1. Religion Journal
3rd Year Exam Religion
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2. Section One - Introduction
Open page 3 in your Journal
1. Tick: Journal Work on my own
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3. Official Title Look at the next slide and find your official title!
This is the official title given by the Department of Education that you decided to pick
Look at the next slide and find your official title!
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4. A profile of the role a religious leader plays in one community of
faith in Ireland today.
A case study on the way in which one religious organisation is helping people in need today.
A study of the historical background to the founding story of one of
the following major world religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam
or Judaism.
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5. Keep it simple and short!
Next….
You need to come up with your own personal title for your Journal.
Keep it simple and short!
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6. Use your handout to help you
I was interested in…
We studied this topic in class and I found it fascinating…
I want to learn more about…
I wanted to learn about
something interesting…
Use your handout to help you
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7. What did you hope to learn?
You need to fill up all the lines!
Use the worksheet to help you!
Pick 3-4 things you learnt whilst doing your project and say you hoped to learn about them!
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8. Section 2
Getting Started
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9. Preparation Research:
What did you do before you started working on your project?
Research:
Looked in books
Investigated online.
Found good websites.
Talked with my religion teacher.
Brainstorm ideas
Decide how to present your project
Prepare Interview questions
Get images
Collect the information
Problems/Challenges
Internet didn’t work
Couldn’t find books
Printer didn’t work
Didn’t manage my time
I was not very organised
Could not find someone to interview
etc
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10. Section 3
Work
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11. WORK Brainstormed my ideas on a piece of paper
Researched online, in books, in magazines
Watched a Documentary
Visited a centre
Asked somebody if you could interview them
Interviewed somebody
Bought a folder to present work in
Ran some ideas by my teacher
Got images
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12. Section 3 Work Continued
Detailed description of something you did as part of your project.
This can be why you choose to include:
Researching in the library
Interview
What pictures you included and why
Why did you look online?
etc
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13. What did you find the easiest? Hardest? Most interesting?
Were you surprised to learn anything?
What really interested you?
Did you discover you like working on your own or would have preferred a class project?
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14. Section 4
Discoveries
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15. I Learnt…. Show that you learnt something here.
Pick one thing you learnt about whilst doing your
project and write it down in detail.
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16. How did this project impact you?
Did it change the way you think about something?
Will you do anything differently in your life?
For example:
Volunteer with SVP
Be more respectful of other religions
Go to Mass more
Get you know my local priest.
Appreciate what I have
Realise there is a lot I need to learn about world religions.
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17. Tick two skills you used during your project.
Problem-Solving
What problem did you face? How did you overcome it?
Printer wouldn’t work, library wasn’t open, could not find good information.
Organisational Skills
Time keeping, folder to organised work, planning interview, getting work done
on time.
Tick two skills you used during your project.
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18. Talk about how doing this project reminded you of studying two topics in the RE Course
Linking
Foundations of Christianity
Major World Religions
Celebration of Faith
Communities of Faith
The Moral Challenge
The Question of Faith
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19. Identify what went well and didn’t go well.
Why? What would you do again/ not do
again? Why?
State your overall opinion of the project.
Did it go well? Did you enjoy it? What
Would you do differently?
I would recommend…
I would suggest…
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