Year 7 – RS Extended Homework Project. Due: Thursday 15th October 2015

on board… Our destination today is New York!

Lets look at our journey… Dudley New York

Disaster!!!

Lets look at our journey… Dudley New York Disaster Zone!

Attention Year 7 Shipmates! You must complete at least 2 of the pathways in order to discover your new Island. You and 20 others survived and were washed up onto an uninhabited Island. Present your work in any way you choose e.g. PowerPoint, Booklet etc (be independent!). Aim to spend around 10 hours on your project. Be as imaginative as you can!

Pathways Pathway 1 Discovering your surroundings. Pathway 2 Creating your Island. Pathway 3 Designing your rules. Pathway 4 Message in a bottle Bonus Pathway Creation – CHALLENGE! You must complete at least 2 of the pathways in order to discover your new Island. It is up to you which pathway you choose to follow! You can choose to complete more than one pathway if you wish, this will be taken into account when deciding your performance grade. There is also a bonus Pathway you can complete instead of your chosen two pathways or as an additional task.

Pathway 1 - Check out the island The captain needs you to help check out the island to see if it is safe to go onto the land. You will then need to report back to the captain to tell him what you have discovered. Use your imagination! – What resources might be there? What dangers might you face? etc.

Pathway 2 – Map out what you now know about the island and what you have discovered (draw your own map, and be as creative as you can be!). Think about what you ‘saw’ when you were sat on the beach. You might want to add some of these details to your map. What is good about being on the island?

Reality check! This island should not be here & therefore, no-one is aware of it. We are unlikely to be found. We must survive by making good use of the resources saved from the ship and whatever is available on the island.

Religious people believe that beliefs should affect the way in which you live and behave – towards the world and everything in it. All religions have moral codes – a set of rules or guidelines that tells them how to live a good life. Pathway 3 - Write your own moral code for your Island. You should be able to explain HOW and WHY people should treat the environment and each other. G & T Stretch Challenge… Can you find an example in the news where people are not treating each other properly?

message_in_bottle1.jpg Pathway 4 - Write a message in a bottle! (please don’t use an actual bottle!) You need to write something to send out to the rest of the world to explain what you have learnt from your time on the island. Think carefully about what you will write and how to present it. This may be your only chance to tell people what you think! G & T Stretch Challenge…… If you found the bottle with the message in it, what would your response be?

Bonus Pathway - Write your own creation story! Bonus Pathway - Write your own creation story! In R.S you will be thinking about creation. You now have to write your own story about the origins of the Island (how it came to be). Think… How will your story be passed on to future generations? What messages do you want people to learn from the story? How might believing the story affect the way that people live on the Island?