Unit Sequence

1. How and why do people mark the significant events in life? 

2. What is the significance of baptism for Christians? What happens and what does it mean? 

3. How do many Jewish people mark becoming an adult? 

4. What ceremonies do many Hindus mark in the journey of life? 

5. Why do people choose to get married? What do wedding ceremonies show us about commitment, love, promises? 

6. Why do people choose to get married? What do wedding ceremonies show us about commitment, love, promises? 

Learning Outcomes

• Identify some beliefs about love, commitment and promises in two religious traditions and describe what they mean. 

• Offer informed suggestions about the meaning and importance of ceremonies of commitment for religious and non-religious people today 

• Describe what happens in ceremonies of commitment (e.g. baptism, sacred thread, marriage) and say what these rituals mean. 

• Make simple links between beliefs about love and commitment and how people in at least two religious traditions live (e.g. through celebrating forgiveness, salvation and freedom at festivals) 

• Identify some differences in how people celebrate commitment (e.g. different practices of marriage, or Christian baptism) 

• Raise questions and suggest answers about whether it is good for everyone to see life as journey, and to mark the milestones. 

• Make links between ideas of love, commitment and promises in religious and non-religious ceremonies. 

• Give good reasons why they think ceremonies of commitment are or are not valuable today 

L2.6 Why do some people think that life is a journey? What significant experiences mark this? 

1. Recall and name some of the ways religions mark milestones of commitment (including marriage) (A1). 

2. Identify at least two promises made by believers at these ceremonies and say why they are important (B1). 

3. Suggest why some people see life as a journey and identify some of the key milestones on this journey (A2). 

4. Describe what happens in Christian, Jewish, and/or Hindu ceremonies of commitment and say what these rituals mean (A3). 

5. Suggest reasons why marking the milestones of life are important to Christians, Hindus and/or Jewish people (B2). 

6. Link up some questions and answers about how believers show commitment with their own ideas about community, belonging and belief (C1). 

7. Explain similarities and differences between ceremonies of commitment (B3). 

8. Discuss and present their own ideas about the value and challenge of religious commitment in Britain today (C2).