DRAMA OF SCRIPTURE: Middle School Curriculum
Semester 1 - Creation / Covenant
Week 1 - Big Story of the OT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the OT Part 2
Week 3 - Creation (Gen 1-2)
Week 4 - Fall (Gen 3)
Week 5 - Gen 4 – Cain and Abel
Week 6 - Abraham (Gen 12;15)
Week 7 - Exodus
Week 8 - David and Goliath - 1 Sam Video
Week 9 - David and Bathsheba
Week 10 - Jeremiah
Week 11 - Jonah
Week 12 - Ruth
Semester 2 - Christ / Community
Week 1 - Big Story of the NT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the NT Part 2
Week 3 - John 1
Week 4 - Matthew 3 (Temptation / Fall)
Week 5 - Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-8)
Week 6 - Calming of the Storm (Mark 4:35-41)
Week 7 - Death and Resurrection (Luke 24)
Week 8 - Ascension and Sending (Acts 1)
Week 9 - Peter’s Sermon (Acts 10)
Week 10 - New Creation (Col 1)
Week 11 - James (sermon on the sermon on the mount)
Week 12 - (re)Creation (Rev 21-22)
Semester 3 - Creation / Covenant
Week 1 - Big Story of the OT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the OT Part 2
Week 3 - The Flood (Gen 5-8)
Week 4 - Tower of Babel (Gen 11)
Week 5 - Abraham and Isaac (Gen 22)
Week 6 - Tabernacle (Exodus 18-32)
Week 7 - Solomon and the Temple (2 Kings)
Week 8 - Solomon and Wisdom (2 Kings ?)
Week 9 - Isaiah (Isaiah 6)
Week 10 - Amos
Week 11 - Micah
Week 12 - Proverbs
Semester 4 - Christ / Community
Week 1 - Big Story of the NT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the NT Part 2
Week 3 - Luke 2
Week 4 - Luke Story
Week 5 - Zacchaeus Luke 19
Week 6 - Luke Miracles
Week 7 - Jesus’ Prayer (John 17)
Week 8 - Pentecost (Acts 2)
Week 9 - Paul in Athens (Acts 18)
Week 10 - Paul on Jesus (Phil 2)
Week 11 - Hebrews
Week 12 - Worship (Rev 6)
Semester 5 - Creation / Covenant
Week 1 - Big Story of the OT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the OT Part 2
Week 3 - The Flood (Gen 5-8)
Week 4 - Tower of Babel (Gen 11)
Week 5 - Joseph (Gen 45-50)
Week 6 - Leviticus ?
Week 7 - Numbers / Tabernacle (Numbers)
Week 8 - Josiah (2 Kings)
Week 9 - A second King
Week 10 - Daniel
Week 11 - Esther
Week 12 - Psalms
Semester 6 - Christ / Community
Week 1 - Big Story of the NT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the NT Part 2
Week 3 - Nicodemus/ Samaritan woman and Worship (John 3)
Week 4 - Light of the World (John 8)
Week 5 - Feeding of 5,000 (John)
Week 6 - Death and Resurrection (John’s Gospel)
Week 7 - Community in Acts (Acts 2/4)
Week 8 - Acts story #2
Week 9 - 1 Corinthians
Week 10 - Romans
Week 11 - 1 John
Week 12 - Dire Times (Rev 18)
Week 1 - Big Story of the OT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the OT Part 2
Week 3 - Creation (Gen 1-2)
Week 4 - Fall (Gen 3)
Week 5 - Gen 4 – Cain and Abel
Week 6 - Abraham (Gen 12;15)
Week 7 - Exodus
Week 8 - David and Goliath - 1 Sam Video
Week 9 - David and Bathsheba
Week 10 - Jeremiah
Week 11 - Jonah
Week 12 - Ruth
Semester 2 - Christ / Community
Week 1 - Big Story of the NT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the NT Part 2
Week 3 - John 1
Week 4 - Matthew 3 (Temptation / Fall)
Week 5 - Sermon on the Mount (Matt 5-8)
Week 6 - Calming of the Storm (Mark 4:35-41)
Week 7 - Death and Resurrection (Luke 24)
Week 8 - Ascension and Sending (Acts 1)
Week 9 - Peter’s Sermon (Acts 10)
Week 10 - New Creation (Col 1)
Week 11 - James (sermon on the sermon on the mount)
Week 12 - (re)Creation (Rev 21-22)
Semester 3 - Creation / Covenant
Week 1 - Big Story of the OT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the OT Part 2
Week 3 - The Flood (Gen 5-8)
Week 4 - Tower of Babel (Gen 11)
Week 5 - Abraham and Isaac (Gen 22)
Week 6 - Tabernacle (Exodus 18-32)
Week 7 - Solomon and the Temple (2 Kings)
Week 8 - Solomon and Wisdom (2 Kings ?)
