Junior Cert Religion - any film ideas???

RJuliet

I have recently been given a Junior Cert class for Religion and it is my first year teaching religion. They do not have to sit the Junior Cert exam and I am looking for any film ideas people might have that would be suitable for a JC class

I am doing some aspects of the course with them but was hoping to get a dvd to back topics up. I just want to stress that I will not just be showing them dvds for the year - it will only be as a resource...

Monsieur Folie

RJuliet wrote: »

I have recently been given a Junior Cert class for Religion and it is my first year teaching religion. They do not have to sit the Junior Cert exam and I am looking for any film ideas people might have that would be suitable for a JC class

I am doing some aspects of the course with them but was hoping to get a dvd to back topics up. I just want to stress that I will not just be showing them dvds for the year - it will only be as a resource...

I think this would probably get more of a response if it was in the Teaching section.

kevin12345

RJuliet wrote: »

I have recently been given a Junior Cert class for Religion and it is my first year teaching religion. They do not have to sit the Junior Cert exam and I am looking for any film ideas people might have that would be suitable for a JC class

I am doing some aspects of the course with them but was hoping to get a dvd to back topics up. I just want to stress that I will not just be showing them dvds for the year - it will only be as a resource...

We did a movie in 2nd year, I think it was called Changing Lanes? Fantastic movie! Brings up topics like decision making and how they affect our path in life, morality, greed and money and a few more. Great for a religion class, can lead to good discussions about decision making i.e what path would you take in "said" situation.

Chuchoter

Might be more interesting to throw a hot button issue up on the board and talk about it, you're not going to get much that will be 12s rated. We watched Chocolat, but its kind of crap. The JC religion course is painfully boring, don't do it unless you have to.

Tippgal93

we watched blood diamonds . . definetly provoked a thought and the whole class were drawn into it We had plenty of discussions afterwards on morality etc.. I would highly recommend it .........................
As part of my religion course for the jc the main bit i enjoyed was when the teacher put a topic on the board in like a spider diagram and we had a class dusscussion about it. Her only rule was that everyone had to respect everyone elses opinion . .topics included morality, bullying, abortion, racism, discrimination, 3rd world - how we should be helping.Because they were interesting topics and some debatable everyone got involved and participated

blondyjim

if you are learning about world religions like we did i would highly recommend the dvd about mahatma gandhi life it is truely brilliant at protraying many different topics from the junior cert course

2creator

If you are tteqching about the reformation, this documentary is perfect. I believe it is freely available in it's entirety on YouTube. "Martin Luther - Reluctant Revolutionary".

H1tmonlii

Coach Carter (Vocation)
Dead Man Walking (State Law vs Personal/Religious Morality)
Inside I'm Dancing (cant really remember, lol)