Year 9 Curriculum Information Booklet 2017-2018
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Religious and Humanist funerals<br />
Unit 3 – Issues of Good and Evil<br />
Students will study the following key areas<br />
with reference to Christianity. They will look<br />
act:<br />
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What makes an act ‘wrong’?<br />
Religious and ethical responses:<br />
relative and absolute morality,<br />
conscience, virtues, sin<br />
The causes of crime and the aims of<br />
punishment: justice, retribution,<br />
deterrence and reformation<br />
The treatment of criminals and the<br />
work of prison reformers and prison<br />
chaplains<br />
The Death Penalty<br />
Forgiveness<br />
Origin of evil and philosophical<br />
challenges<br />
Additional <strong>Information</strong><br />
Students will be expected to be aware of issues relating to ethics in the media and this will<br />
be brought out throughout the course. In this way students develop a greater<br />
understanding of the place of religion in the world today.<br />
Mrs R Lea – <strong>Curriculum</strong> Leader for Religious Education<br />
religion@stretfordgrammar.com