Bible Lit 2015
2015 Day 1
• As you take a seat, be prepared with 15-20 second
answers to the following:
1-What song expresses you CURRENT mood
2-If you could have a meal with one person from history
(other than God/Jesus/religious figure), who and why
3Would you rather be missing a finger or have 2 extra
4Would you rather work hard for a guaranteed 100, or
do almost no work for a guaranteed 70
5If you could have a third eye, where would you put it
6Would you rather take candy from a baby or tell a child
there is no Santa
7-who is your favorite teacher ever (so far)
“Speed Dating”
• You will have one minute with the person you are
sitting next to, then we will switch. Coach will tell
you which question to answer
1-What song expresses you CURRENT mood
2-If you could have a meal with one person from history
(other than God/Jesus/religious figure), who and why
3Would you rather be missing a finger or have 2 extra
4Would you rather work hard for a guaranteed 100, or
do almost no work for a guaranteed 70
5If you could have a third eye, where would you put it
6Would you rather take candy from a baby or tell a child
there is no Santa
7-who is your favorite teacher ever (so far)
Things you need to know about me
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My background
My family
My duties/responsibilities here
What that means for you
The Point
• Why are you in this class?
What do YOU want to know?
• As a closing activity, we will go around the
room. You will stand, tell me something you
want me to know about you, and ask me
something you want to know about me.
Day 1 Bellringer
• Write “Day 1 Bellringer” and the answer to
the following:
– 2 Things that you know about the Bible
– 2 things you WANT to know about the Bible
– 2 things you WANT to know about this class
Class Announcements
• Goals Night
• Grade/Parent Contact
– zurquhart@desotoisd.org
– Need to email – their name, your name, and
phone. This will be a grade for YOU.
• Sharing – one of each
– 2 Things that you know happened in old history
– 2 HISTORICAL things since you were born
• (1st Black President for example)
– 2 things in YOUR “history” (meaning two
important things in your own life)
The way we roll
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Promptness
Tour of the Room
Dress
Restroom
Phones
Bellringers and getting started
Website
Rules (guidelines, expectations, whatever other euphamistic
word your favorite teacher ever used to say instead of…RULES)
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Be here on time, in dress code, start of class
Have your stuff for class
Take care of what you need on your time
Don’t interrupt if I am in the middle of
something for something inappropriate
Phones…
Options for what class looks like
Doing work/having tests
Failing
Syllabus
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What we are studying
HOW we are going to study it
Daily and Test Grades
Extra Credit
The End game
Key info
• Class website
http://www.desotohs.desotoisd.org/?PageNa
me=TeacherPage&Page=16&StaffID=204755&i
Section=Teachers&CorrespondingID=204755
• Grading Philosophy
• Parent Contact
Day 2 Bellringer
• List as many books of the Bible as you can
without using your phone or any other
resource.
• If your parent hasn’t emailed me the contact
information, make sure they do that today
when you get home. You are getting a grade
(good or bad) for it.
What is the Bible????
• “The Bible” is the Holy book of the _______
religion.
• It consists of two basic parts: the ___ and ___
___________.
• The first half of “The Bible” is also the basis for
the ________ religion.
• The physical writing took about ____ years.
• There are __ types of writing in the OT.
History, Prophecy, Poetry
• With the people in your group, come up with:
– Definition
– Example of this type of writing OTHER THAN IN
THE BIBLE
• For each of those three words at the top
• Take 10 minutes to accomplish this task, and
write them down in your notes
What kind of writing is it
• In the fourteenth year, Kedorlaomer and the kings
allied with him
• “if you will return, o Israel, return to me” declares
the Lord
• Shout it aloud, do not hold back, raise your voice like
a trumpet
• Make a joyful noise to the Lord of all the Earth
• After Abimelech had governed Israel three years
• For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord
• Saul was thirty years old when he became king
• The heavens declare the glory of God
Writing our own
• You are going to write one paragraph
describing or centered around life today, the
way OT passages centered around life at the
time. From your table group, make sure there
is one history, one prophecy, and one poetry
style. Try to make it sound like a Biblical
passage
• We will hear some of these and try to figure
out which category they fit into.
1 What are the three types of writing in the Old
Testament?
2 Find a Bible verse about slavery.
3 Who was the first Israelite to follow God, and thus
be used to “start over”?
4 Who “lead the Israelites out of Egypt?”
5 Find two books named after women.
6 At what age did Jesus start preaching?
7 Find a picture of a Biblical king.
8 Who wrote most of the New Testament?
9 Find a picture of the Ten Commandments.
10 What is the flow of the Bible repeated throughout
the Old Testament?
