Meaning of Suffering

Learning Objectives:
1. How can a person's suffering be offered for the sake of another?
2. Reflect on a time when challenges and suffering have led to personal growth
3. Revisit the claim that a loving God wouldn't allow the innocent to suffer

Resources Include: 
- Fully editable PowerPoint Lesson
- Offer It Up - A visual image for pupils to annotate to further understand the concept of offering up suffering.
- Silent Sentences - Pupils work in groups to silently rearrange a set of sentences to make a grammatically correct paragraph about the meaning of suffering.
- Debate Ideas - An information sheet guiding pupils through the statement ‘a good and loving good would never allow the innocent to suffer’. Differentiation included.

Religious Education Directory Links:
U8.4.4 - Describe how the Church responds to the mystery of suffering and death with reference to the belief that when united with Jesus, a person’s suffering can be offered for the sake of others (see Colossians 1:24, CCC 1521).
D8.4.2 - Consider the claim that a good and loving God would never allow the innocent to suffer. Present arguments for and against the claim, including a Catholic response, weighing the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments.

Scheme of Work: Year 8 Desert to Garden - Lesson 5 _______________________________________________________________________________

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