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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Bag or box containing participants' Big Questions notebooks (see Session 1, Alternate Activity 1, Notable Thoughts) Blank notebooks for new participants Pencils or pens Masking tape Preparation for Activity Retrieve participants' Big Questions...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page -
Activity time: 12 minutes Materials for Activity Leader Resource 3, Bad Things That Happen Newsprint, markers and tape Preparation for Activity Use Leader Resource 3 to prepare six newsprint sheets. On each sheet, write one of the bad events with plenty of room for youth to write around or under it.Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 20 minutes Materials for Activity Microphone(s), video camera(s) and tripod(s), real or simulated For studio set Backdrop made in Session 1 Painter's tape or masking tape Leader Resource 2, WCUU Script - A UU Panel A copy of Singing the Journey: A Supplement to Singing the Living...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Reconciling Faith and Evil Rabbi Harold Kushner's classic book When Bad Things Happen to Good People attempts to reconcile a belief in God with evidence of evil in the world, based on some of the author's own experiences. That's Good! That's Bad!...October 27, 2011 | For Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense. — Harold Kushner Big Question: Why do bad things happen? The flat statement that "stuff happens" seems to ask that we shrug, accept whatever fate befalls us and shuffle on, head down, through life....October 27, 2011 | For Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Paraphrased from the 1961 UUA General Resolution.All our laws must respect human life. Our laws and courts should help criminals, not hurt or kill them. Nobody can prove that capital punishment stops crime. If we make a mistake and put the wrong person to death, we cannot correct the mistake.Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Find this 1961 UUA General Resolution text online....Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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The WCUU script includes short speaking parts for four UUville Citizens. You will need to decide exactly what to say when the Roving Reporter interviews you. The paragraph about your role will help you get started....Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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To the Anchor: In today's WCUU broadcast, Roving Reporter wanders around UUville and asks citizens what they believe happens when we die. Your job is to follow the script, read your part and otherwise keep things going....Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Unitarian Universalism — We all can have different ideas about an afterlife, whether it exists, and what it might be like. We agree that after physical death, a person lives on through the people who have known them and the deeds they have done.(Our century-long Universalist heritage taught that...Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Unitarian Universalism — We agree that after physical death, a person lives on through the people who have known them and the deeds they have done. We may hold different ideas about the nature or existence of an afterlife. Roman Catholicism — We believe people are judged when they die, based on...Leader Resource | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Here are some ideas about death. Use check marks to show whether you agree or disagree. Remember—this is a private page. You can share it with others if you want, but you do not have to. Agree Disagree _____ _____ Thinking about God can help you explain life and death. _____ _____ Science is...Handout | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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To the Kid for the Day: You have two jobs. The first is getting your group excited about hearing today's Big Question. The second is announcing the question. 1. Say to the group, "Give me a drum roll!" Then wait for a minute while the drum roll builds....Handout | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Based on excerpts, adapted with permission, from Love and Death: My Journey through the Valley of the Shadow by Forrest Church (Beacon Press, 2008). Reverend Forrest Church is a minister of a very large Unitarian Universalist church in New York City. Rev. Church has cancer....Story | By Forrest Church | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Handout 2, What I Think Paper, envelopes that can be sealed and pens/pencils for all participants Preparation for Activity Copy Handout 2 for all participants. Description of Activity If you have time, use this activity at the end of this session.Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Orders of service for funerals or memorials recently held in your congregation Obituaries or newspaper articles about congregational members and friends who have recently died Unitarian Universalist books or pamphlets about death Congregational...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 5 minutes Preparation for Activity Prepare to tell youth about attempts scientists have made to find out what happens when we die. Find the experiments in the activity description, plus others, in...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Optional: Newsprint, markers and tape Preparation for Activity Optional: Write the challenge question on newsprint, and post. Optional: Browse the Internet and see what you find to share....Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 8 minutes Materials for Activity Copy(ies) of the Unitarian Universalist hymnbook Singing the Living Tradition Optional: A recording of the hymns and a music player Preparation for Activity Decide how best to present the songs "In Sweet Fields of Autumn," Hymn 52 in Singing the Liv...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page
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Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Bag or box containing participants' Big Questions notebooks (see Session 1, Alternate Activity 1, Notable Thoughts) Blank notebooks for new participants Pencils or pens Masking tape Preparation for Activity Retrieve participants' Big Questions...Activity | October 27, 2011 | For Children, Grade 6, Middle School | From Riddle and MysteryCurriculum page