Lesson video

Hello and welcome to this lesson on Recap and Practise in the Christian practises unit.

I am Miss Kendrick.

And in this lesson, we're going to spend some time recapping the information we went through in the first five lessons of this unit.

So if you haven't done those lessons and you've not studied them in school, you will probably want to do them before you do this lesson, because I am going to be testing you on some of the information that we have learnt.

This is going to be a really good opportunity though, to recap some knowledge and also to apply it to some questions as well and practise explaining it.

So we are going to need a pen or paper.

Pen or paper? Pen or pencil.

We're going to need some paper and a different coloured pen or pencil.

And that's because corrections are going to be a really important part of this lesson.

Often we don't like making corrections, because we don't like identifying when we are wrong.

But if you want to get better then you need to do that.

I always think the students who are most successful are often the ones who are most willing to take on feedback and act on it.

So if you're going to be that person and that is a real choice, it's not that some people are just naturally better at it than others.

It is just a decision we need to make to go, oh, okay that wasn't quite right.

I need to add a bit more or to see if we're completely wrong as well, but hopefully we'll be all right in this lesson.

So we're going to start with some quick-fire questions.

So I would like you to answer me and say, which do you think is the correct answer.

If you really cannot cope with the deep embarrassment of speaking to your computer screen or your phone screen, then you can point out what you think is the correct answer.

So, which of the following do Christians do to celebrate Christmas? One, two, three.

Sing carols.

Which of the following do Christians do to celebrate Easter? Paint eggs.

Which of the following is not part of Holy Week? This is a trickier question.

So the answer is Easter Sunday.

So Easter Sunday is the first day after Holy Week.

What event is not part of the Christmas story? The Christmas did not give Jesus gifts, sadly Father Christmas is not mentioned in the Christmas story at all.

What events is not part of the Easter story? Jesus did not become an angel.

Which of the following is not something Christians do to celebrate Easter? They do not tell the story of Jesus' birth, because Easter is focused on the stories around Jesus' death.

Which of the following is not something Christians do to celebrate Christmas? They do not blow out all of the candles in the church.

Which of the following give the best explanation of why Christians have Easter eggs? So to represent Jesus' blood and the empty tomb.

So I'm just going to give you a reminder of that one, if you didn't already know.

So this is a traditional sort of Easter egg.

So it's an egg that's been dyed red and it's empty.

It's been emptied of its yolk and the white.

So the red represents Jesus' blood.

The sort of feel of it.

It's a bit like a stone.

So this represents the sealed tomb in which Jesus' body lay.

But the fact that it's empty, represents the resurrection.

Which of the following gives the best explanation of why Christians celebrate Christmas? To celebrate God becoming incarnate.

So the key belief in Christmas is that Jesus is God incarnate.

Where do Roman Catholics believe St Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary? So we're onto pilgrimage.

The answer is Lourdes.

Where do many Christians believe that the veil between heaven and earth is thin? Iona.

So that's an island off the coast of Scotland.

Which of the options below is not a reason why Christians may go on pilgrimage? So the Bible does not command that Christians go on pilgrimage, but many Christians do choose to.

And there's a long tradition of pilgrimage.

Where may Christians go on pilgrimage if they want to be healed? So they might go to Lourdes.

And we're on to beliefs about the Eucharist.

So, which Christians believe in transubstantiation? Roman Catholics.

They are not the only Christians who believe in transubstantiation, but they're the example we learned about in these lessons.

What does transubstantiation mean? So it's the belief that the bread and wine change substance into Jesus' body and blood.

What is a sacrament? It's an outward sign of inward grace.

So for example baptism as a sacrament, the outside is the water being used in baptism.

And the inward grace is the belief that baptism washes away original sin.

So the person might not look different, but they believe that there has been a change to their soul.

What Christians believe communion is a remembrance meal? That's Baptists again, they're not the only Christians who believe it's a remembrance meal, but they are the ones we focused on.

What Christians often believe in a real presence? And there's a little test as part of this.

So Church of England/Anglican.

So we can often use the terms Church of England and Anglican interchangeably.

Can Roman Catholics never practise adult baptism.

True or false? That is false.

So, if a person converts to Christianity or Catholicism, when they are and when I say all Catholics are Christians, but particularly to that denomination.

If that adult wasn't baptised as a child or early on in life, then they will be baptised as an adult.

Some Christians believe baptism is necessary for a person to go to heaven.

True or false? That is true.

So Roman Catholics believe that baptism washes away original sin and original sin must be washed away, so that someone can go to heaven.

So we have spent quite a long time on those quick-fire questions.

I really hope it's gotten all of these ideas in your head.

