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Hi, my name is Miss Speakman, and we are on Lesson 6 of 14 of the Islamic policies and teachings unit.

What we're going to do in today's lesson is take a little bit of a break from learning new content and do what I call a recap and a practise lesson.

These are so important because we've learned quite a lot of content within what we've done so far in the unit.

If perhaps maybe you're tuning in for the first time, it will be recapping hopefully some of the things you may have covered with your own school and your own teacher.

Even if you haven't, then these things will be a really nice way of introducing some of the concepts from the Islamic policy and teachings unit.

Recapping and practising is so important for helping things stick into our longterm memory.

Essentially, we have a short term memory and a long term memory.

And the short term memory has limited capacity, so you will perhaps do certain things that's in your short term memory that's going to be forgotten soon after.

Your long term memory is said to be infinite, so if we can get things into our longterm memory from our short term memory, then we can fit lots of stuff in there and know so much, which is so exciting.

I think that's so exciting anyway, I think that's great.

An infinite amount of stuff I can hold in my brain sounds great to me.

And there's really good ways of doing that to getting things stuck into our longterm memory and those are the sorts of things we'll be doing today through the recap and through the practise.

So what going to be covered today in our lesson? Well, it's going to be an opportunity to recap the learning in the first five lessons of what I've covered in the Oak National Academy curriculum.

It would also include some examination style questions and key concepts.

It's really important for me to note, they're not going to be specifically exam board focused in this lesson.

Essentially I'm just going to get you to do a range of different styles of questions, which aren't necessarily what you'd see in an exam, but are good ways of recapping things.

Let's make sure that we are ready for our lesson first of all, though, please.

So you're going to need a pen or a pencil, a piece of paper or an exercise book, and a different coloured pen for corrections.

You're also going to need to make sure you have a clear working space, so music and TV off, phone to one side, if you're not using it for the lesson so it's not distracting you.

Perhaps maybe clear some desk space, make sure it's nice and quiet.

It's just a good way to help us concentrate.

If we're going to try and get things into our long term memory, we need not to have any distractions going on.

If you need to get yourself ready at all, then please pause the video now and get yourself sorted, unpause when you're ready to move on, please.

Okay, ready to start? So we're going to start off with, are what we call these quick fire, multiple choice questions.

I'm going to give you some questions.

There's going to be the question with two possible answers.

You are going to say out loud or point to your screen, which one's the correct answer after I count down from three.

What's really great about this is you don't have to commit something to paper.

You can think about it, say it out loud, your initial response as a really good way of thinking, do I know it or is that actually a really tricky question? These multiple choice, quick fire questions, just a really good way to get your brain working, fire up a little bit, test what we know so far, and then you'll be able to see really clearly, maybe that's something I need to go back to.

I always say to my students at school, if I ask you a question, to be able to know it, you should be able to do it like that.

You shouldn't be able to have to sit there and think about it.

It takes practise, of course.

It won't be the case that every single question you will get right every single time straight away.

But the more like snappy it is, the quicker you can give the answer, the better, you know it.

So should we get started and have a go on some? Yeah, let's go.

So let's get started with some quickfire questions.

Historically speaking, Muhammad was clear on who should lead after his death.

Is it true or false? 3, 2, 1.

False.

Historically speaking, there are a number of passages which suggest that he said maybe I'll be back at all, Ali should have been the caliph.

Shi'a Muslims believe the caliph should have been? Is it either Ali or Abu akr? 3, 2, 1.

Good Ali.

Sunni Muslims believe the caliph should have been Ali or Abu Bakr? 3, 2, 1.

Good Abu Bakr.

Ali never became caliph, is it true or false? 3, 2, 1.

` Good it's false here.

He's the fourth caliph.

The caliphs were not always Sunni, true or false? 3, 2, 1.

True, cause obviously Ali and his son, Hassan were Shi'a.

All Muslims agree that angels have no free will, true or false? 3, 2, 1.

Good it's false because Shi'a Muslims believe there is some element of free will, but they obey Ali fully.

Angels were created by Allah to help creation run smoothly, is it true or false? 3, 2, 1.

Good it is true.

That each have a job which helps run creation.

