Religion Presentation Assignment

You will be creating a presentation on one of the main religions of the world. This project will be done in groups of three or four, but you will each receive an individual grade. I will assign the groups and the religions.

Requirements

Ø Your group must cover all the topics under your religion on the Outline of World Religions.

Ø You must describe all the images in your group's section of the PowerPoint presentation.

Ø Each person should talk for 2 - 4 minutes.

Ø You may use notes, but you should have most of your information memorized so you are not reading off your paper.

Grading

_____/10 Talk clearly and loudly. DO NOT READ from a paper. Know your information so that you can explain it in your own words.

_____/15 Understand and describe, in your own words, each of the topics on the Outline of World Religions. Write at least 4 important words on the white-board or on poster paper, and refer to these words while you present. (These will help guide students’ note-taking.)

_____/5 Understand and describe all the images in your part of the PowerPoint show.

______5 During your presentation, I will ask one student in the group the following questions. Where and when did this religion originate? In what areas of the world is it practiced today? Every member of the group will be graded on that one student's response.

_____/35 TOTAL

Research

You will be provided with materials for research in class, but you must take initiative to ensure that you obtain the information you need. A good place to find information about the religions on you own is by using the links on Mr. McGlashan’s World Cultures web page at:

http://www.mcglashan.com/tyler/world/weblinks.htm

The presentation should be done and ready on ___________________.

Outline of World Religions

(These are your presentation topics, AND it is the study guide for the religions test)

Hinduism

1. Origins in Ancient India and the Vedas

2. The Gods: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva

3. The Ganges River, Reincarnation and Karma (77-78)

4. The Caste System (78)

Buddhism

1. Origins in Ancient India, Siddhartha Guatama’s life (79)

2. The Four Noble Truths and the Eight Fold Path (Buddhist views on killing)

3. Buddhist Monks, meditation and life in a monastery

4. Ashoka and the Spread of Buddhism to Asia

Judaism

1. Origins in Mesopotamia, Abraham and the Hebrews, Monotheism (40)

2. Story of Moses and the Exodus

3. Moses and the Ten Commandments

4. Kingdom of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon (41-42)

Christianity

1. The life of Jesus Christ and the disciples, origins in the Roman Empire (160-163)

(2.) The Spread of Christianity, persecution, Constantine and Theodosius

3. The Pope and the Vatican in Rome, Catholicism (164, 205)

4. The Great Schism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity (184-185),

5. Martin Luther, the Reformation and Protestantism (pages 372-383)

(6.) A Review of the three types of Christianity (372-383)

Islam

1. Mohammed and the Hegira (186-187)

2. The Empire of Islam, the Caliphs, and Jihad (188-191)

3. Five Pillars of Islam, Mecca and the Ka’aba (188)

4. The Qur’an (or Koran), and the Shiite/Sunnis split (187, 189)

Ø Each student must know the following basic information about their religion: where and when did the religion begin and people in what areas of the world practice it today? I will ask this information of one student in the group randomly, if they answer well, the whole group will receive 5 points.