a. Pretend you are
a Prophet.....what message would you deliver? What issue is important to you?
You are to make a Soapbox, gather information on your issue - through interviews, media
reports and research, write a speech naming your concerns/issues, identify the harmful
effects, and, give a possible course of action to try and change the situation. Then
deliver your speech! Remember to hand in your speech to your teacher for evaluating. |
| b. What message of hope... could you
deliver today? Write a prophecy for our time beginning with the word "Hey!" The
vision of the dry bones coming to life helped Ezekiel understand that God would breathe
new life into Israel. A prophecy for today should be a message of goodwill that gives hope
for the future. |
c. Create a Street
Theatre production with a group of classmates. These have to come to a consensus about
what issue is important today, then work together to create a Street Theatre.
(The number of students is limited to four for this activity - remember
to get approval from your teacher first). |
| d. Draw parallels between the
Prophets in the Bible and those today.... announce these parallels in a creative way - a
rap song, a poster, banner, or radio announcement. |
| e. Script a play
about a prophet of your choice: one from the Bible and one from today, and merge them. |
| f. Write Individual Journal on the
topic "What hope is there for our society today?" What are some things that you
are hopeful for? Imagine God is speaking words of hope to you. What is God saying? This is
to be 2 pages in length. |
| g. Write a poem on
"Hope". |
| h. List similarities between Hebrew
and contemporary prophets and create a Venn Diagram |
| i. Read
Lamentations Chapter 1, "The Deserted City". In a PowerPoint Presentation,
describe how you think the Israelites felt over the loss of their homes, their freedom,
their capital and their temple. Choose a situation where you have felt a loss - a
grandparent dying, losing a pet, or moving away to another city - and in a poem or song
describe how this loss felt. |
| j. Read Jeremiah 37.14 - 15
"Jeremiah is Arrested" and Jeremiah 38.6. Identify what Jeremiah had to endure
for the sake of delivering God's message. Show the ways that Artists through the centuries
have depicted Jeremiah and create your own drawing in the style of one of the Masters. |
| k. Read
Lamentations Chapter 1, "The Deserted City". Relate this to the situation many
refugees are facing when coming to Australia. Follow the life of a child in the detention
camps and relate this story to the story described in Lamentations. |
| l. Read Jeremiah 7.1 - 14
"Jeremiah Proclaims God's Judgement on the Nation". Use Mirrored Reductions to
explain Jeremiah's message. |
| m. Read Jeremiah
29.1, 4 - 14, "Jeremiah's Letter to the Exiles in Babylon". Write a letter from
Jeremiah to the Exiles. Include a new message of hope Jeremiah is giving to the
Israelites. |
| n. Read Ezekiel 1.1, 4 - 11, 15, 16,
18, 22, 23, 26 - 28, "The Vision of the Chariot" and design an art form for this
vision. |
o. Read Isaiah
40.1 - 5, 44.26 and summarise Second Isaiah's prophecies. Reflect and/or journal on the
following questions:
- What hope is there for our society today?
- What are some things that you are hopeful for?
- Imagine God is speaking words of hope to you. What
is God saying?
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p. The prophets and the Exile teach
us about hope.
- Never lose hope because God is always with us
- Work with God to help hope come true. Write a
statement about what it means to have hope.
List problems that challenge our world today, eg.
war, poverty etc. Number the problems from 1 to 10 in the order that shows the problems
that most strongly call for Christian hope. Explain what you can do about these problems
to show you have hope in God. |
| q. Design a
"Hope" montage of images and explain to the others in the class how your images
are images of hope for you. |
| r. Identify what the Prophets (both
in the Bible and in modern times) had to endure for the sake of their message. Draw a
cartoon of the Prophet from the Bible talking to a Prophet from Australia. |
