Evil & Suffering: Complete Unit (RE/RS)

This is a complete unit of work introducing students to the idea of evil and suffering and God’s place within that/how to overcome it, focusing on Christianity and Buddhism. This resource includes 11 lessons (designed as 50 minute lessons but would easily fill 1 hour lessons).It was designed for Year 8 in my school, but would be suitable for any KS3 year. There’s a range of different resources and activities to keep students engaged and encourage independent learning.

MINIMAL PRINTING

It includes:

• A tracker for the whole of my Y8 schemes of learning, featuring this as the first unit
• Progress map for students to highlight after each assessment in the year
• Common misconceptions and how to respond to feedback advice page
• Why are we learning this? Page
• An administration lesson with an introduction to evil & suffering
• Types of suffering
• The Christian response to evil and suffering including the story of Job (x2 lessons)
• The Hindu response to evil and suffering including the three marks of existence, four noble truths and eight fold path (x4 lessons)
• A key skill test opportunity to provide students with feedback on the skill ‘refer to sacred writings’ (or simply - use a quote) before the assessment
• A factual recall test opportunity (link to a microsoft form)
• ‘Refer to sacred writings’ 5-mark question marking sticker templates (ready to print on consortium stickers - pack of 8 - 99mmx68mm)
• An assessment lesson with the opportunity for stretch and challenge (called an ‘excellence task’)
• A DIRT lesson including model answers, feedback sheet and stretch and challenge questions
• 3 pieces of fully resourced homework (1 research task based, 1 revision based for a factual recall test, and 1 revision based with a knowledge organiser and practice assessment questions)
• Homework review lesson and summary of unit
• All learning objectives are based around ‘know, apply, extend’ and differentiation is present in the form of sentence starters, excellence challenges and model answers.

This is complete and ready to teach! Non-specialists have used it and followed it with ease.

Hopefully this will save you time and energy :)
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