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Puritanism in the Salem community 
 

 
 

Objectives and Learning Outcomes

Activity 1: Church and community

By the end of these lessons students should have a knowledge and understanding of:

The origins of Salem Puritanism in the Protestant Reformation (At KS3 AT1)

The Christian Church as a community of salvation (At KS3 AT 1) The Christian church as a source of moral guidance (At KS3 AT1)

By the end of these lesson students should be able to reflect upon and evaluate:

The role of community in students’ own lives (At KS3 AT 2)

Activity 2: Authority and transgression

By the end of these lessons students should have a knowledge and understanding of:

The authority of the Bible within Protestant Christianity (At KS3 AT1)

The tension between individual believer and pastor in Protestantism (At KS3 AT1)

The nature of fundamentalism in religious community (At KS3 AT1)

By the end of these lessons students should be able to reflect upon and evaluate:

The role of community in students’ own lives (At KS3 AT 2)

Activity 3: Witches, the Devil and the existence of evil (Part One)

By the end of these lessons students should have a knowledge and understanding of:

The doctrine of the Fall in Christianity (At KS3 AT1)

The concepts of purgatory, hell and heaven (At KS3 AT1)

The origins of the term evil in Christianity (At KS3 AT1)

The definition of a witch, a non-Christian term (At KS3 AT1)

By the end of these lesson students should be able to reflect upon and evaluate:

The experience of evil and suffering in their own lives and in current and historical events (At KS3 AT 2)

Activity 4: Witches, the Devil and the existence of evil (Part Two)

By the end of these lessons students should have a knowledge and understanding of:

The doctrine of the Fall in Christianity (At KS3 AT1)

The concepts of purgatory, hell and heaven (At KS3 AT1)

The origins of the term “evil” in Christianity (At KS3 AT1)

The definition of the witch, a non-Christian term (At KS3 AT1)

By the end of these lessons students should be able to reflect upon and evaluate:

The experience of evil and suffering in their own lives and in current and historical events (At KS3 AT 2)

Activity 5: Visions of utopia - extending learning

By the end of these lessons students should have an advanced knowledge and understanding of:

The origins of the United Nations as an attempted vision of common moral standards, universal human rights (AT KS3 AT1)

The notion of a utopia and its opposite, a ‘dystopia’ (At KS3 AT1)

The notion of totalitarianism (At KS3 AT1)

The development of the United Nations (At KS3 AT1)

McCarthyism in America after the Second World War (At KS3 AT1)

By the end of these lesson students should be able to reflect upon and evaluate the complex philosophical issues of:

The problems around moral universals, including the contemporary doctrine of universal human rights (At KS3 AT 2)

Issues of religious freedom in the world today (At KS3 AT2)

 

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