Week 9 - Isaiah (Isaiah 6)
Week 10 - Amos
Week 11 - Micah
Week 12 - Proverbs
Semester 4 - Christ / Community
Week 1 - Big Story of the NT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the NT Part 2
Week 3 - Luke 2
Week 4 - Luke Story
Week 5 - Zacchaeus Luke 19
Week 6 - Luke Miracles
Week 7 - Jesus’ Prayer (John 17)
Week 8 - Pentecost (Acts 2)
Week 9 - Paul in Athens (Acts 18)
Week 10 - Paul on Jesus (Phil 2)
Week 11 - Hebrews
Week 12 - Worship (Rev 6)
Semester 5 - Creation / Covenant
Week 1 - Big Story of the OT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the OT Part 2
Week 3 - The Flood (Gen 5-8)
Week 4 - Tower of Babel (Gen 11)
Week 5 - Joseph (Gen 45-50)
Week 6 - Leviticus ?
Week 7 - Numbers / Tabernacle (Numbers)
Week 8 - Josiah (2 Kings)
Week 9 - A second King
Week 10 - Daniel
Week 11 - Esther
Week 12 - Psalms
Semester 6 - Christ / Community
Week 1 - Big Story of the NT Part 1
Week 2 - Big Story of the NT Part 2
Week 3 - Nicodemus/ Samaritan woman and Worship (John 3)
Week 4 - Light of the World (John 8)
Week 5 - Feeding of 5,000 (John)
Week 6 - Death and Resurrection (John’s Gospel)
Week 7 - Community in Acts (Acts 2/4)
Week 8 - Acts story #2
Week 9 - 1 Corinthians
Week 10 - Romans
Week 11 - 1 John
Week 12 - Dire Times (Rev 18)
AP THEOLOGY: High School Curriculum
Semester 1 - Trinitarian God, the Father
Week 1 - One God (Simplicity, Oneness)
Week 2 - Three Persons (Mystery, Incomprehensibility)
Week 3 - God, Love (Jealousy, Veracity)
Week 4 - God, end of Joy (Transcendence, Infinity)
Week 5 - God, ground of Being (Incorporeality, Omnipresent)
Week 6- God, source of Goodness (Goodness)
Week 7 - God, promise of Justice (Holiness, Aseity, Wrath)
Week 8 - God, hope of Salvation (Graciousness, Righteousness)
Week 9 - God, eternal (Constancy)
Week 10 - The Father Almighty (Sovereign, Omnipotent)
Week 11 - Maker of Heaven and Earth (Creative, Missional, Immanent)
Week 12 - All That is Seen and Unseen (Omniscient)
Semester 2 - God, the Son
Week 1 - “Only Son of God” (Beloved of the Father)
Week 2 - “Begotten of the Father” (Co-Eternal, Submitted and Authoritative)
Week 3 - “By whom all things were made” (Word of God, Clue to Creation)
Week 4 - “For us and for our salvation” (Bringer of Salvation, Priest)
Week 5 - “He came down from heaven” (Divine Condescension)
Week 6 - “And was made man” (Man/God; One Person, Two Natures)
Week 7 - “He was crucified under Pontius Pilate” (Man of Sorrows, Prophet)
Week 8 - “On the third day he rose again” (Image of the Resurrection; First Born of Creation)
Week 9 - “He Ascended into Heaven” (Christ the Glorified)
Week 10 - “And sits at the right hand of the Father” (The Session of Christ)
Week 11 - “He will come again in glory to judge the quick and the dead (Christ the Judge)
Week 12 -”And His kingdom will have no end” (Christ the King)
Semester 3 - God, the Holy Spirit
Week 1 - “The Lord, the Giver of Life” (Giver of Life)
Week 2 - “Who proceeds from the Father” (Breathed-out)
Week 3 - “Worshipped and Glorified” (Co-eternal, Submitted and Authoritative)
Week 4 - “He has spoken through the prophets” (Inspiration)
Week 5 - Spirit of Love
Week 6 - Indweller
Week 7 - Infiller
Week 8 - Producer of Fruit
Week 9 - Giver of Gifts
Week 10 - Giver of Freedom
Week 11 - Intercessor/Seal of Ownership
Week 12 - Deposit/Guarantee
Semester 4- Theology of Scripture
Week 1 - Word of God (Bibles, Texts, Originals)
Week 2 - Trustworthiness (What are trusting when we “believe the bible”?)
