then tied up the two talents of silver in two bags, with two sets of clothing. He gave them to two of his servants, and they carried them ahead of Gehazi. 24 When Gehazi came to the hill, he took the things from the servants and put them away in the house. He sent the men away and they left.
25 When he went in and stood before his master, Elisha asked him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?”
“Your servant didn’t go anywhere,” Gehazi answered.
26 But Elisha said to him, “Was not my spirit with you when the man got down from his chariot to meet you? Is this the time to take money or to accept clothes—or olive groves and vineyards, or flocks and herds, or male and female slaves? 27 Naaman’s leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever.” Then Gehazi went from Elisha’s presence and his skin was leprous—it had become as white as snow.
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