1. Do Now: How would you respond to the Dalai Lama when he said the following:

2. The week ahead  Thursday: continue with projects, put on poster boards  Friday: main idea quiz, peer assess, finish projects and grade them  Next week: The Crusades, quiz on Friday  Week after: The Renaissance, test on Friday

3. Focus of religion Provides answers & comfort Explain unknown problems Explain strong emotional feelings Connect society Explain suffering To a problem For a concern To a fear

4. Create your own religion  You will work with your assigned partner or a small group (must be approved by Miss Skiba first, and maximum amount per group is 3 people)  You and your group members will use what you know about religion to create your own religion  How do you do this?

5. Project Details  You will create a religion by doing the following:  Make a name, deity, beliefs, rituals, followers, sacred symbol, sacred text, leader, & big reward  Have them all related to each other  Use what you know about religion being unifying and divisive and apply it  Show original ideas and be creative by applying it to a poster board

6. Huffington Post Examples What similarity do you notice about the projects shown?

7. Religion of Skibbism Practice throughout the world by all JETS fans  (deity) Ski-Skilly  monotheistic  Comforts the anxiety of JETS fans  Provides hope that the JETS will have a better season

8. Followers  Skibbites  All JETS fans who are losing hope that our team will never win another Super Bowl  Work together to help other Skibbites through the difficult months of August-February  Provide support groups led by LT to maintain our sanity and help transition followers out of a season of defeat and into March Madness  Gives each other feelings of hope and excitement that the JETS will improve even in the most difficult of times

9. Beliefs  The JETS are the best football team  Ski-Skilly will bring judgment day when the JETS will play in the Super Bowl and win their 2 nd championship  Ski-Skilly will bring Fireman Ed back to us  Ski-Skilly will bring back Darrelle Revis, Braylon Edwards, Dustin Keller, and Shonn Greene to us

10. Rituals  Pray to Ski-Skilly before every game so the JETS will win  Retweet players’ tweets two times a day  Spray any and all haters in public settings  Make a pilgrimage to MetLife stadium at least once a year in which you must tailgate prior to kick off and participate in a Ski-Skilly prayer session among fans  Chant like Fireman Ed during every game  Celebrate Sept 24 th every year as Revis Island Day. This marks the day that player Darell Revis ended his holdout and returned to the JETS.  Wear a NYJ jersey on every game day  Hang a JETS flag outside of our living quarters from the end of August until the beginning of February

11. Another belief  The JETS haven’t won the Super Bowl since 1969 because their judgment day in this competition will be against the Patriots in the sweetest victory ever

12. Sacred Symbol  The Jet Plane  We worship it…..it’ll take us to Revis Island

13. Sacred Text  The 1969 NJY Super Bowl Championship yearbook  This guides our spiritual way of life

14. Leader  Fireman Ed (currently resigned)  F.M.E. is Ski-Skilly but in human form  JETS fans look to him to help lead them in faith  He leads our ritual prayer on game days; J-E-T-S, JETS, JETS, JETS  He interprets the messages from Ski-Skilly  Forbidden to interact with Patiots fans and radio host Mike Francesa  Ex-communicates Skibbites if we break this rule

15. The Big Reward  Believing in Skibbism will bring the JETS a Super Bowl championship  They will make trades and get back all their players from the 2011 season to play in the Super Bowl  Mark Sanchez will be reincarnated as goal post  Mike Francesa will lose all 1 st amendment rights  We will one day visit Revis Island

16. Society Questionnaire  With your partner(s) read the questionnaire and complete your religion requirements as a group  *Each person must fill one out!

17. Figuring out your religion  Answer to Q #1. Create a protector or protectors of this fear. This is your deity (or deities).  Answer to Q #2. Give your deity (deities) powers to control this. These are your beliefs.  Answer to Q #3. Give your deity another power. This is another belief.  Answer to Q #4. Create a daily, weekly, or monthly practice for this. It is your rituals.  Answer to Q #5. Make up a reason for this. It is another belief.  Answer to Q #6. Predict how this can be prevented. This is what makes followers continue to believe and the “what-if” scenario if rituals aren’t followed.  Answer to Q #7. Make your religion appealing to others. Why would anyone want to believe in your religion? This is your “big reward”.

18. Creating a deity  Name  Have it or them be in charge of something  Figure out how people are reminded of it  Say how it is worshiped

19. Due by the end of class  A sheet from EACH PERSON with your 9 requirements of your religion