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We tried to do a bit of drama looking at the final night of Jesus’ life. The script is here: final night.

Next week we’ll look at some of the gory details of his death.

Here are some of the homework pictures of Jesus you guys did for me:

Bethanie says about her picture: “I chose to draw Jesus like this because even though he’s dying he is relaxed and happy because he knows he is dying for what he believes. In my opinion I think Jesus should be remembered like this because it’s what Christians believe.”

Today we looked at postcards of Jesus (you can find them all at the bottom of this post).

You each looked at 3 postcards and wrote about what you thought they were saying about Jesus. We discussed what you had found and then you started thinking about your own pictures of Jesus:

If you were going to draw a picture of Jesus, how would you do it?

What kind of person would you draw?

Would he be strong? Powerful? Wise? Kind? Angry? Happy? Tall? Female?

You made notes about what you thought, and wrote down some ideas about how your drawing would get these ideas across.

Your homework was to take these ideas home, draw the picture, and write a paragraph explaining what you’ve drawn.

This whole piece of work will be marked out of 12 (4 for effort, 4 for presentation, 4 for understanding). For each mark you get a raffle ticket which gives you an entry into a prize draw.

1st prize is 5 merits, 2nd prize is 3 merits, 3rd prize is 1 merit. The better your work, the more chance of winning a prize! Good luck!

Read this for tips on doing well:

• Level 4: Description. To get level 4 you need to describe what you are doing. What do you see? What does it look like?
• Level 5: Explanation. You need to think about why. Why do you say what you say? If the picture presents Jesus in a certain way explain why you think that is.
• Level 6: Analysis. The best way to do analysis is through “themes”. Good ones for this might be “death”, “emotion”, “colour”, “light”. Think about how these ideas might come through in your art and compare your art to the other pictures.

The pictures of Jesus are here: