Day 2: Cultural Implications
1. Reconvene with your group from yesterday. You will have new jobs to facilitate group discussion.
2. Individually, watch the Old Testament creation myth on The Big Myth.
3. Engage in a group discussion. Your teacher will let you know how much time to spend on each question:
5. Go deeper with your stories. Fill out the Day 2 chart together. Hopefully, you are getting a feel for what the cultures carrying our stories were like.
6. Find pictures of art from the cultures you are exploring. Post them neatly in your Google Doc.
2. Individually, watch the Old Testament creation myth on The Big Myth.
3. Engage in a group discussion. Your teacher will let you know how much time to spend on each question:
- When do the humans enter the scene in the Biblical account?
- Do you think God knew Adam and Eve would eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
- How does this story influence how we see ourselves in our culture? Are we arrogant because God put us in charge? Do we still feel the shame experienced in the Garden of Eden?
- From where does this story originate? Why is it so dominant in the United States?
- What stories originated in the United States? Should we pay more attention to those since they developed in our landscape?
- Why is it important to understand other worldviews?
5. Go deeper with your stories. Fill out the Day 2 chart together. Hopefully, you are getting a feel for what the cultures carrying our stories were like.
6. Find pictures of art from the cultures you are exploring. Post them neatly in your Google Doc.