religious+monks

were used to respect God and not to commit harmful crimes

 * The Ten Commandments ||
 * 1 || “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me. ||
 * 2 || “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments. ||
 * 3 || “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. ||
 * 4 || “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it. ||
 * 5 || “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you. ||
 * 6 || “You shall not murder. ||
 * 7 || “You shall not commit adultery. ||
 * 8 || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">“You shall not steal. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">9 || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">10 || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif;">“You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's.” ||

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====2. Read "The Beatitudes" as found in Matthew 15: 1 - 12 [|The Beatitudes: Matthew 5: 1 - 12]. Also, read through the two explanations of the Beatitudes found on the wiki's "Beatitudes" page.==== ==== When this man had saw the crowd he walked to the mountains and had sat down. Then his disciples had come to him and started to teach him about the Saying, They had taught him about the Teachings of The Beatitudes. ====
 * ====Discuss what you have read in your team.====
 * ==== As a team, construct a list of synonyms for the words "Blessed" and "Happy" - you can make two separate lists, upload a table, or do a word web or mind map - be creative! You can start with what is in your heads, and add to this using an online tool such as [|Synonyms online] .====
 * ==== Synonyms of Blessed: Happiness, Pray, Holy, Bless, Hallow, favourable, Successful ====
 * ==== Synonyms of Happy: Blessed, Golden, Blissful, Bright, Cheerful ====
 * ====__ Explain __ what the Beatitudes mean. You must write in complete sentences and use some of your synonyms in your response. (Individually, what does each Beatitude mean? As a whole - What do they mean for us as Christians?...) (Type and label your own answer) . ====
 * ==== Any of the declarations of blessedness that are pronounced by Jesus ====
 * ==== Each of the beatitudes provide a description of life in the kingdom of Heaven ====

3. With this step you have two choices (you must do your own work here...) :

 * ====Read this passage "The Widow's Offering" and __ explain __ in a short paragraph which Beatitudes are illustrated through this passage: [|The parable of the Widow's Offering Mark 1: 41-44] [|Explanation of the parable] (You will receive a C or less on this part of the criteria if you choose this option).====
 * ==== In this parable I think the beatitude that has been illustrated in this passage is 'Blessed are the poor in Spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven'. ====
 * ==== The widow that has put everything she had was more than anyone who has put in to the Treasury Box. ====
 * ====Read more: [|http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_does_it_mean_to_be_marginalized_socially_economically_and_poltically#ixzz1ve11ftup] ====
 * ====OR using your bibles, or searching online, locate a parable or other passage in the New Testament which illustrates one or more of the values from the Beatitudes. Try this as a starting point: [|List of parables] . __Describe__ in your own words which Beatitudes are illustrated in your chosen parable. (for an A or B you must do this option).====
 * ==== The parable i have chosen is 'The Friend in need' the parable also shows the illustrated Beatitude. The Beatitude i think is illustrated in this parable is: 'Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice for they shall be satisfied'. ====

====4. What does it mean to be marginalised or outcast? As a team make a Venn Diagram or other chart which compares who the outcasts or marginalised were in Jesus' time, and who are those left on the margins of society today. (for example... a widow or a tax collector was an outcast in Jesus' time - today, it might be the homeless or refugees...) ====

5. Here again, you have two choices: (complete on your own and label)

 * ====Read one of the scenarios about Human Rights and Children from Amnesty International linked here: [|Scenarios] . __ Explain __ in a short paragraph how this relates to the Beatitudes today. (C response...)====
 * ==== Around the world children have denied their own Human Rights: Ex. The right Education they have now and they have been recruited into armoured forces. They have also been subjected to a Death Penalty, are disappeared but now they have to suffer cruel methods of violence. ====
 * ====OR think about society today - write your own __ description __ of a real life situation where someone is outcast or marginalised. Then, explain how this situation illustrates or relates to the Beatitudes today.====
 * ==== The people who are becoming an outcast by the people who are banning those who might do the right or wrong things. Those people who do any of those things are not to be banned from their society they must be warned. Do not ban anyone for they things they have committed. If they have been banned just because someone tells a lie to make that person feel bad about themselves cannot mean you ban them for Life. ====
 * ==== People that have been denied by others that surround them doesn't mean the have to be punished by what they or others have done. A cruel punishment (A Death Penalty) cannot be made by the choice of Right or Wrong. The people who may suffer from the violence that people have inside of them cannot be blamed on the innocent victims (But those Innocent people had received it, those people who blamed it on the innocent will be found. ====