Muslims believe in angels because the Qur'an mentions them, true or false? 3, 2, 1.

Good it is true.

Without angels, there could be no revelations, true or false.

3, 2, 1.

False.

As we know, Allah is omnipotent and so he would have chosen another way to send revelations if he didn't have angels.

Who revealed the Qur'an to Muhammad? Is it Malik or Jibril? 3, 2, 1.

Brilliant it is Jibril.

Who writes down bad deeds? Is it Raqib or Atid? 3, 2, 1.

Good it's Atid who sits on the left shoulder.

Who takes the soul from bodies at death? Is it Azrael or Israfil? 3, 2, 1.

Good it is Azrael.

Who is responsible for the forces of nature? Is it Mika'il or Maalik? 3, 2, 1.

Good it is Mika'il.

Who plays the trumpet to signal the day of judgement ? Is it Azrael or Israfil? 3, 2, 1.

Good it is Israfil.

Who guards Jahannam or hell? Sorry.

Maalik or Mika'il? 3, 2, 1.

Good, it is Maalik.

If you got all of those correct I'm so impressed because that shows really, really good understanding of knowledge.

If you got some of those incorrect that's absolutely fine.

I'd imagine that this would happen at this point because we're only starting to get really to grips with what we've learned so far in Islam.

So it's okay if you've made slight mistakes or you've got some of them confused, plenty of time to make sure that we are more confident with them.

Let's now move on to some questions about definitions.

So here you can see, I've got a question then we've got four options.

I want you to choose the option that is correct.

So what's the Muslim name for God? Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Ali, or Allah? 3, 2, 1.

Good, it should be Allah.

Option four.

What does the word Muslim mean? Is it one who submits, one who commits, one who follows, one who obeys? 3, 2, 1.

Good, you should've said option one, one who submits.

What does the word Islam mean? Is it peace, oneness, love, live? 3, 2, 1.

Good, you should've said peace.

It comes from the root Salaam in Arabic, which means peace.

Which key word is this a definition for, a separate branch or group of a common faith? Is it Sunni, Shi'a, denomination, caliph? 3, 2, 1.

Good, you should have put denomination.

A separate branch or group of a common faith is a denomination.

Sunni and Shi'a are examples of denominations.

Which keyword is this the definition for, a leader of an Islamic state? Is it Muhammad, caliph, denomination, group? 3, 2, 1.

Good, you should have said caliph.

Caliphs are those leaders of an Islamic state.

If you got all of those correct, I am really, really impressed.

Now again, of course, we would find that some of these you might get incorrect and that's cause we just need a little bit of time.

There's one more I'm going to ask you cause this is going to be important for the part next question I'm going to ask you.

So one more question, which key word is this the definition for, the oneness of Allah? Shahadah, caliphs, Tawhid, Ibrahim? 3, 2, 1.

Good, you should have said Tawhid.

The reason why I asked this one last and separate from the others is because it's going to help us now for some of these questions we're going to do a bit later on.

So well done if you got all of those correct.

Let's now move on to perhaps some questions, which you might find are slightly trickier, but we'll build up that challenge throughout the lesson.

So as I said, we're going to move on to some questions which are slightly trickier, but build up the challenge, getting us to recap lots of things.

So I want to spend about a minute on this question.

I want you to name two caliphs.

Think carefully about what a caliph is and see if you can work on the names of two caliphs.

I want you to pause the video, please and write down the name of two caliphs.

Okay, so ready to look at the answers? So please have your different coloured pen out ready for corrections.

It's okay if perhaps maybe you can only remember one name or you could remember two, but you're not quite sure if they're right or perhaps, I mean you've really struggled with this question.

It's a really good way of being able to then identify this is something that I find tricky, and this something I need to go back to.

So have your different coloured pen out.

If you're not ready then go back and pause again and make sure that you've got an answer down.

So, ready? I would have accepted any of these names.

Abu Bakar, Umar, Uthman, Ali, Hasan.

You could also have also had Hasane.

I think I probably briefly mentioned him in lessons previously.

These are the caliphs that we have looked at within our lessons so far.

If you've got two out of those, absolutely fantastic.

Well done.

Cause that means that you've really, really tried hard to remember that and that you've remembered some of that key content.

