Religion and Authority- Lesson 1 WJEC Full Course Year 10

1. *DNA:
Copy up all the keywords in
your books!
Capital punishment
Justice
Rights
Authority
Equality
Law
Punishment
Crime
Bible
Qur’an
Duty
Shari’ah
Haddith
Activist
Campaign
*

2. *
*Learning intentions:
*To explain different
ideas about authority
*To discuss the nature
of rights.
*Success criteria:
*To be able to identify
and explain different
types of authority
*To have assessed the
idea of rights

3. *
The State
(government)
Authority
Religion
Turn your page-
landscape.
You will create an
individual mind map
for each of these
words.
Think about what
they mean/ask your
neighbour?

4. The State
(government)
Authority
Religion
The controlling power in the
country
Having power over something
A system of beliefs about a kind of
higher spiritual power.

5. *
*The are lots of different
possible sources of authority
which can tell us what to do or
how we should be have.

6. The State (Government)

7. Religion

8. Family

9. Friends/ peers

10. *
*Complete this sentence
*I think that the most influential
source of authority
is.....because.....

11. *
*There are certain things you
are entitled to simply
because you are human,
these are things that no-one
can take away from you.
Human
rights

12. *
*A right is something you
are entitled to do, for you
own wellbeing and
protection.
*Task Part 1:
*Stick in your copy of
the declaration of
human rights.
*Highlight or
underline the 5 rights
you think will have
the biggest impact on
people’s lives.
Task part 2:
Now you need to explain why you think
these rights will have the biggest
effect on a person.
In my opinion these rights
have the biggest impact
because......
An example of this is........
This means that people are
better off because.....

13. *
*Find another person in the class who is not on your
table to partner up with.
*Talk each of through your list of rights
*Now explain and justify why
your list is a better one than
their list. (even if you agree
on some of them)

14. *
‘Everyone is entitled to the same
rights regardless of what crimes they
may have committed or whose human
rights they have denied’

15. *
*Write out your own response to this question:
‘Everyone should have the same rights
no matter what they have done’ – do you
agree or disagree, give reasons for your
answers.
I think that......one reason I think this is......
Another reason I think this is........
Some who might disagree with me might say.......
However I think they are wrong because.......

16. *
*Complete this sentence
*‘I have the right to....’