Malala's story

Class Carberry are studying about life in Palestine under Roman rule at the time of Jesus. Today we were discussing examples of repressive governments and what life must be like in those countries today. We spoke about Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, the education campaigner shot by the Taliban because they had banned girls from attending school and Malala was very vocal on her views about promoting education for girls.

Watch the videos below and answer the following questions:

1. What country is Malala from?
2. Who took over the Swat area?
3. God loves you more if you are forced to wear a beard - True or False?
4. Name three changes the new rulers made in Swat?
5. How did Malala respond to the new rules regarding education?
6. How did the new rulers react to Malala's efforts?

Listen to Malala speak here.



and read her diary entries for the BBC here.

Diary of a Pakistani school girl http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834402.stm

Read more about Malala at Wikipedia.

Naill Mellon work and the MDG's

We've been researching the Millennium Development Goals in TY Religion class. Daina and her group shared this video about the work of the Niall Mellon Township with us.




Watch the video and think about how someone's life is changed by the simple opportunity to get a decent home to live in.

The Synoptic Gospels - an exercise

The first three Gospels are very alike. They are sometimes called the Synoptic Gospels. They share a lot in common.

Listen carefully to this as three accounts of the miracle story 'Jesus calms a storm' is told.

Whats is the same in all three Gospel accounts?

What is different?




Images for this video from http://www.freebibleimages.org/ under creative commons licence.

What happened at Pentecost?

Here is a creative video on the story of Pentecost.

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