This week’s lesson revolved around world religions and it was the first week we reached into our bag of friends to help us out. Two of the club’s directors gave presentations – one on Judaism and one on Christianity – and we reached out to our friend Abidah Ali to speak to the middle schoolers about Islam.
The class was very attentive, though probably bored at times since we did a lot more talking and lost less interaction and introspection than last week. In any case, they were enthusiastic when we asked for questions and very interested in trying new things.
Our lesson focused on the three Abrahamic traditions because next time we will focus on eastern religions. We talked about the religions’ common heritage as well as their divisions. We walked carefully, of course, because we were teaching about religion in a public school classroom, and we didn’t want to put the students in an uncomfortable position (or hear about our lesson later from irate parents). We think we did well, in that respect, because we left the classroom without stirring up too much controversy and each student seemed either interested or bored, but not irked or uncomfortable.
