Examples of Christian pilgrimage
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Overview
Take a comprehensive look at the major Christian pilgrimage sites around the world in this lesson, designed to last for one hour. Within this KS4 lesson, students are encouraged to research two pilgrimage sites in depth before using persuasive language and Biblical support to justify their selection in a creative writing task. Aligned to the GCSE specifications, the lesson culminates with a series of knowledge-testing questions and practice GCSE evaluation question.
Curriculum links
Themes covered in this lesson are aligned to:
OCR
- The purpose of pilgrimage to Lourdes, Jerusalem, Walsingham and Rome
AQA
- Two contrasting examples of Christian pilgrimage: Lourdes and Iona
Edexcel
- The activities associated with, and significance of, Jerusalem, Iona, Taize and Walsingham
