Unit Sequence

1. What matters most to Humanists and to Christians? Rules: do we need them? Who breaks them?

2. Who is a Humanist? What codes for living do non-religious people use?

3. Who is a Humanist? What codes for living do non-religious people use?

4. What values matter most to Christians? How does it show? How can our different values be discussed?

5. How do Humanists and Christians know how to act? What do they base their decisions on?

6. What matters most to Humanists and to Christians?

Learning Outcomes

• Identify and explain beliefs about why people are good and bad (e.g. Christian and Humanist)

• Make links with sources of authority that tell people how to be good (e.g. Christian ideas of ‘being made in the image of God’ but ‘fallen’, and Humanists saying people can be ‘good without God’)

• Make clear connections between Christian and Humanist ideas about being good and how people live

• Suggest reasons why it might be helpful to follow a moral code and why it might be difficult, offering different points of view

• Give evidence and examples to show how Jewish people put their beliefs into practice in different ways (e.g. some differences between orthodox and progressive Jewish practice)

• Raise important questions and suggest answers about how and why people should be good

• Make connections between the values studied and their own lives, and their importance in the world today, giving good reasons for their views

U2.7 What matters most to Christians and Humanists?

1. Identify the values found in stories and texts (A2).

2. Suggest ideas about why humans can be both good and bad, making links with Christian ideas (B3).

3. Describe what Christians mean about humans being made in the image of God and being ‘fallen’, giving examples (A2).

4. Describe some Christian and Humanist values simply (B3).

5. Express their own ideas about some big moral concepts, such as fairness, honesty etc., comparing them with the ideas of others they have studied (C3).

6. Suggest reasons why it might be helpful to follow a moral code and why it might be difficult, offering different points of view (B2).

7. Give examples of similarities and differences between Christian and Humanist values (B3).

8. Apply ideas about what really matters in life for themselves, including ideas about fairness, freedom, truth, peace, in the light of their learning (C2).