Lesson Plan on Fall of Israel (B5-L3)

Objective

  1. Students can summarize destruction of Judah and Israel
  2. Students can describe the destruction of temple of God at Jerusalem

Warm-up

Picture of Babylon attacking Jerusalem and taking Israelites as slaves

Lesson – Guided practice

Students split as 4 groups, each reading separate parts and then teach rest of class.

  1. Destruction of the kingdom of Israel/Samaria
  2. Destruction of the kingdom of Judah
  3. Destruction of the temple at Jerusalem
  4. Zedekiah – what did he do and what happened

Wrap-up

  1. Students write in journal about destruction of kingdoms of Judah and Israel
    1. What happened
    2. Why it happened
    3. How it happened
    4. When it happened (e.g. when X was the king)
  2. Students write in journal about the destruction of temple of God
  3. Students write 1 instance from their life where they stood up (or should have stood up) against something wrong that happened around them.

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