RE at key stage 3 (Year 8)
Unit 8C: Beliefs and practice (generic)
Section 5: How are beliefs shown in festivals?
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Objectives |
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- about the content of two religious festivals
- why religious people celebrate these festivals
- why festivals are important
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- Have a general discussion about why human beings celebrate festivals.
What are the names of any religious festivals of this religion?
- On a calendar fill in when the major religious festivals occur and name them. Investigate as a class two main festivals from the calendar. Read or watch accounts of what happens at these festivals. Ask pupils to discuss why these festivals are celebrated and what they can identify in them as the religion's main teachings or beliefs. Ask pupils to make a record of the key events and beliefs in each festival, and then to select one festival and imagine they are reporters for a local newspaper writing a piece on the festival covering what happens and why.
- Discuss life with no festivals.
What would be missing? Why is that important?
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- describe the content of two festivals
- identify the key beliefs behind these festivals
- write about the importance of festivals sharing personal understanding
- organise information effectively in a report appropriate for a local newspaper
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Points to note |
- There are opportunities here for further study or extension work into other festivals within the religion studied.
- ICT: pupils could set up a festivals database with fields relating to the religion, the date (or time of year or other identifying time), the practices, the meaning to believers and so on. This database could be refined and developed over the years, for use by future pupils and teachers.
- Language for learning: writing a newspaper report requires effective sequencing and paragraphing as well as clear topic sentences that link to subheadings. Some pupils will be helped by prompts on key points that can generate subheadings and topic sentences.
- ICT: using desktop-publishing packages could improve the presentation of their reports.
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