254 Early World Civilizations: Supplemental Guide 15A| Christianity
Introducing the Read-Aloud 10 minutes
What Have We Already Learned?
You may wish to start out with a review of the previous lesson and
what you have fi lled in thus far on the chart about the three major
religions during the extensions of earlier lessons.
Remind students that Judaism is a religion that practices the
belief in one God. Ask if they recall a word used to describe belief
in one God. (monotheistic; monotheism) Ask, “What is the word
we learned to describe the belief in many gods?” (polytheistic;
polytheism) Then ask students to name the prophet that led
the Jewish people out of Egypt to “the promised land.” (Moses)
Remind them that a prophet is a leader in a religion who teaches
other people.
Tell them that they are going to learn about another monotheistic
religion today—a religion that also has a holy fi gure. Ask them if
anyone knows the name of the key Christian holy fi gure or leader.
(Jesus)Vocabulary Preview
Christianity/Christian
Show image 15A-5: Church- In today’s read-aloud, you will learn about a religion called
Christianity and about some holidays that Christian people
celebrate. - Say the word Christianity with me three times.
Say the word Christian with me three times. - Christianity is one of the three world religions we will learn
about. Christianity grew out of Judaism. The people who
practice Christianity are called Christians.
Christianity
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