Day 3 Bellringer
• What are the three types of writing in the Old
Testament
The other half
• What is the second part of the Bible called?
– New Testament
• When was the NT written?
– Between 20ish and 100ish AD
• What is its purpose
– To connect the person and describe the deity of
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• It also has three parts: historical, Pauline, and
general
New Testament History
• Answer the following questions with your
group:
– What OT figures does the New Testament link
Jesus directly to?
– How many “gospels” are there?
– In addition to genealogies, what series of events
do the Gospels recount?
– What is the one non-gospel NT Historical Book?
– What events does it^ describe?
New Testament History
• Answer the following questions with your
group:
– What key OT figures does the New Testament link
Jesus directly to? Adam, Abraham, David,
– How many “gospels” are there? 4
– In addition to genealogies, what series of events
do the Gospels recount? miracles
– What is the one non-gospel NT Historical Book?
Acts (or The Acts of the Apostles)
– What events does it^ describe? 12 disciples
beginning the early church
The Overall Story of the Bible
Introduction
The Bible has an
amazing composition.
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Written over 1600 years
Written by over 40 authors
Written on 3 continents: Asia, Africa, Europe
And it all fits together coherently!
The Bible says it reveals
what we need to know.
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Who God is
God’s good intent for the world
What’s gone wrong with us and our world
How our lives and world can be restored
through God
The Bible reveals these things through
telling a big, overall story.
• Though containing many teachings and
smaller stories, an overall story emerges that
gives the big picture of how God is redeeming
humanity.
• Knowing this overall story helps us make
better sense of the Bible’s parts too. (Analogy
of a novel)
OT Structure
• There are nine “eras” of the Old Testament:
– Creation – the world being made/formed
– Patriarch – start of Hebrew people through
masculine heads of houses
– Exodus – ending Hebrew slavery, leaving Egypt
– Conquest – Hebrew people taking their promised
land when they return from Egypt
– Judges – 400 years of being ruled by judges
– Kingdom – 400 years of monarchy
– Exile – 70 years being led by outsiders
– Return – exiled Jews coming back to rebuild
– Silence – 400 years before start of New Testament
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First Test – Use Notes, no phones
How many books are there in the Bible?
What are the two main parts of the Bible?
What are the three types of writing in each part?
About how long did the Bible take to write?
In what region does the Bible’s action occur?
Purpose: detail the history of _______ people.
What was the Day 5 Bellringer?
What two religions center around the Bible?
What person wrote a large chunk of the NT?
The Bible uses ______ to connect Jesus to David.
Bonus: What are Coach’s kids’ names?
Day 4 Bellringer
• Write 4 sentences about how you (personally)
were made (not the bird’s and the bees), and
how it is that you are here now – as if you are
trying to describe to a child who asks
– “how did people get here?”
Creation Accounts
• Every different people group has its own
creation account. In other words, how did the
Earth come to be, and where did people come
from.
• We will be looking at creation accounts of the
Bible and other early people groups.
– Brainstorm the parts that are needed for a
complete creation account.
Compare the Three
Short description of
the way this culture
Describes the
creation of the
world
Why were humans
created in this story?
Why was the earth
created in this story?
Who created the
earth in this story?
What did the creator
see as the proper
relationship
between the people
and the earth
• For each of three people groups,
you are going to answer these
questions using the links:
• Cherokee
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions
/nchist-twoworlds/1672
• Bible
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions
/nchist-twoworlds/1673
• West African
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions
/nchist-twoworlds/1845
Make your own Creation Account
• This cannot be from the Bible. Include each
part we have been looking at. This needs to be
about half a page.
• List out the points first, then write the half
page.
1-what sport does
Coach U coach?
2-What other class does
he teach this year?
3-Does coach enforce
dress code?
4-What are the 3 types
of writing in the OT?
5-What Indian group did
we look at creation
accounts for?
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6-Who wrote most of the
letters in the NT?
7-What is the first book of
the Bible?
8-How many books are
there total?
9-How long did it take to
write?
10-How many gospels are
there?
B-what are my kids’ names?
(you need both)
For Thursday
• You will make a test. It needs to have 20 MC
questions with three answers each.
– 5 about rules/class procedure/etc
– 5 about structure of the Bible
– 5 about Creation/early stories
– 5 others (dealing with this class) your choice
Day 6 Bellringer
• Think of the OLDEST story you know that
happened to someone in your family
(preferably your great grandparent or
older)…write a two sentence account of the
story
Relevance of Genesis
• Even if you don’t believe IN the Bible,
understanding that many have throughout
history and how that has shaped history is
really the point…here’s Genesis’
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Why we wear clothes
Origin of seven-day week
How and why “sin” entered the world
Reason Jesus died on the cross
Reason we die eventually
Origins of heaven and earth
Stories
• You will have a story to focus on with your group.
