World Religions – Rites of Passage: Funerary Practices
Following is a unit of work I submitted as part of the Teaching Religions of the World course. It was designed to follow on from other units of work in an overarching ‘World Religions Rites of Passage’ theme. This would be suitable for a year 9 or 10 class. Unit outline, Detailed lesson plan [...]
Teaching World Religions – essay
Judaism, Islam and Christianity are believers in one God while Buddhism and Hinduism are seekers after Truth. Discuss this with reference to one religion from each category. Judaism, Islam and Christianity are considered to be Abrahamic religions, or, religions which all stem from the same ancestry – Abraham. As such, there are some fundamental [...]
Some useful/interesting resources
I’m paddling to keep my head above water at the moment, but wanted to quickly log two things I came across tonight. First is the Australian Poetry Library. It has thousands of poems which are free to view, but have a small copyright fee if you want to print them out. It’s a win/win situation [...]
Teaching the Bible
This course had two major assessments, one being an essay, and the other being a teaching unit. Additionally we were required to participate in a weekly online discussion. Overall I received a HD for this unit. For the essay, I had to write on one of the following topics: a) An exploration of some aspect [...]