The Complete Guide to Godly Play: Revised and Expanded: Volume 4 - Softcover

Berryman, Jerome W.; Minor, Cheryl V.; Beales, Rosemary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898690862 ISBN 13: 9780898690866

Verlag: Church Publishing, 2018

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The Godly Play® approach helps children explore their faith through story, to gain religious language, and to enhance their spiritual experience through wonder and play.

Based on Montessori principles and developed using a spiral curriculum, the Godly Play® method services children through early, middle, and late childhood and beyond. Revised and expanded, The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Volume 4, offers new concepts, new terminology, new illustrations, and a new structure that stem from more than 10 years of using Godly Play® with children across the world. Thirty to forty percent of the text is new or revised, including a new lesson, revised Introduction, and a full Appendix.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

The late Jerome W. Berryman was the founder of Godly Play and had years of experience working with children ages 2–18. Priest, writer, lecturer, and workshop leader, Berryman was, for years, Senior Fellow of the Center for the Theology of Childhood. He was the author of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, Teaching Godly Play, Children and the Theologians, The Spiritual Guidance of Children, and Stories of God at Home.
 

The Rev. Cheryl V. Minor, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for the Theology of Childhood, the research and development arm of the Godly Play Foundation. For over 20 years, she has served as Co-Rector at the All Saints' Episcopal Church in Belmont, Massachusetts, where she is privileged to practice Godly Play with children ages three to thirteen. She is the author of Godly Play in Middle and Late Childhood. 

Rosemary Beales has been sitting in circles with children for nearly 30 years, including 12 years as chaplain and religion teacher to 400 children at an Episcopal school in Alexandria, Virginia. She received her DMin from Virginia Theological Seminary and is a licensed Godly Play Trainer and an Episcopal priest, currently serving in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
 

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The Complete Guide to Godly Play Volume 4, Revised and Expanded

By Jerome W. Berryman, Steve Marchesi

Church Publishing Incorporated

Copyright © 2018 Jerome W. Berryman
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-0-89869-086-6

Contents

Introduction, 
Lesson 1 The Mystery of Easter, 
Lesson 2 The Faces of Easter I, 
Lesson 3 The Faces of Easter II, 
Lesson 4 The Faces of Easter III, 
Lesson 5 The Faces of Easter IV, 
Lesson 6 The Faces of Easter V, 
Lesson 7 The Faces of Easter VI, 
Lesson 8 The Faces of Easter VII, 
Lesson 9 The Crosses, 
Lesson 10 The Legend of the Easter Eggs, 
Lesson 11 Jesus and the Twelve, 
Lesson 12 The Good Shepherd and World Communion, 
Lesson 13 The Synagogue and the Upper Room, 
Lesson 14 The Circle of the Holy Eucharist, 
Lesson 15 Symbols of the Holy Eucharist, 
Lesson 16 The Mystery of Pentecost, 
Lesson 17 Saul Changes, 
Lesson 18 Paul's Travels and His Letters, 
Lesson 19 The Holy Trinity, 
Lesson 20 The Part That Hasn't Been Written Yet, 
Appendix A: The Foundational Literature for Godly Play, 
Appendix B: The Spiral Curriculum for Godly Play, 

CHAPTER 1

The Mystery of Easter

Lent, the Mystery of Easter, and the Easter Season

How to Use This Lesson

• Enrichment Presentation — This kind of lesson goes over the same material in a Core Lesson but from a different angle or in a more detailed way.

• Liturgical Action Lesson — Lessons about sacraments or traditions of the church, which primarily use ritual and symbol to make meaning.

• This Enrichment Lesson in Volume 4 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play adds to the Core Lesson for Lent called "The Faces of Easter." The cross in this lesson will remind the children of the cross that Jesus saw when he first looked up into the faces of Mary and Joseph, and of his journey to the cross — a journey we all take with him every year during the season of Lent.

• As the first lesson in Volume 4 of The Complete Guide to Godly Play, it is usually presented at the beginning of Lent.

• It is part of a comprehensive approach to Christian formation that consists of eight volumes. Together the lessons form a spiral curriculum that enables children to move into adolescence with an inner working knowledge of the classical Christian language system to sustain them all their lives.