If you've only got one or you didn't get any, that's fine.

But it's so important to make corrections.

So please pause the video now, if you need to make corrections, write them down and unpause and you're ready for the next question please.

Okay, ready for the next question? Good.

I want you to pause and spend about two minutes on this question.

I want you to give two words associated with Tawhid.

So by that, I mean any key words that we can use for the nature of Allah that comes from a belief in Tawhid.

So we'd have looked at three main ideas contained within Tawhid and with that come quite a few different other beliefs and keywords.

I want you to pause the video and give two words associated with Tawhid.

Please do your best, try really hard.

Unpause when you're ready, please.

Okay, ready for corrections? Again, make sure you've got your different coloured pen out ready for corrections.

If you need to go back and add to your answer or you're not quite sure you finished, then you can just rewind and then have another go.

But let's make sure we've got a different coloured pen out.

Let's check our answers.

So I would have accepted any of these words.

First, whole, greatest, those are the three main ideas contained within Tawhid.

Indefinable, indivisible, unique, those are some words we get from the idea of first, whole, and greatest.

Transcendent and omnipotent, of which you could also had creator too, if you had that.

But there are lots of words that are associated Tawhid because when Muslims say that they believe Allah is one, they mean so much more than just saying they believe in one God.

It's talking about the nature of God that he's eternal, that he's first, that he's not broken down into parts, that you can't fully describe him as he's the creator and he's transcendent.

He has no weak parts, so he's omnipotent.

So well done if you got two of those, if you need to make any corrections then please pause the video now, make those corrections and then unpause when you are ready to move onto the next part.

Where we're going to go a little bit more in depth now by us answering some longer questions, but that help us to revise some of those key stories within Islam.

Which is explain the Abrahamic origins of Islam.

Now although this sounds like it could be an exam style question from an exam board paper, this is more just of an explain in our own words question.

So I'm not expecting this to follow any structure for an exam board.

It's just a really good way of being able to explain what we've learned so far.

So we need to make sure that we are writing in full sentences, please.

Make a point and then explain it.

And in this case, I want you to include details of how Ibrahim influenced Islam.

So we need to think carefully about the lesson on Ibrahim , or if you haven't watched the lesson on Ibrahim I want you to think about what you currently already know about Ibrahim and his influence on Islam.

And I want you to pause the video for three minutes and write down some details you can remember in bullet points, please.

So pause the video and write those things down now, please.

Okay, so hopefully you've got some ideas written down.

So what we're I'm going to ask you to do now is I'm going to ask you to pause video on the next slide, to complete your task.

Essentially, I'm going to give you a little bit of a helper with being able to explain what you know about Ibrahim and the Ibrahimic origins of Islam.

So you can see here I've got a structure of what I'd like you to copy out and complete.

Hopefully your bullet points where some of these things that are in this text, but if not, that's absolutely fine.

So wherever there's green bits is where you need to fill in with some information.

So Ibrahim grew up in a? What type of family? And this meant they believed in how many gods? However, Ibrahim agreed or disagreed because he believed in how many? His community tried to do what, but Allah protected him.

Ibrahim and his wife, Sarah wanted? What did they want? But it didn't happen.

Ibrahim had a child with who? And they called the child what? Allah decided to? What did Allah decide to do? And Ibrahim submitted and did as Allah asked.

They went into the desert and could not find? So what could they not find? She searched by? What did she do? But couldn't find any.

When she returned to her child, an angel was stood over him, and then what happened? To thank Allah for his protection, Ibrahim and the son? You need a name.

Built the? What did they build? So what I'm going to need you to do, please is to pause the video, copy out this paragraph and fill in those gaps.

Give it your best shot.

What we're going to do is go through the corrections anyway, but I really, really want you to have a go first.

Think really, really, really hard.

I know perhaps, maybe this is unfamiliar to you or perhaps maybe it's been a while since you've had a look over it, but it's a really good way of recapping.

So pause the video now, have a go at that task please.

Okay, if you can see this screen, then I'm assuming that you are ready to go through corrections.

So please have another coloured pen ready for your corrections.

So we're going to need to make sure that we've got these answers, correct.

