Wednesday, 1/7/15: Psalms and Such

* Open

• Roots (copy, define, and add example words for each)
• macr, macer: lean
• magn: great

• Review journals

* Notes

• A History of Literature (read the first two pages)
• What is the first poem of all time?
• What is its subject?
• Why don't we have more poems and historical data from the earliest periods of civilized history? 
• Who composed the first five books of the Bible?

• How does one read a Psalm?
• Slowly savor, as you would any good poem.
• Feel the emotion. 
• Consider the ideas.
• Is there a back story?
• Meditate on the lines. 
• Pray them back to the Father. 
• Don't look for rhymes.
• Parallelism in the Psalms
• Note each type of parallelism in your notes and provide one example for each.

Journal 16: Psalm Study

•  Psalm 19
• Please find, copy, and identify five examples of parallelism in this Psalm. 

  If you finish early, please work on your coastal poem.  

HW: Journal 16

Young David Plays for Saul, the Tormented King