The Material

• Location: Lent/Easter Shelf Unit

• Pieces: Reversible purple and white bag, six puzzle pieces that form a cross (purple on one side, white on the other), a wooden tray

• Underlay: Use a rug or plain felt underlay

Background

Lent is the season when we prepare for Easter. These six weeks are a solemn time, overflowing with meaning, when we view life from the perspective of our existential limits and the sacrifice of Christ. This lesson gives an introduction to the relationship of Lent to the Mystery of Easter as well as how Easter overflows into the season of Easter.

There are several possible uses for this lesson:

• Present it on the Sunday before Lent.

• Present it at a gathering of the congregation on Shrove Tuesday (the night before Lent begins). If you do this you might consider enlarging the material so it's easier to see in a large group setting.

• Present it as part of a liturgy designed for children on Ash Wednesday. This liturgy might include this presentation, a demonstration of how the ashes are made each year (by burning some of the previous year's palms from Palm Sunday), a song, a prayer, and then the imposition of ashes.

• Present it on the First Sunday of Lent, after focusing on the change of seasons.

– Use The Holy Family presentation (Volume 2, Lesson 3) to change the focal shelf color from green to purple.

– Then tell "The Mystery of Easter."

– The next week (the second Sunday in Lent) you can either present the first two of "The Faces of Easter" (Volume 4, Lessons 2 and 3), or begin the four-part series called "The Greatest Parable" (Volume 8, Lessons 1–4).

Notes on the Material

Find the materials for this presentation on the second shelf of the Lent/Easter Shelf Unit, directly under the lesson called "The Faces of Easter" (Volume 4, Lessons 2–8).

A bag, which is purple on the outside and white on the inside, holds six puzzle pieces, which, when assembled, make the shape of the cross. One side of the cross is purple; the other side of the cross is white. It is much more than a puzzle with pieces that fit together, as you will see at the end of The Mystery of Easter lesson.

Special Notes

Remember that this story is called "The Mystery of Easter," not "The Mystery of Lent." The fullest meaning of Lent is that it gives us time to prepare for the great Mystery of Easter, the principal feast of the Christian Church. Similarly, we recommend that you not call the material a "cross puzzle" but always refer to it as "the material for the Mystery of Easter."

At the end of this lesson the storyteller will put the pieces of the cross inside the bag, leaving it with the white on the outside. It will stay on the shelf like that through the end of that session. However, after the children leave the storyteller should turn the bag back to its purple side so that when the children return the next week they will find a purple bag.

Movements

Go to the basket of work rugs in the room and carry one to the circle. Model how to unroll the rug.

Go to the Lent/Easter Shelf Unit and bring the tray with the bag on it. Put the tray at your side and place the bag in the middle of the rug.

Pick up the bag and explore it from the outside.

Place the bag back on the rug and reach inside. Pull out the first piece with the purple side up, taking care not to reveal the white side.

Place it beside the bag. Turn it this way and that. Encourage the children's guesses, then reach inside the bag and take out a second piece.

Place the second piece on the rug, apart from the first piece. Turn the pieces, but do not fit them together.

Take out the third piece.

Put the third piece beside the other two, but do not fit the pieces together. Move the pieces around and try combinations that do not work.

Take out the fourth piece. Put the fourth piece beside the other three, but do not fit the pieces together. Take out the fifth piece.

Touch the almost empty bag and "find" yet another piece.

Take out the sixth piece.

Look in the bag. It is now empty.

Place the bag on the floor and sit back to wonder about it.

Touch one or more of the pieces as you talk about them.

Begin to move the pieces around, but do not yet fit them together. Experiment. Propose alternative constructions.

Play. Finally, assemble the cross.

Turn the pieces over to make a completely white cross.

Show the purple side of a few pieces.

Turn the pieces back to white again.

Reach inside the purple bag and take hold of the inside. Turn the bag inside out.

Count the white pieces.

Sit back and contemplate the Mystery of Easter for a few moments, and then begin the wondering questions.

When the wondering is finished, put the pieces of the cross inside the bag, leaving it with the white on the outside. Return the material to the shelf and help the...

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• Verlag: Church Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0898690862
• ISBN 13: 9780898690866
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
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