Mr. Bader; Bible III Syllabus

This is a new course that is being developed and it will focus on five main areas. These areas are the Bible, culture, history, practical application, and making life-shaping decisions. The Bible section will touch on the overall content of the Bible story, God’s purpose behind the story, and our connection to that story. The culture section will address how culture affects us, how culture impacts our view of God and others, and how to interact and respect other cultures as we reach out to them. The History section will address how God has continued his purpose and plan throughout history after the Bible was written, lessons we can learn from the challenges, successes, and shortcomings of people in the past and how we can apply those lessons to our world today. The practical section will focus on how to connect with God and live out a life that is God focused. Finally the life-shaping decisions section wills how to use our use our resources and abilities to honor God and make good choices regarding our future careers.

Rather than addressing each section as a separate unit each unit will address some key themes from each of the different sections

At the End of the Course you should:

• Be able to give an overview of the story of the Bible and explain God’s purpose regarding it
• Understand how culture affects our relationship with God and others
• Summarize the major eras in the history of the Church
• Practically apply spiritual concepts and practices to your life
• Understand God’s perspective when it comes to making life choices 

1st Semester

Unit 1: The Bible from Genesis to Revelation, God’s view of Culture, History of the Early Church (era one), personal intimacy with God, and Career stewardship.

Unit 2: God’s purpose of Relationship with us as seen in the Bible, Christianity is for all cultures, History of the Imperial Church (era two), spiritual passion, and how your talents relate to your career plan

Semester Final: Will be either a project or an exam

2nd Semester

Unit 3: Our part in God’s purpose as seen in the Bible, Christian culture in a Global world, History of the Dark Ages of the Church (era three), living in Christian community, and determining God’s will and making wise choices

Unit 4: The Kingdom of God, how Christians can live incarnationally, History of the Reformation (era four) reaching out and sharing the Gospel, and honoring God with your career and life choices

*Unit 5: Spiritual warfare and growth as seen in the Bible, and the Church in the Modern Age (era five)

Semester Final: Will be either a project or an exam

Community Service:

Twice a month, you will receive a grade for your preparation, participation and reflection, may require some planning and prep, extra credit may be given to those who are generous, demonstrate leadership and compassion. If you are absent from a trip for any reason you must make up the grade by staying after school to help an Elementary teacher. You will be given the option of having one exemption per semester. An exemption will not help or hurt your grade. After your 1 exemption if are absent for a trip and you will get a 0 for the trip until you make up the grade. You will have until the next class trip to make up the grade.

Grading

40% Acquisition of Material (the process of learning the material)

Acquisition of the Material will include classwork assignments and participation in activities. You will be expected to check, revise and fix your classwork until it is done correctly. You will get a zero for any incorrect (unfixed) but once it is turned in correct (fixed) you will get credit for your work. If you have to fix it once you will lose one point, and if you have to fix it more than once you may lose more points but you will not get any point until it is done correctly.  You will also need to development and revise projects by asking for feedback and checking to make sure they are done correctly (however, you will not be able to fix or revise projects once they are due). 

60% Mastery of the Material (demonstrating that you understand and can use the material)

Mastery of the Material will include tests, quizzes and projects/presentations/products. You will have a variety of different ways that you will be able to demonstrate your mastery of the material. You need to make sure that you do your best work on these assignments and get feedback on them before they are done to make sure that they are done correctly.