Directly Taught Sample Lesson 2

Objectives:

• Dimensions of Learning: Students will apply the knowledge of making choices to their lives in a meaningful manner.
• Content:
1. Students will learn that there are always choices to make.
2. Students will become familiar with the story of Elijah on Mount Carmel and the issue of making spiritual choices.
• Social Skills:
1. Students will listen politely to each other.
2. Students will participate in whole class discussion.

Materials:

Warm-Up: Anecdote (personal experience)
I was given theater tickets for a famous play which related to school work. The play started one and a half hours before sunset on Friday. The dilemma — to go or not to go? I went and stayed past the setting of the sun. Feeling guilty, I went home and prayed never to put myself before doing what is right.

Presentation/Instruction: Life is full of choices. Use flip chart to record answers.
Question to class: What kinds of choices are we/you confronted with daily?
Guide answers: social, economic, academic. Bring the discussion into the spiritual realm.

Guided Practice: I Kings 18: 16-46. Elijah on Mount Carmel. Students will read the story out loud together with the teacher/or the teacher will read the story. Teacher will check for understanding by stopping every few verses to ask the class the following questions:

1. Who are the major players/characters?
2. Which characters have a choice to make?
3. What choices does s/he make?
4. What is the outcome of the choice?
5. Explain the relationship of the two/three major scenes with regard to making choices?
6. Upon what evidence do the characters base their choices?
7. Why don't the people say anything in response to Elijah (verse 21)?
8. What attitudes might account for their silence?
9. Are the people fickle following whomever performs the most magnificent miracle or are they sincere and eager to return to worshiping the true God?
10. Why do we make the choices we do?

Independent Practice: (Spiritual Application) Write 2-3 paragraphs on a spiritual choice that you have had to make. Describe the situation/choice/dilemma and the outcome of your choice. (Extend into a homework assignment if not completed during class time.)

Closure: Why was Ahab willing to risk a confrontation on Mount Carmel?

Appraisal: How many listened politely/quietly today? (Stickers for those students) Who participated willingly in the question/answer period? (Stickers)

Evaluation: Grade homework paragraph informally.