Again, if you've gotten some things you might have gone through them and go, oh yeah, I remember that now.

That was my aim.

What you're going to do now is you are going to answer a couple of short answer questions.

This fits with several examples.

Quite a few of them will have low value questions that are worth one, two or three marks.

So it's really good to practise answering these.

So the one I'm getting you to now is, give two ways Christians practise the Eucharist.

It's not asked for an explanation.

So that means that you can just answer with a really short sentence.

So just be really direct.

It's always good to say what denomination you are referring to.

But this question doesn't necessarily mean you have to.

You could just talk about different things that happen in a Eucharist service.

So pause your video now and answer the question.

Okay, so have a different colour pen ready for corrections or additions to your answer.

And two things that happen in Eucharist or two ways in which Christians practise Eucharist is the bread and wine is prepared on an altar and the bread and wine are blessed by the priest.

So you could say, Roman Catholics will bless the bread and wine and any leftover bread will be put in the tabernacle.

So you could be specific, but an answer like this would be fine.

If you've got anything else that happens in Eucharist service that is good.

My answers are not the only things that happen.

Next question.

So this one, it doesn't even need a sentence.

You just need two words.

So two places Christians may go on pilgrimage.

Pause your video, write down your answer.

Okay, so I've got three places written down here.

I've got Jerusalem, Iona and Lourdes.

Those are the ones that I talked about in the pilgrimage lesson in this unit.

There are other places as well.

So traditionally places like Rochester Cathedral, or Canterbury Cathedral have been places of pilgrimage as well.

So there are lots of options.

The next thing we're going to do is we are going to answer a longer, explain question.

And this question has got an important word in it, which is contrasting.

So if you're asked in questions, give two contrasting ways in which Christians do something or practise baptism in this example.

Then those examples you've given needs to be different.

Not necessarily opposite, because it doesn't always make sense for there to be an opposite when you're talking about belief and practise.

But you can just talk about something that's different.

So for this question, I would think that, what do you know about what Christians do when it comes to baptism and which ones are very different? You're going to start by having a little think about what Christians believe about baptism to see if you can remember and what do different denominations do.

It's relevant to think about original sin, because that's going to link to Christian beliefs about original sin as well.

So that is the clue I'm giving you.

All right, here is my mind's map.

So hopefully you've got some of these ideas down and I've got two colours, because I got beliefs in green and I've got the actual practises in blue.

Because this question is asking you specifically about practise, not just beliefs.

So you need to make sure you talk about why the practises are different because of the beliefs.

Now there's a very big similarity on my mind's map.

Have you spotted it? So, I have got infant baptism on here twice.

And that is because both Roman Catholic and Anglican Christians, they both believe in the idea that baptism washes away original sin.

And they both practise infant baptism.

And the question has asked you about contrast in beliefs, hasn't it? So you are not going to talk about Roman Catholic and Anglican ways of practising baptism, because they are very similar.

If you were asked the question as for similar beliefs go down that road, that would be ideal.

But this is where it's really useful for us to know the Baptist view.

So Baptist Christians believe that only adults should be baptised since this is called believers baptism.

And an example of practise is that the adult will give a testimony of their journey of faith and why they've become a Christian.

Which obviously a child would not be able to do in an infant baptism.

So now I've got this information for you.

You can pause the video now for a second to add to your own work.

And once you've done that, you're going to give a go at writing your answer.

So one way in which Christians practised baptism is that Roman Catholics practise infant baptism.

This is because they believe that baptism washes away original sin, which prevents a person from going to heaven.

However, Baptist Christians will only practise believers baptism.

This is because they believe that the person should understand the commitment being made at baptism.

So you've got your clear points about what they're going to do and you've got an explanation why as well.

And that's where you need to have your clear point and explanation.

So pause video now for a moment, so you can add to your own answer.

The next thing we're going to do is we're going to practise explaining with some evidence.

So evidence is a Bible quotation or Bible story that you can use to back up what you're saying.

So let's have a little look at our question.

Our question is, explain two Christian beliefs about prayer.

This should be really nice and straightforward to answer, because there's so much that you can say about prayer and Christianity.

Because pretty much every other act of worship involves prayer at some point, nearly all of them.

So, what you need to do is think carefully about the evidence you could use.

And that's probably going to be the easiest approach.

Think about well, what do you know in terms of Bible verses or Bible stories that are linked to prayer and what can you say about them? So I'm going to give you a minute to pause your video.

And I want you to see if you can write down as much as you can about prayer and any evidence you can get down as well.

But here's my mind map about prayer and lots of different details about it.

And in a minute, I'm going to give you some quotations that you could be using.

