Table of Contents
WEEK 16 — Foundations of Knowledge and Religion
Class 1: What is Religious Knowledge?
- Introduce key concepts and vocabulary
- Explore knowledge, belief, and faith through prompt and engaging YouTube links
Class 2: Scope of Religious Knowledge
- The role and function of religious knowledge.
- Include reading and comparative chart activity with cross-AOK analysis.
Class 3: Diversity of Religious Perspectives
- A session exploring ritual and religious experience across traditions through engaging audio-visual media.
- Use visual starter, analysis task, and panel activity to explore interpretive limits.
WEEK 17 — Tools of Faith, Reason & Language
Class 4: The Tools of Religious Knowledge
- A session on analogy, metaphor, and ritual as knowledge tools.
- Explore metaphors through decoding task
- Discussions on rationality of religious knowledge.
Class 5: Language, Translation & Testimony
- A session exploring how language shapes access to sacred knowledge.
- Include case study, quote reflection, and discussion on testimony and authority.
Class 6: Faith and Reason — A Paradox?
- Addressing the relationship between faith and reason.
- Include clip analysis, interactive visual analysis, and personal belief journal reflection.
WEEK 18 — Ethics, Claims & Contested Truths in Religion
Class 7: Ethics and Responsibility in Religious Knowledge
- How ethical responsibility connects to religious knowledge claims.
- Use carousel case studies, TED Talks, and discussion guided by contemporary examples and prompt questions.
Class 8: Religious Narratives and Object Analysis
- A session applying the knowledge framework to sacred objects.
- Students analyze symbols or texts through scope, perspective, methods, and ethics.
Class 9: TOK Exhibition Practice – Faith in the Real World
- A session for exhibition-style synthesis using religious objects.
Use group tasks - IA-style prompts
- gallery walk
- reflective journal to conclude the unit.
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