To complete this challenge, you must write two longer pieces of text:
The Relationship between the things that are Clear and that Provide may support the people and they ways they have made.
 * an __ "explanation" __... to explain is to make the relationship between things clear, or to provide how/why (Question 2, Question 3, Question 5).
 * __Explanation1__
 * a __ "description" __... to describe is to provides characteristics and features of something (Question 3, Question 5).
 * In Question 5 tells us some of the Characteristics and Features of

Your teacher will do a demonstration of how to write a description and how to write an explanation. Other resources to support you in your writing are available here:

Here are the Assessment Criteria for Challenge #2: ====  label and complete some of the required activities, that list or identify information only, //with or without assistance//  ==== || **D** * ==== label and complete some of the required activities, in a basic manner  ==== || **C** || ** B ** * ====  label and complete all required entries, in a detailed and consistent manner, demonstrating reflection on and very good understanding of the subject  ==== || **A** * label and complete all required activities and questions, in a comprehensive and consistent manner, demonstrating depth of reflection on and deep understanding of the subject ||
 * ** E ** *
 * label and complete most of the required activities, in a consistent manner, demonstrating some reflection on and sound understanding of the subject
 * * ** lists ** the Beatitudes and names one or more of the values promoted by the Beatitudes
 * ** reads ** a provided Gospel passage and**identifies** the meaning behind the passage as it relates to the Beatitudes
 * ** reads ** the provided real-life scenario and**describes****briefly**how this situation relates to the Beatitudes || * ** lists ** the Beatitudes and**explains**the meaning of each
 * ** reads a provided Gospel passage ** and**explains** the meaning behind the passage as it relates to the Beatitudes
 * ** reads the provided ** real-life scenario and**explains briefly**how this situation relates to the Beatitudes || * ** describes ** the Beatitudes and**explains**in his own words the meaning of each
 * ** reads ** a provided Gospel passage and**explains in good detail** the meaning behind the passage as it relates to the Beatitudes
 * ** reads ** the provided real-life scenario and**explains** how this situation relates to the Beatitudes || * ** clearly explains ** the values and attitudes promoted by the Beatitudes as they relate to modern life
 * ** locates and explains ** his own relevant Gospel passage/parable which illustrates the values promoted by the Beatitudes
 * ** chooses a situation ** in modern life which demonstrates the need for or existence of the values shown by the Beatitudes and**explains**the need for these values today || * ** clearly, and in detail, explains ** the values and attitudes promoted by the Beatitudes
 * ** locates and explains in detail ** his own relevant Gospel passage/parable which illustrates the values promoted by the Beatitudes
 * ** chooses a situation ** in modern life which demonstrates the need for or existence of the values shown by the Beatitudes and**justifies** the need for these values today

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 26px; text-align: center;">Challenge #3 = = ** IMAGES OF GOOD AND EVIL ** <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 22px; text-align: left;">1. Copy and paste these instructions to your team's page.

2. Brainstorm and create a list of synonyms( words with a similiar meaning) for each of the following terms
 * ==== Good - suberb, saintly, respectable, ====
 * ==== Evil - monstrous, sinister, diabolic, mephistophelian ====
 * ==== Conscience - principles, censor, scruples, superego, demur ====

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff00ff; display: block; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">3. Paste onto your team page two media items( movie,link,clip,)... one that portrays good and the other evil.
 * For each media item, EXPLAIN why each item portrays "good" or "evil"
 * Write a 300 word reflection statement on the following: "What is often accepted as "good" in society is not always "good" in Christian life". Refer to an aspect of mainstream society that your conscience tells you might be acceptable for others, but you know in your heart isn't quite right (eg, consumerism, only wanting name brands, casual/binge drinking, damage to the environment, focussing on being "popular", etc...). Each group member should focus on a different aspect of society to reflect on.

<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; text-align: left;">4. Find the lyrics to a song or poem that promotes good in society.
 * Embed a hyperlink to that song /lyrics on your team page. (see the wiki "help" section for how to hyperlink.
 * EXPLAIN how that song promotes good. Make sure you quote specific lines from the song and explain those lines.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #00ff00; display: block; font-size: 27px; text-align: left;">5. Find a scripture passage that has a positive message that helps shape your life.
 * Copy and paste the scripture passage and its bible reference onto your team page.
 * Write about a time in your life when you had a choice whether or not to "do good". Explain how applying this scripture passage to your life may have helped you with that choice (ie, you didn't choose good, but on reflection could have; or you did choose good, what influenced you?)

