TOPIC 10E
INSPIRING MEN AND WOMEN
Read Teacher’s notes and achievement Objectives and Learning Outcomes. Teachers really need to read the all the Introduction to the Topic page2-12to become familiar with the background and to have an overview of the subject matter and to see whether any of the topic can be linked to what is being studied in social sciences curriculum.
Look at Achievement Objectives and Learning Outcomes as a focus for this topic.
This topic deals with social and cultural heroes and role models. If studying this topic immediately it might be an idea to use the Queen’s Birthday weekend newspapers to look at those people nominated in the Queen’s Birthday awards.
How many lessons you want to dedicate to this topic? The topic is broken up into seven parts: -
Our Heroes
Christian Lives
Prophets
Women Who Advanced God’s Plan
Mary – Woman of Faith
Saints and Patrons
The Family of Saints
PART ONE – OUR HEROES
Focus
We identify certain people as heroes because of their outstanding human qualities and virtues.
Heroes inspire us to face challenges and develop our mana (spiritual power)
Ordinary people have the potential to do extraordinary things.
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- Teacher to read pg24 in the Teacher Guide‘The Problem with Heroes’ and ‘The Virtues’ to get the right perspective on this topic.
- To start Look at ‘Heroes are Everywhere’ on p.3 in the Student Textbook. Teacher to draw a mind map with heroes at the centre and then different categories coming off it. Use the categories in the book and add to them. Can also use the list of Inspiring New Zealanders on p.26 in the Student Workbook.
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- Discuss virtues. Look at the list of virtues on p.6 in the Student Textbook. This page can be photocopied and students can ring a virtue as they come across it during the topic. Alternatively, a group list of virtues can be started and put up on the wall and added to during the topic.
- Play Virtues card game – see the Teacher Guide pg 27-35 for material.
- Students are given a category and they must find a person who fits that category and they should be able to say three things about him/her, the virtues that are shown by him/her.
- Optional activities - workbook Activity p.26, Extension Activity or Something to Make, STB p.7 or Something to do STB p.8.
- Class read ‘How to be an Ordinary Person – Yet do Extraordinary Things!’ Follow this by doing Task 5 on pg 8. There are four choices, a rap or a prayer could be added to the choices.
PART TWO – CHRISTIAN LIVES
Focus
Christians achieve what they do by trusting Te Atua (God), following Hehu (Jesus) and by being open to TE Wairua Tapu (the Holy Spirit).
WORDS TO UNDERSTAND: - inspiration
- Read p.9 in the STB together, ‘The Power of God’ and discuss Christian Virtues. A jigsaw activity for this can be used for students with difficulty understanding the language in the book.
- Students to read p.10 in the STB and can do either Task 6 on p.11 or the Extension Activity.
PART THREE – PROPHETS
Focus
The Old Testament prophets were people of faith and prayer who announced God’s message to Israel.
Today Te Atua continues to call people to be prophets.
WORDS TO UNDERSTAND :-
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- Discuss prophets and their role. STB p.12 See Teacher Guide p.58 last para. ‘ The popular understanding of a prophet as a seer…..’
- Teacher can play students the song ‘Here I am Lord’ by Dan Schutte. The words are readily available and a printed in the Teacher Guide on pg 61. The song highlights the call/response theme which is central to an understanding of the prophets’ mission.
- Students to read about Elijah and Jeremiah on p.13 in the STB. They can answer basic questions, Who, What, When, Where, Why and How?
- Students to do Task Eight on pg 14 in the STB.
- ‘Prophets Today’ pg 14 – Read this and then ‘The Reluctant Prophet’. Students can then do ‘Something to Discuss’ on pg 14 in small groups of 3 or 4 and then write their own response to ‘Something to Think About’ in their notebooks.
- The Extension Activity. Students can also do this in small groups but will need time to research their answers or maybe this could be copied for a Homework exercise.
PART FOUR – WOMEN WHO ADVANCED GOD’S PLAN
Focus
Throughout the Old Testament there are many women of outstanding faith who advanced God’s plan.
In the New Testament women played important roles in Jesus’ life and in the spread of the
Good News.
WORDS TO UNDERSTAND: -
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- Read the passage on ‘Women in Scripture’ together and then read the stories of Ruth and Esther on p.17 in the STB or use the Lion Children’s Bible or the Dorling Kindersley Children’s Illustrated Bible to tell the stories. Students can then retell the story using a film strip or the Story Review.
- Another way to use the filmstrip is that in each box the student quickly draws a symbol to remind him/herself of that part of the story. At the end of the story using the symbols the student writes a summary of the story or tells the story to someone else.
- Students can also do the crossword on p. 28 in the Student Workbook on Old Testament women.
- New Testament Women on p. 18 in the STB can be done as a scripture search in groups of four.
PART FIVE – MARY – WOMAN OF FAITH
Focus
Mary, the Mother of Hehu Karaiti, is the outstanding model of Christian faith.
WORDS TO UNDERSTAND: - model disciple
- There are two ways that this part can be done. After introducing Mary as model of faithful discipleship, the students can read ‘And the Mother of Jesus was there….’ On pg 19. Students, in groups, can illustrate each aspect of Mary’s life and these can be put together as a frieze. The students could also list the qualities Mary showed on each occasion. The filmstrip handout could be used for this and enlarged on the photocopier or the students might like to do them as stained glass windows for the wall of a church.
- Alternatively the ‘Reflection on Our Lady’ in the old year 10 Student Book can be read together as a class. It may have to be condensed. The reflection considers Mary a pregnant girl, a loving wife, a lonely and frightened mother, a refugee, a devoted daughter, a neighbour, a friend, a widow, a solo mother, a lay worker in the church etc. Students may search the Internet or other sources to find pictures to make a collage to illustrate this in modern life. Searching in Google for pictures of Women, Holy Land, or Israeli women usually produces some useful pictures.
- Go over ‘Mary’s Song of Praise’ on pg 20 and discuss how we can be more like Mary. How can we develop the qualities that she showed during her life?
PART SIX – SAINTS AND PATRONS
Focus
Those people who lived outstanding Christian lives are called saints and are venerated by the Church.
Canonisation is the official process through which the Church recognises and declares that a person is a saint.
Particular aspects of life come under the protection of particular patron saints.
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- ‘Saints in the Church’ on p. 21 in the STB is very wordy and will have to be summarized for most classes by the teacher. Students are usually interested in how a person becomes a saint.
- Discuss patron Saints. See p. 22 in the STB.
PART SEVEN AND ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY
- Each student is to select a saint or prophet from Student TextBook pages 17,18 or 19, p.22, 24-28, or the patron saint of your school.
- Ask the class to brainstorm sensible questions that they would like to beasked about their chosen saint. These questions are written on the board.
- Students are to select five questions they would want to answer.
- Students spend a couple of periods at the most to research the answers and write them out.
- Each student then sits in the ‘Hot Seat’ and is asked their questions and must answer them comprehensively for the class.
Twilight Session 10E - Inspriing Men and Women.. Burke/Wanden. Auckland C.S.O. June 2004