Year 7 RE at STM

Homework is due on Friday 17 October.

This week, 7BK2 will begin work in connection with Black History Month. We will be learning about the Kick Racism Out of Football campaign. (The weeks of action are 16 – 28 October.)

Your homework? To write a poem inspired by your learning in class. You will be learning what the Bible and the Catholic Church have to say about racism, and you will be learning about what footballers have to say about racism in sport. Be inspired to write a poem encouraging people to “kick racism out”!

I look forward to sharing the best poems here on the blog, and perhaps in the More&More school magazine. Do your best!

Here are some Bible passages that might help you:

Exodus 22:21
Leviticus 19:34
Luke 10:25-37
Acts 2:1-13

Homework due on Friday 10 October. (Apologies – the website was down last week, so this homework is late on, and by now all the homework should have been submitted. However, it hasn’t been, so I think it is worthwhile adding here.)

Copy out the Hail Mary, and begin to learn it.

Hail Mary, Full of grace,
The Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Homework due on Friday 3 October.

Prepare your speech on your faith community (or another community that you are part of).

Oral Assessment!

Prepare a talk about your community (church, mosque or other community group that you are part of).

Research your faith community, whether it is Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Buddhist.

Prepare a one minute speech. You may include pictures, photographs or artefacts to support your speech.

Practice and time your speech at home.

Remember this is an oral assessment, so you will be given a level based on your speech, not on your writing.

You may wish to include some of the following points in your speech:

What does your faith community believes?
What is your place of worship is called?
What do you do in your place of worship/What happens in your place of worship?
What might you find in your place of worship?
Information about an important festival in your faith community.
Information about the different vocations in your community.
What are the important beliefs of your faith community?
Why do you think it is important to belong to a faith community?
What symbols can be found in your place of worship?

You can include any other information that you think is relevant.

Image of Catholic Church: Click here.

Homework due on Thursday 11 September 2008.

Your homework is to produce a title page on the topic of community. You should use words and pictures. The title page should be in colour. You can find examples of work from last year’s Year 7s by clicking on this link here. There is also a short animated presentation featuring many title pages from different year groups here, to give you some more ideas. I look forward to seeing your finished pages on Thursday!

The Learning Objectives for this unit are:

1) What is a community?
2) What is prayer?
3) What is the Mass?
4) What do Catholic Christians believe about the Eucharist?
5) What happens during Mass?
6) What communities do you belong to?