Transcript You need to find out what Jews & Muslims do when babies are born

To learn about the
ceremonies that take
place in Islam & in
Judaism when a baby
is born.
Last RE lesson we talked about the ceremonies
in Christianity that take place when a baby is
born.
What things can you remember?
There is a passage in the Bible (the Christian
Holy Book) that says:
‘Train a child in the way he should go, & when
he is old he will not turn from it.’
(Proverbs 22:6)
What do you think?
Should children be brought up learning about
their parent’s religion or should they have no
religious teaching & be free to choose their
religion when they are older?
Explain what you think…
You need to find out about what Jews &
Muslims do when babies are born.
You will work in pairs – each pair needs a
sheet of A4 plain paper & a coloured pen.
Pairs will either look at what Jews do or what
Muslims do – I will tell you which religion you
are going to look at!
If you are looking at Jews, draw a brainstorm
& write in the centre: What do Jews do when a
baby is born?
If you are looking at Muslims, draw a
brainstorm & write in the centre: What do
Muslims do when a baby is born?
These text books will help you with your
research:
Jews
‘Discovering Religions: Judaism’, page 44
‘The Jewish Experience’, page 31
Muslims
‘Discovering Religions: Islam’, page 44
You need to write down, in your own words, as
much as you can find out.
Your task was:
You need to find out what Jews & Muslims do
when babies are born.
In your pair you have found out about one of the
two religions’ ceremonies when a baby is born.
Now you need to join another pair who have
found out about the other religion – I will tell you
which pair you’re going to join.
Now, as a group of 4 you need to look at both
of your brainstorms & look at the differences &
similarities between the two religions.
What did you find out?
Now, in your exercise books you need to draw a
Venn diagram – what is a Venn diagram?
You need to label one side of the diagram:
What Jews do when babies are born.
You need to label the other side of the diagram:
What Muslims do when babies are born.
The centre of the diagram is where you record
the things that are the same in the 2 religions.
The two sides of the diagram are where you
record the things that are different about the 2
religions.
You can either write your facts as bullet points
or as paragraphs.
You could sum up ceremonies that
celebrate babies being born in Christianity,
Judaism & Islam as being about:
Willies, Water & Whispering (!)
Can you explain what this means?