When you think of Christmas, what comes to your mind? Write all of your ideas on the board and then click on the show suggestions button to scroll through the images. Do these match your idea of Christmas?
When you think of Christmas, what comes to your mind? Write all of your ideas on the board and then click on the show suggestions button to scroll through the images. Do these match your idea of Christmas?
Look at each of the images again. Which do you think represent the Christmas story and which are cultural representations of Christmas? Explain your choices to the class.
How much do we really know about the nativity story?
Christmas has become 'soft and fluffy,' romantic and sentimental but this probably wasn’t the intention of the 'authors.'
In reality, the Christmas stories contain themes that are somewhat ‘darker’ and much more ‘edgy.’
How many of these themes can you identify?