So we've got the ideas that there's non-liturgical prayer and liturgical prayer.

So liturgical prayer follows a set pattern.

So written prayers like those found in the Book of Common Prayer and non-liturgical prayer is prayer that doesn't follow a set pattern.

So that could be a prayer that a Christian just makes up either with other people or by themselves.

We've got the Lord's Prayer as evidence.

There's the belief that God answers prayer.

The example of Jesus praying.

So the Bible talks about Jesus regularly going off to a quiet place to pray.

We've got that prayer is part of other practises like Eucharist and baptism Both of those involve prayers.

We have got on the far side as well, different types of prayer, like request, praise, confession and thanks.

There's a way to remember it the Mnemonic, STAR.

So S stands for sorry.

T stands for thanks.

A stands for adoration.

That's another word for praise.

And R stands for request.

So STAR, Sorry, Thanks, Adoration and Request.

So there's those different types of prayer as well.

And several of these can be found in the Lord's Prayer.

So this is the prayer that Jesus taught His disciples.

So I think you should take a moment to pause the video.

And if you haven't already got some quotations down about prayer, choose a couple of lines from the Lord's Prayer that you could say different things about.

If you were to quote this in an examination, you would not have to use the whole thing.

Just choose the part of it, that is relevant to what you want to say.

So pause the video now and get your quotations.

Okay, hopefully you've got done what you need and so you should be ready to write your answer.

I hope you gotten okay with that and that you found all right using those quotations.

I've got my example for you here.

And again, it's colour coded.

So you completely see my points, my piece of evidence and my explanation.

So I'm going to read out my answer to you and then you're going to pause the video and see if you need to make any additions or corrections to your work.

So one Christian belief about prayer is that God answers prayer.

For example, in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus encourages people to ask for what they need.

"Give us this day our daily bread." Today, Christians will pray to God to ask for anything they need and trust that He will provide.

So pause the video and add anything you need to answer and then we'll look at my second half.

Also think about, have you written as much as me that is only half of my answer.

So make sure you're explaining in full and that you've got enough written down.

Okay, let's look at the other half.

So my second half of my answer.

One Christian belief about prayer is that it is a way to say sorry to God when someone has done wrong.

For example, in the Lord's Prayer it says, "forgive us our debts." And another word for debts is sins in this Christian translation a bit old.

So Christians would say that saying sorry for sin is an important part of having a good relationship with God.

So you see that I've used the Lord's Prayer both times, so I've just used different parts of it.

And that's absolutely fine.

So again, pause your video and add it to your own answer.

So finally, we're going to look at an evaluate question.

So evaluate questions require you to give reasons for or against and against the statement.

You need to have both sides of argument.

And you need to use evidence from information, you've learned about Christianity.

As we are talking about questions within the Christianity unit at the moment, only talk about Christian practises.

Obviously beliefs are going to link into this as well.

You will need a conclusion with a clear judgement and you will need to use evidence as well.

So the statement here is baptism is more important than prayer.

So why might some Christians agree with it? Why might they disagree? I'm going to give you a moment, to have a think about your answer.

So I want you to bullet points some different ideas for this question.

I hope that you found my list useful as well.

If you're getting a bit stuck on some of your own ideas and if you had different things, that's absolutely great.

Just before you give writing a go, things to include.

You want some evidence.

So some of those quotations.

You'll have some written down already from your previous answers.

You can use those quotations again.

You want evaluation.

So say why an idea or a reason is strong or weak.

And you want a clear judgement in your conclusions.

So say which side of the argument you think is strongest.

So I hope you're feeling ready, give it a go.

You probably need to spend a good 15 minutes, writing your answer to make sure it's really full.

And I have to say to my students with these questions, I want a good four page maybe even more, depending on their handwriting as well.

So spend some time on this.

It's really worth practising these evaluate questions.

They're usually worth the most marks in examples.

So your teachers are going to be really chuffed, if you're able to get these nailed down.

So give it a go.

And then I will give you a bit of an example answer.

Thank you so much for all of your hard work in this lesson.

I hope you've found recapping these different beliefs really helpful.

Remember recapping is always going to be so important, because we never remember everything.

I sat in an RE lesson last week, even though I'm an RE teacher, why is that someone else's lesson I probably remember everything that they said, so you're definitely not going to remember everything from lessons you've sat in and that is why we need to recap and why we have to revise.

And when we're revising, we need to do more than just reading through something.

We need to be doing something with it, like answering questions, testing ourselves et cetera, et cetera.

So if you've done all of those things, you should feel really proud of yourself, for all of the work that you've done in this lesson.

And now it's time for you to do the exit quiz.