Year 8 Religion Remarkable People

 

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Intrapersonal

Interpersonal

Picture/Spatial

Body/Kinesthetic
Musical/Rhythmic

Verbal/Linguistic

Logical/Math

RE

 

Remember

 

 

10 points

Question/Activity:

Describe your personal experiences and feelings about your remarkable person in a paragraph.

 

Question/Activity:

Play ‘Celebrity Heads’ in groups.

Tell a partner 10 facts you know about your remarkable person.

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Complete a drawing of your remarkable person suitable for display.

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Explain in a paragraph how your choice became a remarkable person.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Find a recording of a song that deals with the issues of your remarkable person’s life.

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Write 10 facts about your remarkable person.

 

 

Strategy:

5W’s & H

 

Question/Activity:

Construct a time line from your research to show significant events in the life of your chosen person.

This will be included in your presentation.

 

 

 

UN

 

Understanding

 

10 points

Question/Activity:

In what ways are you like your remarkable person?

 

Strategy:

Venn Diagrams

Page 18 student handbook

Question/Activity:

What are the key values of your remarkable person? Write in bullet point form.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Summarise what you know about your remarkable person in a colourful mind map to be included in your presentation.

Strategy:

Mind mapping

Question/Activity:

Explain what you know about your remarkable person in a short role-play of one aspect of his/her life.

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Obtain a recording or play a clear musical example from the era of your remarkable person.

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Restate a paragraph from your research on your remarkable person in your own words using the RAP strategy.

Correctly reference your paragraph.

Strategy:

RAP

 

Question/Activity

Summarise what you know about your remarkable person in a table.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AP

 

Apply

 

15 points

Question/Activity:

If you met your remarkable person what 5 questions would your like to ask?

Strategy:

KWL

 

 

Question/Activity:

Pretend to be your remarkable person and be interviewed by the class.

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Make a frame cartoon to show an episode in your remarkable person’s life.

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Construct a prop to be used in your display that is  relevant to your remarkable person’s life.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Rewrite words of your favourite song, to communicate information about your remarkable person.

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Write a letter that explains how your remarkable person was attracted to their particular field of endeavour.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Prepare an itinerary for a tourist’s visit to the birthplace of your remarkable person.

Strategy:

KWL

 

 

 

 

 

 

AN

 

 

Analyse

 

15 points

Question/Activity:

Explain all the  factors that influenced you in your choice of remarkable person.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Analyse the feelings of your remarkable person during a particular instance in their life. Write or provide an artistic representation of these feelings.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Research the life of your remarkable person and present it in a highly visual way, for example a Power Point Presentation.

 

Question/Activity:

Conduct research on an issue of your remarkable person’s life and present your findings in a series of mimes.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Compare and contrast different types of music used in films or documentaries about your remarkable person.

 

Strategy:

Venn Diagrams

 

Question/Activity:

Write a narrative which explains the concept of a remarkable person and why and how your remarkable person became “remarkable”?

Strategy:

SIDES

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Play 20 Questions.

 

 

 

EV

 

Evaluate

 

25 points

Question/Activity:

Rank your remarkable person’s personality traits from strongest to weakest. Justify your ratings.

 

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Which stage of your remarkable person’s life was the most, challenging, amusing or exciting?  Explain your response.

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Debate the value of 2 or more visual stimuli in terms of communicating your remarkable person’s life and life’s work.

 

Question/Activity:

Which of the training programs, movements or devices best meets the needs of your remarkable person.

 

Question/Activity:

Which of the pieces of music (see activity above) is most effective. Justify your answers.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Discuss whether the remarkable person did the “right”  thing in a controversial situation. Have a pros and cons debate about it.

 

 

 

Question/Activity

Make a detailed list of recommendations for a memorial event in honour of your remarkable person.

 

 

 

 

CR

 

 

 

Create

 

25 points

Question/Activity:

Design a set of 10 criteria for becoming a remarkable person.

 

Strategy :

Decision Making

Page 27 Student Handbook

Question/Activity:

Devise an interview format for your remarkable person set in 2003. You should include at least ten questions and the predicted responses.

 

Question/Activity:

Develop a visual metaphor that represents an aspect of your remarkable person’s life.

 

Question/Activity:

Create a freeze frame to inform people about your remarkable person.

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Create original sounds as a background for your presentation.

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Design five key questions in order to explore an issue of great importance to your remarkable person.

 

 

 

 

Question/Activity:

Develop a graded quiz about your remarkable person.