Religious Education
Freed to Live Like Jesus
Lent/Easter – Year 7
OVERARCHING LEARNING OUTCOMES
1. Students use language to understand, develop and communicate ideas and information and interact with others. / 2. Students select, integrate and apply numerical and spatial concepts and techniques. / 3. Students recognise when and what information is needed, locate and obtain it from a range of sources and evaluate, use and share it with others. / 4. Students select, use and adapt technologies. / 5. Students describe and reason about patterns, structures and relationships in order to understand, interpret, justify and make predictions. / 6. Students visualise consequences, think laterally, recognise opportunity and potential and are prepared to test options. / 7. Students understand and appreciate the physical, biological and technological. World and have the knowledge and skills to make decisions in relation to it. / 8. . Students understand their cultural, geographic and historic contexts and have the knowledge, skills and values necessary for active participation in life in Australia. / 9. Students interact with people and cultures other than their own are equipment to contribute to the global community. / 10. Students participate in creative activity of their own and understand and engage with the artistic, cultural and intellectual work of others. / 11. Students value and implement practices that promote personal growth and well being. / 12. Students are self-motivated and confident in their approach to learning and are able to work individually and collaboratively. / 13. Students recognise that everyone has the right to feel valued and be safe, and, in this regard, understand their rights and obligations and behave responsibly.1. A pursuit of knowledge and a commitment to achievement of potential. / 2. Self acceptance and respect of self / 3. Respect and concern for others and their time. / 4. Social and civic responsibility. / 5. Environmental responsibility.
Religious Education Learning Area Outcomes
1. Students understand that people come to discover God through experiences in creation.
2. Students understand the content of the Christian message and its significance by relating it to examples drawn from human experience.
3. Students know the person of Jesus, the model for living out the Christian mission in the world
4. Students understand that Catholics are empowered to live like Jesus the Saviour as they draw on the power of God’s Spirit. (Semester one: 2011)
5. Students demonstrate the skills necessary in order to read and apply scripture to life and to participate in Catholic ritual and prayer. (Semester one:2011)
KEY UNDERSTANDINGS
A WONDERING AT THE CREATOR OF FREEDOM
A1 Wondering at human freedom
A2 Wondering at the creator of human freedom
A3 Attribute: God trusts people
B THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN SALVATION
B1 Jesus demonstrated true freedom
B2 Jesus promises the Holy Spirit to make his followers free
C CHRISTIAN RESPONSE
C1 Christians celebrate Jesus as Messiah
C2 During Holy Week Catholics celebrate Jesus as the triumphant Messiah
C3 Christians are called to live the Gospel freedom
C4 Continuing to wonder at human freedom and how Jesus shares the Holy Spirit to live Gospel freedom
Year / Progress toward Minimum Standard / Achievement of Minimum Standard / Progress towards Target / Target Range / Above Target
7 / 2M / 2H – 3F / 3M / 3H
KEY WORDS
FREEDOM / GOSPEL FREEDOM / GRACE / MESSIAH
VICE / VIRTUE
Steps of the Process
/Key Understandings
/Learning Points
/WEEK
/LESSON
/Strategy
A
WONDERING AT THE CREATOR OF FREEDOM
/A1 Wondering at human freedom
/ A1.1 States the characteristics of responsible people. / 6 / 1 / b) Y chart on characteristics of responsible people. Wonder questions p. 33.A1.2 Recognises examples of people not choosing what is good and loving. / a) Collect magazine /newspaper articles on people who harm others. Wonder questions p. 35.
A1.3 Records ways people develop freedom to do good. / 2 / a) Boss of the Pool, Robin Klein. Focus/Wonder questions p. 37.
A1.4 Explains how virtues, vices and freedom are related to each other. / c) Role play vices and virtues (see p. 41).
Complete A1 (activity sheet)
A2 Wondering at the Creator of human freedom / A2.1 Expresses wonder at God who created human freedom. / 3 / d) Use Resource Sheet 2 to respond to the idea of freedom.
Complete R2 (resource sheet)
A3 Attribute: God trusts people / A3.1 Celebrates that God trusts people to use the gift of human freedom in good and loving ways. / c) Letter of thanks to the God who trusts them.
B.
THE PROMISE OF CHRISTIAN SALVATION / B1 Jesus demonstrated true freedom / B1.1 Identifies virtues demonstrated by Jesus as he exercised true freedom. / 7 / 1 / b) Bumper sticker on scriptural reference.
ASSESSMENT:STATIONS OF THE CROSS
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B2 Jesus promises the Holy Spirit to make his followers free / B2.1 States an understanding of the word ‘grace’. / 8 / 1 / d) Acrostic poem on when the students have shown grace in their life.
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3 / c) Symbol of the Holy Spirit – dove – with times/actions that do/n’t support the Holy Spirit.
B2.2 Proposes changes that would occur in society if people received and responded to the Holy Spirit.
C1 Christians celebrate Jesus as the Messiah / C1.1 States the meaning of the word ‘Messiah’. / 9 / 1 / c) Create a rap/tune about the ‘Anointed One’ using R3 (resource sheet)
C.
CHRISTIAN RESPONSE / C1.2 Explains ways in which Jesus is revealed as the Messiah. / 2 / a) Using R4 students present their information. Note taking on what has been shared.
Complete R4a-b (resource sheet)
Complete A2 (activity sheet)
C2 During Holy Week Catholics celebrate Jesus as triumphant Messiah / C2.1 Identifies within scripture stories examples of Jesus the triumphant Messiah. / 3 / a) Worksheet A3.
Complete R5a-d (resource sheet)
Complete A3,4 (activity sheet)
C2.2 Describes the ways Christians carry out specal actions, of prayer, self-denial and helping others during Lent. / 10 / 1 / c) Class chart on what Christians are doing in Lent. Focus questions p. 57.
C2.3 Recreates elements of the Service of Light from the Easter Vigil. / a) Service of Light in the Chapel.
Complete R6 (resource sheet)
C3 Christians are called to live Gospel freedom / C3.1 Identifies what is meant by the term ‘Gospel freedom’. / 2 / b) Poetry on the students understanding of Gospel freedom
Complete A5 (activity sheet)
C3.2 Explains the need for Gospel freedom to live as Jesus calls his followers to live. / 3 / c) Dear Dorothy answers in their own Religious Education books.
C4 Continuing to wonder at human freedom and how Jesus shares the Holy Spirit to live Gospel freedom / C4.1 Reviews and expresses the main ideas of the unit. / e) Journal reflections from p. 65.
Complete A6 (activity sheet)
Complete R10a-b (resource sheet)
Assessment: (B1 Jesus demonstrated true freedom): Stations of the Cross