1.1+Overview+Belief+and+believers

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 * Inquiry Title: Beliefs and Believers || ====Year Nine 2011 ==== ||
 * **Fertile Question: How does the Holy Spirit work in and through people in the Christian Church and in this community? ** || Don't forget the Holy Spirit e conference

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 * = [[image:http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15823616/RE2011.png]] Area 1: Who/What is the "Holy Spirit" for Christians ? =

**Core Content Area 1: Who or what is the Holy Spirit for Christians?** //**Topic Questions:** What is spirit? (Team spirit, school spirit, spirit of Anzacs) Is this the same as spirituality? (Way we look at life/reality) What about spirits/ghosts? (Holy Ghost) What do we mean by "holy"? Where is there reference to the Spirit, Spirit of God, Spirit of Jesus in the Christian scriptures? Where and what is the Christian story of the coming of the Holy Spirit? How is the Holy Spirit associated with the word/s: Pentecost, Paraclete? //

**1.3 What is the story of Pentecost?**
Resources: (e.g.) RESource Melbourne; Teacher Background; Calendar; Biblegateway; Possible Assessment Task: A "Poster"/Billboard/Word wall/cartoon strip etc which clearly synthesises the Christian understanding of the __sources of belief in__ the Holy Spirit in Christian teaching and life.

=Core Content Area 2: The Holy Spirit as part of the Christian Trinity = //**Topic Questions:** Is the Holy Spirit God? Who says so? (Scriptures, Creed, CCCC;) Do all Christians believe the same thing about the Holy Spirit? What do Christians believe the Holy Spirit does for people? (Gifts, Fruits of the Spirit; reminders, inspiration, consolation; provokes in absence); Sign of the Cross; God's multiple presences with us in the multitude of God's creation. //

**2.3 What are the gifts of the Holy Spirit? **
Resources: (e.g.) CCCC; Biblegateway; Melbourne RESource; Possible Assessment Task/s: Shape collage with creed, or gifts or how HS shapes people; Multiple presences of God in world; Section on Holy Spirit in Creed, with questions under; Code breaking text of creed on HS; Depiction of God as Trinity.

=<span style="background-color: #0000ff; border-collapse: separate; color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-left: 19.85pt;">Core Content Area 3: Expressions of the Holy Spirit across history = //**<span style="border-collapse: separate; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-left: 19.85pt;">﻿Topic Questions: **<span style="display: inline !important; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">How do different Christian communities express their belief in the Holy Spirit? The Church as the Age of the Spirit. How has the Holy Spirit been depicted in art across history and cultures? Are there modern expressions? How has the Holy Spirit been honoured in prayer and music across cultures? Where does the Holy Spirit feature in Christian prayer and liturgy and the Church's seasons? (Sign of the cross; epiclesis; laying on of hands; healing; appointing; welcoming, initiating, sacraments) What titles has the Holy Spirit been given across history? What symbols and metaphors are used to help people understand and relate to the Holy Spirit? (including feminine) What symbols, music, metaphors might suit the depiction of the Holy Spirit for today's believers? //

**3.3 What are the symbols for the Holy Spirit?**
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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Outcome: ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Skills**
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will be able to: Use multimodal tools to synthesise Christian belief in the Holy Spirit as God and personal guide in the life of the Church and the lives of individual Christians. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Knowledge**
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will know: the origins and sources of the Christian concept of God as Trinity; some of the representations of the Holy Spirit across cultures and history. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Understandings**
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Students will understand that: new understandings and representations of the Holy Spirit in the world today are possible by exploring previous depictions and applications across time and cultures. ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Thinking Tools** ==== ||
 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Why? (For your students: At this age? At this time? At this developmental level? In this community? In this culture?)** ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Could include links to calendar
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 * ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Assessment Items** : Folio of tasks- from Core content Areas 1 & 2. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plus culminating task:
====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 19.85pt; text-indent: -14.2pt;">You have been commissioned by a Christian community to design and create a multimodal depiction of The Holy Spirit in the world today titled "Receive the Power". They have specified that the depiction must reflect the following elements: ==== ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 19.85pt; text-indent: -14.2pt;">· Included with the depiction there must be your personal reflection as creator about the beliefs which motivated/inspired/underpinned your choice of media and expression. ====
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 19.85pt; text-indent: -14.2pt;">Christian belief about the Holy Spirit ====
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 19.85pt; text-indent: -14.2pt;">Reference to Scripture or a scriptural theme (e.g breath, wind, fire, laying of hands) ====
 * ====<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 19.85pt; text-indent: -14.2pt;">Appropriate symbols/music/images ====

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Pecha Kucha (Cathy); hymn with images; Litany with images and sound; a piece of art; sculpture; collection of images from web (collage grid) ; stained class window; creating cards to use in prayer reflection.

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