Marriage and Family LIfe (CLICK HERE FOR REVISION)

Well done for getting here.

If you click on the title of this post you will be taken to the BBC Bitesize revision for Christian and Muslim views on marriage and family life.

Task:

• Read the revision bite.
• Do the test (it marks itself).
• Make your own revision post card ready to answer this question:

"Outline the attitudes towards divorce and re-marriage in one religion other than Christianity." (8)

Your answer will include:

• Basic views all Muslims agree with.
• Differences amongst Muslims in attitudes towards divorce.
• Any religious teachings that influence the beliefs (Qur'an -Hadith)

Revision Cards for Wealth and Poverty Assessment

Your homework is to revise for an assessment on all topics covered in Wealth and Poverty so far.

The flash cards below may help you. Go through them until you can predict the answers coming up.

CLICK ON THE TITLE FOR A LINK TO MORE DETAILED REVISION NOTES

Religion Wealth and Poverty Revision » ProProfs Flashcards

An unequal world

In this final unit you are studying wealth and poverty; Christian and Muslim responses to it. You may wish to post a comment after re-viewing the minature Earth video clip.

Your homework details are:

Prepare a summary (approx 500 words) of the work of one Religious Agency that helps  in the development of an LEDC (Less Economically Developed Country). Choose from: CHRISTIAN AID, TEAR FUND, CAFOD, WORLD VISION. (Each of these is a hyperlink to the website with the information). If you choose another organisation it must be religious (i.e. not comic relief or Oxfam)

Questions to answer (success criteria)

• Why does it do it’s work (how have beliefs influenced them)?
• What does it do? (briefly outline it’s different types of work)
• Where does it work? (Give 2 examples of development work done).

This must be YOUR summary. Read, put down, write in your own words

Sources:

Christian aid booklet (See Mr Beech)

LRC has books on named agencies.

Christian Aid

Your essay at the end of this unit is:


Outline the work of one religious organisation that aims to reduce inequality in the world. In your answer you should explain the religious nature of the organisation and how it helps to reduce inequality. (12)

This is an extended piece of writing, therefore it will be written in paragraphs. You will use your mind map to support this.

Click on the title to find the details on Christian Aid we used in lessons. You need to know:

• When it was set up.
• Why they believe they should help the poor
• How it helps to reduce inequality.
• Some examples of the work it has done.

Religious Conversion (Homework)

Your homework this week is to answer this question:

"It is wrong to try and convert someone to a different religion." Do you agree? Give reasons for your opinion showing that you have considered other points of view. Include religious views in your answer. (4 marks)

I have coloured this because as you can see, to get the marks you need to do a number of things in your answer. To convert someone is to try and get them to change their beliefs; it is based on the idea that only one religion is right. So...for example, you may see Christians in the streets telling others about their faith and some will tell people of other faiths that their beliefs are wrong.

Should people have the right to do this? Is it a good or bad things?

Bring your work to paper in class or write your answer on the blog.

Prejudice + Racism

Don't forget to use the links to look at the background notes on these topics.

Our topic is "Social Harmony"

Some Facts about Racism

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  An African Caribbean graduate is more than twice as likely to be unemployed as a white person with A-levels.

In 1999 only 30% of Pakistani pupils, 37% of black pupils, and 30% of Bangladeshi pupils achieved 5 or more GCSEs at grades A*-C, compared with 50% of white pupils and 62% of Indian pupils.

Infant mortality is 100% higher for the children of African Caribbean or Pakistani mothers than white mothers.

A fifth of the housing occupied by asylum seekers is unfit for human habitation.

In 1998/9 black people were six times more likely to be stopped and searched than white people.

Over 4,000 people voted for the British National Party in Burnley in the 2001 General Election.

Read more details of this on the link below: (Source NUS online)

http://www.nusonline.co.uk/prioritycampaigns/makingequalitycount/kickoutbigotry/12854.aspx

So - here's your question:

What causes some people to be racist? (Why do some people believe that one group of people are naturally better than another group?)

Don't forget to post your blogs on the comments link directly below this (not on the old one).

REVISION, REVISION, REVISION (click here to go to revision guide)

One method of revising lots of information. The LOCI Method:

a) Think of a place you know very well (e.g. your journey to school or different rooms in your house).

b) For each topic you need to remember you will place images in different places that are familiar to you.

c) The brighter, stranger, funnier or more disgusting the image the more you will remember it.

d) When you need to recall the information go through the imaginary journey in your head.

E.g. If I want to remember Responses to the problem of suffering and evil (Why does a loving God allow people to suffer?): (I am using my kitchen as a place familiar to me).

I go to my fridge door and when I open it I notice a huge Killer Whale squashed inside. It's FREE WILLY, he's chosen to stay in the fridge. (God gave people free will, the ability to choose right and wrong).

On top of the oven there is a man dying on the cross, blood spilling all over the cooker. (Christians say that God shared in human suffering when Jesus died on the cross).

In the sink there is a little church with lots of people praying in it. (They are asking God to help those suffering).

On the draining board is Sherlock Holmes smoking a pipe and looking through his magnifying glass investigating a mystery. (It's a mystery why God allows suffering - we can never understand God).

The lights are very bright, when I look up I notice angels flying around the lights and clouds gathering. (This life is a preparation for Heaven when people will not suffer).

Once you have created the images go around your room again. 30 minutes later test yourself by making a note of the key points you needed to learn.

Run out of rooms in your house? Go into your garden, use a friend's room, use the school building etc...

DO REVISE!!!!