Lesson Plan Number: 4

Subject: Religious Education Topic: The Person and Preaching of Jesus Year Group: 1st year (1.1) No. of Students:28 Date: 13th January 2014 Time: 10.40-11.20 Length of Lesson: 40 minutes ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. KEY CONCEPT(S): What Key Concept(s) (ideas) will I teach in this lesson? Kingdom of God in Table Fellowship Kingdom of God in Discipleship

(The number of appropriate Key Concepts will vary depending on the lesson you intend on teaching)

______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2. LESSON AIM(S): What am I going to teach? In this lesson I aim to examine how the teachings of Jesus are taught through table fellowship and discipleship. I also aim to explore how we have become Jesus' disciples in creating a kingdom of God. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 3. LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the end of this lesson, students should be able to. explain the meaning of term table fellowship show an understanding of the term disciples describe how we have become Jesus' disciples identify how Jesus picked the first apostles explain the story of Zacchaeus

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. ASSESSMENT/EVIDENCE OF STUDENT LEARNING: How will I know that the learning outcomes are being achieved? 1. Key concept one will be assessed by: demonstrating an understanding of the Story of Zacchaeus and answering higher and lower order questions. 2. Key concept two will be assessed by: completing a worksheet following a role play of how Jesus picked His disciples performed by the students.

______________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: What prior knowledge do students have about this topic? In this topic students should have a good understanding of what the term Kingdom of God means as it has been covered in the previous classes as we have be identifying how Jesus taught about the Kingdom of God. Students might also be familiar with the story of Zacchaeus from primary school or by hearing it at mass. We will also be discussing how the likes of dinner, the whole family sitting down together can make people feel and the importance of such an act. Students will be able to identify with this as they would have performed this at home or in a restaurant. Students might also have a prior knowledge of the term discipleship as it might have been looked at in the primary school setting. For those whom are mass goers they would have heard of this word and may be familiar with some of the stories in the bible that involve the disciples.

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TEACHER ACTIVITIES: What activities will I use to facilitate the teaching of EACH Key Concept? How much time for each activity? STUDENT ACTIVITIES: What activities will the students be engaged in to understand EACH Key Concept? How much time for each activity? QUESTIONS: Please list lower and higher order questions that are linked to each Key Concepts. (A minimum of six questions specifically related to the key concepts, identifying higher/lower order with HO/LO)
6. Teacher Activity Take roll call Correct homework Introduce new topic for today: Kingdom of God in Table Fellowship 7. Student Activity Answer roll call Answer and correct homework What is table fellowship? HO Participate in the brainstorm Read passage on page 61 Discuss the story of Zacchaeus Form a final definition and understanding for the term "table fellowship" Does anyone know the story of Zacchaeus? LO What happens in the story of Zacchaeus? HO How would you feel is you were Zacchaeus? HO Why do you think Jesus chose to go to Zacchaeus' house? HO What did Jesus hope to teach others through table fellowship? HO What was Jesus' main message of table fellowship? HO 8. Questions Has anyone ever heard of the term "table fellowship" before? LO

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1. Key Concept(s) Teaching Key Concept 1

Table Fellowship

Conduct a brainstorm on table fellowship Direct teach the meaning of table fellowship Read passage on page 61

(15 minutes)

Discuss the story of Zacchaeus Come to a final conclusion on the term "table fellowship"

Teaching Key Concept 2 (etc.)

Introduce the Kingdom of God in Discipleship Discover the students understanding and prior knowledge of the disciples through questioning Form a definition of the term disciples and apostle Find out what students know about the story of how Jesus picked His twelve disciples Invite students to perform a role play of how Jesus met his first disciples Distribute worksheet following role play

Answer questions on the disciples Form a definition for the word disciple and apostle

Has anyone heard of the words disciple or apostle? LO Where would you have heard of these words? LO What does the word disciple mean? HO What does the word apostle mean? HO How many disciples did Jesus pick? LO How did Jesus come to pick his twelve disciples? HO Where did Jesus pick his disciples? LO

Tell the story of how Jesus picked His twelve disciples if known Perform role play of how Jesus picked his twelve apostles Complete worksheet following role play

Discipleship

(20-25 minutes)

Correct worksheet Assign homework task: Write about how we have become Jesus' apostles and how we continue to spread God's message.

Correct worksheet Make note of homework in journals

Who are Jesus' apostles now in 2014? LO How have we become Jesus' apostles? HO

______________________________________________________________________________________________ 9. DIFFERENTIATION: How will I differentiate the content knowledge of this lesson so as to include all learners in a mixed ability class? Students must...be able to identify a time when they had a big meal with family and friends, for example Christmas, birthdays, dinner in the evenings. Students should...be able to explain the purpose of the disciples and apostles. Students could...be able to tell the story of how Jesus picked His twelve disciples and why He did this.

______________________________________________________________________________________________ 10. RESOURCES: What materials/resources will I need/use? A Question of Faith, Lori Whelan and Niamh McDermott Whiteboard Whiteboard markers Duster Junior Certificate Religious Education Syllabus Junior Certificate Religious Education Teacher's Guidelines The Bible Role Play sheets www.teacherscorner.net

______________________________________________________________________________________________ 11. LITERACY & NUMERACY: What are the essential aspects of literacy/numeracy in this lesson? In this lesson students will be studying different terms such as table fellowship, disciples and apostles. A role play will also be incorporated into the lesson so therefore the students will be learning visually. Students will have to understand what they have visually seen in order to complete a worksheet that will follow. For those students whom are not visual learners, I will invite a student to explain the story in their own words and read the text of the story in the textbook. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 12. SELF EVALUATION: Were the Learning Outcomes achieved? Why /why not? How do I know they were/were not achieved?

What have I learned about my own practice from this lesson?

What will I do differently in my next class?