Christianity and Islam War and Violence Jihad Just War OUTSTANDING GCSE. WJEC EDUCAS OCR AQA

An** outstanding lesson **covering Critical Thinking Skills on the topic of War and Violence within Islam and Christianity.

Students will consider bias and empathy when it comes to arguing whether some religious and more comfortable with violence than others. This is clearly an important topic to correct misconceptions on and promotes Gearon’s pedagoical view that RE has a crucial role to play in terms of the “Counter-Terrorist” classroom.

(a) Imaginative Starter Activity - using an arresting image (as seen on the cover image of this resource)
(b) Differentiated learning outcomes with regular progress checks throughout.
© Lesson hook daring on Geothe’s “Two Chair” empathy and critical thinking approach developed by Warwick University
(d) Sources activity (VENN DIAGRAM) drawn together from various texts including Bitesize St
(e) Short evaluative essay task to develop close critical thinking and exam technique
(f) Help sheet for students struggling with arguments for and against the proposition that “some religious are more comfortable with violence than others”.
(g) Peer assessment task with clear success criteria for students to draw on (WWW and EBI)
(h) Final progress check.

An ambitious and well planned lesson

Revd. Gareth Rayner-Williams.