If you haven't quite finished, then you can rewind and re pause the video and carry on with your task and then return to me when you're ready.

So we should have Ibrahim grew up in a polytheistic family and this meant they believed in many gods.

However, Ibrahim disagreed because he believed in one God, His community tried to burn him at the stake, but Allah protected him.

Ibrahim and his wife, Sarah wanted a child, but it didn't happen.

Ibrahim had a child with Hagar, his servant or his wife and they called the child Ishmael.

Allah decided to test Ibrahim and told him to send Hagar and Ishmael into the desert and Ibrahim submitted and did as Allah asked.

They went into the desert and could not find water.

She searched by running between two hills seven times, but couldn't find any.

When she returned to her child, an angel was stood over him and dug into the ground and water appeared.

To thank Allah for his protection, Ibrahim and Ishmael built the Kaaba, the first house of God.

If you need to make any corrections, can you please do so now by pausing the video and correcting your answer.

Well done, if you got the majority of that correct.

If there were some mistakes, it's absolutely fine.

This is why we're doing this recap.

So you pause if you need to please and make your corrections.

Okay, the next thing is I'm going to get you to explain two beliefs about Tawhid.

Now, again, these explain questions need to be full sentences, need to make a point, explain it and we should be including details of the key ideas contained within Tawhid.

So would you think carefully about the lesson on Tawhidq and we've also recapped it today.

So even if you can't remember the lesson or you didn't watch the lesson on Tawhid, we have recapped it and hopefully that will help.

So I want you to pause the video for three minutes and bullet point key words we would associate with Tawhid.

So pause the video, three minutes, write view associated with Tawhid.

Okay, if you can see this then we're ready to move on.

If you want a little bit more time to write down your answers, then rewind and pause.

But what I'm going to ask you to pause the video on the next slide to complete your task.

I'm going to give you instructions.

So you can see here, I've said explain two beliefs about Tawhid.

And I've given you here some sets of words, first, creator, indefinable, whole, indivisible, omnipotent, greatest, unique, and Allah's will being supreme.

I'd like you to choose two sets of words to help you write your paragraph because you need to write two beliefs about Tawhid not three.

There are three ideas contained within Tawhid, I'm asking you to explain two of them.

Make sure that you're writing in full sentences and make sure you fully explain.

So you can start off something like, one belief about Tawhid is that Allah is first.

Then use those other two words to describe what that means when Muslims say Allah is first.

So I want you to pause the video, give it a really good go, write in your answer.

I'm sure it'd be absolutely fine, but we will go through corrections and double check that we got it all correct.

So pause the video now, please and have a go at writing your answer.

Okay, if you can see this screen, I'm assuming that you are ready again, to go through corrections.

Please make sure you've got your other coloured pen out.

If you need a bit more time, please rewind the video and pause and continue with your task and then come back to me when you're ready for corrections.

But if not, we're going to move on to the answers.

So what I've tried to do is give an example paragraph for each of them.

So what I've done here is written three paragraphs, you should have written two paragraphs.

But what I've tried to do is make sure that I've given you a model answer for all of those beliefs.

So all three.

So Muslims believe that Allah is first.

As the creator of all things, he has never been created.

In order to create, Allah had to be transcendent, which means outside of space and time.

Humans cannot go outside of space and time, so we cannot experience him.

This makes him indefinable.

We're not able to say what he's like.

That's one paragraph.

Second paragraph Muslims believe that Allah is whole.

This means he cannot be broken down into any parts, he's therefore indivisible.

As he's not been made of many parts, he has no weak points and is therefore omnipresent, all-powerful.

That's the second paragraph, which covers the belief in hope in Tawhid.

Third paragraph, Muslims believe that Allah is greatest.

There are no other gods, and nothing else is like him.

This makes him unique.

If he's greatest, then his will is supreme.

This means everything Allah wants, he gets and that he is in charge.

So essentially what I just need you to do here, if you don't have to have it word for word like mine, but it'd be really, really good if you could perhaps make a small, a couple of corrections, perhaps maybe add a sentence in that you think would be really useful, perhaps, maybe you've used some of the words incorrectly.

So I want you to just go through, pause the video, make corrections if you need to then unpause when you're ready to move on to the next part.