You need to have a three minute presentation
about the story and it’s impact, and one full page
visual depiction
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Creation (me)
Adam and Eve
Cain and Abel
The Flood
Tower of Babel
Abraham’s annointing
• Kahoot?
Abraham
• God had created the world, man had sinned,
he had started over with the Flood, and now
he was ready to call out His people
• He did this through Abraham (again, His
power shown largely in His words)
• Abraham begins the “people” of God
• Make a timeline charting the life of Abraham
as seen in Genesis…should have ten events
(can be quickly noted, make sure they’re in
order)
Day 7 Bellringer
• Which of these things do you think COULD be
verified?
– Jesus was Son of God
– Jesus was a real person
– David was king of Israel
– David killed Goliath with a stone
– God told David what to do
After the beginning comes?
• The Book of Exodus picks up the story of God’s
people after they have been made slaves in
Egypt…
• The book begins with a little baby in a basket
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Exodus starts with the baby _____
The _____were enslaved by the _______
____’s daughter found the baby in the river
_____ lived with the king for ____ years
As an adult, Moses was a ____
Moses saw God in the form of a ____ ____
Moses went to ____ to ask for the Jews’ release
God sent 10 _____ to make Pharoah agree
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Exodus starts with the baby Moses
The _Jews_were enslaved by the _Egyptians_
_Pharaoh’s daughter found the baby in the river
_Moses_ lived with the king for _40_ years
As an adult, Moses was a _shepherd___
Moses saw God in the form of a _burning_bush
Moses went to Pharaoh to ask for the Jews’
release
• God sent 10 _plagues_ to make Pharoah agree
The plagues
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jru1APaZlKY
• Your assignment – COMIC STRIP
– 2-4 “panes” or squares, with pictures in each
– Overall point is to show the Pharoah saying no,
then saying ok
– Can be funny, does not have to be
• Final – connection b/t genesis and exodus
The plagues
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Water into blood
Frogs
Lice
Flies
Animals die
Boils
Hail
Locusts
Darkness
1stborn dies
Day 8 Bellringer
• Why did the Pharoah finally agree to let the
people go?
• Follow up
10 Commandments
• Rewrite the 10 commandments in “today’s
language”
• Make sure it is school appropriate (Malyk)
Test
1 How many books are in the Bible?
2 What was the LAST plague?
3 On what # day did God rest?
4 Who told Eve to eat the bad fruit?
5 What book talks about Moses?
6 What did the people try to build that made God
angry?
7 Who did God anoint as the first of “His” people?
8 1st Murder: ______ killed _____
9 What is the first commandment?
10 Moses saw God as a ______?
Short Lesson
• You will be writing a five minute “lecture” on
the first three books of the Bible. This can be
about one book or an overview of all of them.
• You will have time today, and time next class
before presenting the class after that.
• You will have note cards or a short bullet point
list, but you cannot READ it.
Day 9 Bellringer
• How can you get someone’s attention quickly?
• Examples of attention getters
Day 10 Bellringer
• Should we believe everything we hear?
• WE WILL BEGIN PRESENTATIONS TEN
MINUTES AFTER THE BELL
• Validity – what does that mean?
• How can we tell if something is valid?
Presentation Notes
• You will be writing notes while they present.
You need 1 thing you learned, 1 question you
have, 1 thing they did well, 1 thing they need
to improve.
Day 11 Bellringer
• What’s the longest road trip you have ever
been on – was it (the travel) fun?
Numbers-eronomy
• Numbers – details the 40 year journey
through the wilderness. We can get bogged
down in a lot of history, but the purpose is to
show the eventual freedom from exile.
• Deuteronomy – the “second law,” this book
establishes the new way of life for the Jewish
people as they are once again on their own.
There are a bunch of laws, but the point is to
show that God wants a freedom for his people
that they have not been experiencing.
Joshua
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyaAGeR
BiAY
Newspaper Article
• You are going to write a newspaper article
covering the battle as if it just happened. First,
we will look at two examples of real articles
after battles, then you will write your account.
• This will be a daily grade, but can be a test
grade if you do really well.
• BATTLE OF ANTIETAM CREEK.; Full Particulars from Our Special Correspondent.
The Most Stupendous Struggle of Modern Times. The Battle Won by
Consummate Generalship. The Rebel Losses Estimated as High as Thirty
Thousand. A GREAT NUMBER OF PRISONERS CAPTURED.
