Year 8 Lesson November 3rd 2014

TEACHING:

Starter

Mind-Map activity (in books) in pairs, pupils write down everything they know or understand
about charities using prompt questions:

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3.
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Who are they?

What do they do?
Where do they do their work?
Why do they do their work?
When are they most active and why?

Students feed this information back to the class.

Development

Synonym race pupils write down as many synonyms for the word charity as they can in 2 minutes
> sweep the classroom with each pupil providing a synonym, which are collated onto the whiteboard
for pupils to record in their books > use list of synonyms to discuss the purpose of charities in
society.
Students should use dictionaries, a selection of which are on the books shelf or the dictionary box
on my desk.

Charitable or mean discussion based on the prompts from the hand out.

Collective Responsibility - discuss why charity is an important humanitarian concept (one preached
by all religions): Tzedakah, a Hebrew concept, literally meaning righteousness (Genesis 18:19) but
commonly used to signify charity, and giving to worthy causes or people in need; The parable of
the Good Samaritan; Zakah and Sadaqah, the Islamic concepts of mandatory and voluntary almsgiving, often translated as charity > in pairs, pupils explore the meaning of collective
responsibility
and
examples
in
society
before
feeding
back
to
the
class.

The PPT slide provided will guide you through this discussion.
Plenary

Students to feed back what they have learnt about the terms charity and collective
responsibility.

Key Terms for the lesson: charity collective responsibility