So I'm so impressed so far, cause I know you've been working so hard.

We've done some really, really good work so far.

Now what we're going to move on to is more of an evaluative style question.

Again, it's not going to follow an exam board structure, it's just to get us started on thinking how would we go about putting down what we've learned so far into a question which requires you to think about two sides of an argument.

So we are going to just spend about four minutes on this question.

Who is more important, Ibrahim, or Muhammad, and why? So I want you to pause the video and in your opinion, cause there's no right or wrong answer, it's just about how you justify it.

I want to say, who is more important for a Muslim, Ibrahim or Muhammad and why? So pause the video, have a go, writing down some thoughts.

As I say, we'll talk about that in a moment.

Okay, put some ideas down? Really impressed if you have and you've got some ideas and you've already started thinking about the reasons behind your answer too.

Now with this style of question, I'm going to give you a discuss question.

It looks very similar to things you might get in an exam, but I'm not going to ask you to structure it like an exam question.

We've done that thing, or we'll do that thing in upcoming lessons.

So Ibrahim is more important than Muhammad discuss.

This question needs you to explain reasons for and against the statement.

You need to use what you have learned, but you'll also need a conclusion, which will say which you think is the more convincing side of the argument and why.

And it's always best to use Islamic teachings only.

We're not comparing between religions, we're learning about Islam from Islamic perspective.

So what I'm going to do essentially is give you some ideas to get started with and then give you a chance to write your response.

So I've given you an agree and a disagree some points here.

So agree, you might say that Ibrahim was the patriarch, the father of the religion.

That Ibrahim was the first to fully submit to God.

And that Ibrahim built the Kaaba.

For our disagree side.

You might say, Muhammad is the final prophet, Muhammad received the Qur'an, Muhammad returned the Kaaba to worship one after the Meccans took it over.

Those are a number of points you could include.

There are others, of course.

If you come up with your own ideas, that's absolutely fine.

That's what I want you to get started on essentially.

So what I'm going to ask you to do is to pause the video, to complete your task on the next slide.

I'm going to give you some sentence starters, I'm going to give you some ideas, I'm going to give you some structure for it, and see how you get on.

So I've got here a sort of some sentence structures, start the sentence starters structures for your answer.

The black bits are where you're going to need to write down, what I've put, and the green is where you explain your reasons, explain your ideas.

So some Muslims might think Ibrahim is more important than Muhammad because.

So you would explain some of those reasons discussed in the previous slide, but also giving it a bit more information.

So not just writing that bullet point, but then also explaining about that.

Some Muslims might disagree and think Muhammad is more important than Ibrahim because? And again, don't be explaining reasons discussed on the previous slide.

And then for your conclusion, you should be saying, the stronger side of the argument is to agree or disagree because.

I need to be given two reasons why you think this.

So two reasons to support why one side of the argument is stronger.

This might be the trickiest task of all that we've done so far, but it's so important that we have a go at it.

This sort of evaluative style of discussion is important, not only for your exams, but also important for us to really grapple with what we've learned about Islam so far and in the viewpoint of a Muslim, which is more important? Are they both so important? It's really, really important for helping our understanding.

So I'd like you to do is pause the video and have a really good go at this question for me, please.

I would expect you to spend about 10 to 15 minutes on it.

Sorry is my camera okay? There we go So I'm not going to give you a model answer for this question because there are so many different ways you could explain what you've put in your answer, there's so many different examples I could have used about how we might go into a greater depth.

Essentially, I think if it's something that you really want your teacher to look over and say, "Is this quite right? "Do I need to add anything thing? "Have I explained enough?" That would be a really good idea.

Then we would say, "Can you just jump double check? " Do you think I've written enough?" But I know that you have worked super, super hard today.

We've been doing quite a lot of stuff, a lot of recapping, which means we have to try to remember what we've done previously.

And some of it perhaps, maybe is less familiar to you than other bits.

So I really appreciate you working so hard and persevering and keeping going with that.

Because what you've done today, even though it's tricky, if your brain's hurting, it means that you really learned something today.

I'm going to say a huge, thank you.

And I really hope that I get to see you again soon for another lesson.

I hope you've enjoyed it today.

Thanks, bye.