THE BIBLEYEAR FOUR TERM THREE – 3 WEEK UNIT

LEARNING INTENTION

LI: You will learn about the parts of the Bible.

As we explain each of these try to find them in a Bible (you may have to work in pairs)

The Bible is divided into the 

Old Testament (containing 46 books)

New Testament (containing 27 books).

• The word testament means covenant or agreement.

NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT

The Old Testament was put together by the Hebrews

The New Testament was collected and preserved by early Christians after the time of Jesus Christ.

OLD TESTAMENT

Most of the Old Testament forms the sacred text for the followers of Judaism and is the scripture that Jesus knew (because Jesus was a Jew).

Using a Bible put the parts of the Bible in order of where you find them in the Bible.

Cut them out from your worksheet and glue them into your book in order.

COMPLETE THE BIBLE SKILLS ACTIVITY

LEARNING INENTION

LI: I will identify a variety of different creation stories.

CHRISTIAN CREATION STORY

BRAINSTORM

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT THE CHRISTIAN CREATION STORY?

Where do we find the story of Creation?

What are the different parts of the story? 

How many Creation stories are there in the Old Testament?

CHRISTIAN CREATION STORY

Click on the image to watch the clip.

CHRISTIAN CREATION STORIES

Using a Bible find the creation story. Read the story and then make a comic of what happened in the beginning, middle and end of the story.

Beginning Middle End

HERE ARE THREE CLIPS OF CREATION STORIES FROM OTHER CULTURES.

WATCH THEM AND THE CHOOSE ONE TO DESIGN AN A4 DEPICTION OF THE STORY.

HINDU CREATION

ZULUCREATION

ABORIGINALCREATION

LEARNING INTENTION

LI: I will compare different ways that Bible stories are depicted.

Moses- Click on the clip to watch the video

Locate the story

Ex 2:1-10 in the New Revised Standard Version Catholic edition (NRSV Cath ed.) using Bible Gateway.WHAT ARE THE

DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE STORIES?

LEARNING INTENTION

LI: I will compare how different text types are used in the Bible to tell a story.

TEXT TYPES

So what are text types?

They can be Information reports

Narratives

Procedure

Poetry

Persuasive

These are used in the Bible.

• Historical - myth• Poetry• Song• Letter• List• Speech/sermon• Wise saying• Prayer

LANGUAGE FEATURES IN THE BIBLE

They may use

• Imagery (words that help you to image what something is like)

• Metaphor (something is something else)

• Simile (something is like something else)

• Repetition (repeating words)

• Symbol (something that represents something else)

• Alliteration (words that start with the same sound)

Jonah - Working in pairs

Half of the class is going to read Jonah 1.

Go to Bible Gateway and Type in Jonah 1 NSRV

Then discuss with your partner what the story means

Half of the class is going to read Jonah 2.

Go to Bible Gateway and Type in Jonah 2 NSRV

Then discuss with your partner what the story means

Discuss as a class what each of the stories were aboutThen work out - What was the same- What was different

Jonah- Click on the clip to watch

In your religion books draw a picture of the main scene in the story of Jonah.

Then write a artist statement about what the story of Jonah tells us about God.

Think about what the moral of the story is.