• Published: September 20, 1862
• BATTLE-FIELD OF ANTIETAM CREEK,
• Thursday, Sept. 18, 1862.
• Another great battle has been fought, and the cause of the Union has once more
been vindicated upon one of the most bloody and well-contested fields known to
ancient or modern times. Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1862, will, we predict, hereafter
be looked upon as an epoch in the history of the rebellion, from which will date
the inauguration of its downfall. On that day about one hundred and sixty
thousand men met in deadly strife upon the field of Antietam -- a name which
will occupy a leading position in the history of the war -- and there, marshaled by
brave and able men, fought with a desperation and courage never before
excelled, and rarely, if ever equaled, for twelve hours, leaving the Union army in
possession of the contested ground. This victory was not gained, however,
without the sacrifice of many valuable lives, and the maiming of thousands of
individuals.
• PRECEDING EVENTS.
Day 12 Bellringer
• What Biblical character wore a “coat of many
colors?”
Story of Joseph
• Starts with story of Jacob/Israel
– Jacob steals his brother’s blessing
– Jacob marries two sisters – only kind of his fault
– Jacob ends up with 12 sons (four baby mommas)
• Jacob loves his second youngest, Joseph, best
– Joseph was a “dreamer” but no, really he was
– Joseph was used to “spy” on his brothers
– Joseph was given a pretty jacket
• Things get real
• Joseph goes to the field to check on them
– They see him coming, steal his jacket, beat him
– They first decide to kill him, then sell him instead
• Jacob (dad) is sad, now Benjamin is his fave
• Joseph, in slavery, starts interpreting dreams
– The king starts using him
– He becomes the king’s right hand man
• Brothers need food, they go to him (unknown)
– He recognizes them, gives food, sets them up
– He tests them, but also makes sure his bro is OK
– He reveals himself and shows mercy, not revenge
Cycle seen in Judges
• God’s people wanted someone in charge (why
is that a problem)
• God gave them judges to judge/settle issues.
They fell into a pattern of sinning/doing
wrong, then needing help and coming back to
God (like that boyfriend you know you should
leave, but he comes back so cute looking)
Find 5
• Find 5 instances in the book of Judges of God’s
people turning away, then coming back when
they needed help.
Day 13 Bellringer
• What is the role of women in the Bible
Ruth
• Ruth tells the story of a woman who marries
into a Jewish family, but then her husband
dies. She goes back to Bethlehem with her
mother-in-law, which is not necessarily the
smartest thing to do. She ends up marrying
Boaz, and their son is Obed, whose son is
Jesse, whose son is David…yep, THAT David.
D’Ruth-tavia
• You are going to rewrite Ruth in a modern
telling. It needs to clearly be the same overall
story, just in today’s terms. We will share the
best few.
Test
1- Who was Ruth’s great grandson?
2- What battle did the book of Joshua describe?
3- What book details the “second law?”
4- Who wore a coat of many colors?
5- Who was his^ dad?
6- What do his brothers do to him?
7- What does he do to anger them?
8- What cycle is repeated through the old test.
9- What group of people is in charge in Israel?
10- Who does Ruth end up marrying?
Day 14 Bellringer
• Who is David in the Bible (if you don’t know,
look it up). Answer with 2-3 sentences
Getting to King David
• Who was in charge/ruling in Israel?
• Who led in nearby areas?
• What is good/bad about that?
Kings?
• What are good things about kings
• What are bad things?
Timeline from Saul to David
• Once Israel decided to get a king, God gave
them Saul. How did he become king, how did
he lose his position, and how did David take
over?
• You will make a timeline with ten events – this
needs to go in order and show how David
became king, starting with Saul becoming
king.
• Video on David in history
• Write a one page paper about what we know
about David, and specifically comparing the
historical view of him to the Biblical view.
Day 15 Bellringer
• Who is David (we will compare today to last
class’ thoughts)
• What makes a good leader or a bad one?
• Examples: Obama, Clinton, Bush II, Jason
Garrett, Caesar, Washington, Hitler, Dr. Lamb
quiz
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Who was his father?
What was his birth order
How was he described b/f goliath
What made him think he could win
What was his weapon
Who was his best friend
How did he become king
Who was “the girl”
What did he do to her husband
What made him noted in God’s word
First Paragraph
• You are going to write the first paragraph for a
paper about David, as if writing a long essay
on him. The paper needs to be researched, so
you will find sources (that must be good ones
to use), and the paragraph needs to reflect the
body of the faux-ssay
Day 16 Bellringer
• Why is so much time spent on David in the
Bible?
• Video clips
• discussion
David’s Test