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Challenge # 4

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; display: block; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Challenge 4 will push you to think a bit more deeply about the connections between the 10 Commandments, the Beatitudes... and how the WORLD may show us one way of living is "good" but our faith guides us to do more...

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">1. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Visit <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> [|The Caritas Homepage] <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">a <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">What is Caritas? ==== Caritas is a agency supports long-term development programs in impoverished communities in Africa, Asia, East Timor, Latin America, Indigenous Australia and the Pacific. they also help oppressed people to rediscover their dignity by taking greater control over their lives and overcoming poverty. ====

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">b <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">What are the four aims of their programs <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">c <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">How are these four aims connected to the 10 Commandments and the Beatitudes?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">d <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Choose one of the [|Global Issues] on the page (by clicking the link). <span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Each group member must focus on a different issue here, and complete your own responses. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">For the issue you choose, write about the following: <span style="color: #23cda1; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Daniel <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Brandon > If i was to help out this part of the world is to help and to become a doctor, to cure them from a disease that has been spreading to them from other countries around the globe. > People around the globe also not to care for the planet can make the people in the poor countries pollute the world with a revolting smell.
 * Why is this an important issue? The issue that i chose is very important because the people of the poor countries is the world may live or not but those people deserve a chance to live their life as they want it to be. They should live instead of Mums and dads can stop losing their child and not having broken families.
 * What have you learnt about your faith in recent weeks that might lead you to take an interest in this topic? The issue took my interest by the families that are losing their children and having families broken by the diseases found and what made it appear to the people in poor countries. The children can be saved and cured so they can live healthy if we choose to help them in every way possible.
 * List 5 facts about this issue Facts: 1) 8 Millions Children die ever year (22 000 1 child Dies every 4 seconds) die from diseases. 2) Deaths can be caused by Diarrhoea, Measles and Malaria. 3) The poor countries cannot live as long as the wealthiest countries around the world. 4) Poor countries do not have much access to healthcare industries. 5) Health problems are mostly caused by the water in the country they live in.
 * Explain what Australia is doing to help out in this area. Australia can help out this area by doing the best thing for this area because it is part of the world and it must be treated with special care.
 * ==== Describe what YOU could do to help out in this area - beyond giving a donation ====
 * ==== Write a short diary entry about this issue (5 - 6 sentences) from the perspective of a person who does **__not__** have a faith background and who does __**not**__ believe we are responsible for helping others in our world. ====

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">2. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Visit Oxfam **<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">( <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">stands for <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> 'Oxford Committee for Famine Relief' ) **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> via the link below and put yourself in the shoes of a sweatshop worker by either reading a 24 year old worker's blog OR watching Lulu's Story OR playing the Sweatshop Game OR by just choosing your own adventure.. check it out, there's so much to see and do!! <span style="background-color: initial; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">[|Oxfam Australia]

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**3.** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Go to your wardrobe and choose <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">10 <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> items of clothing/ shoes/ accessories and check the tags for the following-

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">** a What is the** **brand?** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**b** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> **Origin of fabric?** <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**c** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> **Where is the item made?**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Don't be shy! List all data on your team site.. this should be interesting. ==== <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">d **<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Make a table on your team page to record your findings. (use the "Table" button when editing your page to insert a table). ** ==== e ** Choose one country where one of your items is made and do a short investigation into how clothing is manufactured in that country. Consider issues such as: **
 * == **age of workers** ==
 * == **working conditions (how many days per week do they work? ventilation? lighting? crowded? sick leave? holidays?)** ==
 * == **pay (per piece? per hour?)** ==
 * == **job protection** ==
 * == **care/consideration for the environment by that company** ==
 * == **access to family** ==
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">f <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">record your findings in dot points o your team page **
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">g. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">reflect... does knowing about how YOUR clothes get made make you think differently about what and from which country you'd buy clothing again? **

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">**4.** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">** a Ask yourself, could one of the** <span style="background-color: initial; color: #ff00ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">[|Sweatshops (check out your fave brands on the left hand side)] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> featured on the Oxfam website have created this garment for you?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">b <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> Do <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">you feel <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">a <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">'change of heart' <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">How do you <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">[|reconcile] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> your thoughts with your actions?

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">c Consider <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">the following- <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">From what you've studied and reflected upon, how do <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">you <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> perceive your future decision making regarding ethically made clothing? = =

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">Create an under <span style="color: #000080; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">1 minute video diary <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">of your response. Make sure to upload it onto <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">your team page