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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

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