Week 3 - Signpost to Christ
Week 4 - Doctrine of Revelation (Divine Word)
Week 5 - Doctrine of Inspiration (Divine Author/Human Authors)
Week 6 - Canonization (The Church)
Week 7 - Inerrancy/Sufficient for Salvation
Week 8 - Hermeneutics I (Different Texts)
Week 9 - Hermeneutics II (Different Settings)
Week 10 - Hermeneutics III (Different Communities)
Week 11 - Test Case: Genesis 1 & 2, evolution vs. creationism
Week 12 - Other religious texts (Koran, Book of Mormon)
Semester 5- Church History
Week 1 - God of History/2nd Century Church Fathers
Week 2 - Council of Nicea (325)
Week 3 - Council of Chalcedon (451)
Week 4 - Monasticism and Benedict (530)
Week 5 - The Great Schism (1054)
Week 6 - Medieval Church
Week 7 - Reformation: Luther
Week 8 - Reformation: Calvin
Week 9 - Anglicanism
Week 10 - Wesleys and the Methodist Movement
Week 11 - Pentecostalism
Week 12 - The Church Today: Non Denom, Ancient-Future, The “nones”
Semester 6-Anthropology/Ethics Who we are as people and how it applies to theology
Week 1 - What is it to be Human? (Loving God and Enjoying Him Forever)
Week 2 - What is it to be Human? (love each other as yourself)
Week 3 - Love for Family
Week 4 - Love for Friends
Week 5 - Romantic Love
Week 6 - Agape Love
Week 7 - Habits of Love: Virtues (Cardinal)
Week 8 - Virtues (Theological)
Week 9 - Habits of Indifference: Vices I
Week 10 - Vices II
Week 11 - Providential Proximity
Week 12 - Taking up the Cross
Semester 7-Prayer, Liturgy, using the BCP, Sacraments Story of Worship, Being Church
Week 1 - Living in Patterns.
Week 2 - Calendar Year I (Advent through Easter)
Week 3 - Calendar Year II (Pentecost through Ordinary Time)
Week 4 - Church Liturgy I (The Service of the Word)
Week 5 - Church Liturgy II (Holy Communion)
Week 6 - Sacraments: Baptism and Communion
Week 7 - Book of Common Prayer I
Week 8 - Book of Common Prayer II
Week 9 - Communal Prayer
Week 10 - Prayer as Speaking
Week 11 - Prayer as Listening
Week 12 - Reading of the Word
Semester 8- Sharing the Gospel with others (missiology) What it means to be a missional church
Week 1 - Christianity: For the Life of the World
Week 2 - Knowing the Story; Living the Story
Week 3 - Hungry Hearts; Hungry Stomachs
Week 4 - Pentecost: The Movement of the Spirit
Week 5 - The Church, Body of Christ
Week 6 - Giftedness
Week 7 - To Whom Much is Given
Week 8 - The Announcement: Life Abundant
Week 9 - Christ to Your Family
Week 10 - Christ to Your Friends
Week 11 - Christ to Strangers
Week 12 - Christ to Your Enemies
Week 1 - One God (Simplicity, Oneness)
Week 2 - Three Persons (Mystery, Incomprehensibility)
Week 3 - God, Love (Jealousy, Veracity)
Week 4 - God, end of Joy (Transcendence, Infinity)
Week 5 - God, ground of Being (Incorporeality, Omnipresent)
Week 6- God, source of Goodness (Goodness)
Week 7 - God, promise of Justice (Holiness, Aseity, Wrath)
Week 8 - God, hope of Salvation (Graciousness, Righteousness)
Week 9 - God, eternal (Constancy)
Week 10 - The Father Almighty (Sovereign, Omnipotent)
Week 11 - Maker of Heaven and Earth (Creative, Missional, Immanent)
Week 12 - All That is Seen and Unseen (Omniscient)
Semester 2 - God, the Son
Week 1 - “Only Son of God” (Beloved of the Father)
Week 2 - “Begotten of the Father” (Co-Eternal, Submitted and Authoritative)
Week 3 - “By whom all things were made” (Word of God, Clue to Creation)
Week 4 - “For us and for our salvation” (Bringer of Salvation, Priest)
Week 5 - “He came down from heaven” (Divine Condescension)
Week 6 - “And was made man” (Man/God; One Person, Two Natures)
Week 7 - “He was crucified under Pontius Pilate” (Man of Sorrows, Prophet)
Week 8 - “On the third day he rose again” (Image of the Resurrection; First Born of Creation)
Week 9 - “He Ascended into Heaven” (Christ the Glorified)
Week 10 - “And sits at the right hand of the Father” (The Session of Christ)
Week 11 - “He will come again in glory to judge the quick and the dead (Christ the Judge)
Week 12 -”And His kingdom will have no end” (Christ the King)
Semester 3 - God, the Holy Spirit
Week 1 - “The Lord, the Giver of Life” (Giver of Life)
Week 2 - “Who proceeds from the Father” (Breathed-out)
Week 3 - “Worshipped and Glorified” (Co-eternal, Submitted and Authoritative)
Week 4 - “He has spoken through the prophets” (Inspiration)
Week 5 - Spirit of Love
Week 6 - Indweller
Week 7 - Infiller
Week 8 - Producer of Fruit
Week 9 - Giver of Gifts
Week 10 - Giver of Freedom
Week 11 - Intercessor/Seal of Ownership
Week 12 - Deposit/Guarantee
Semester 4- Theology of Scripture
Week 1 - Word of God (Bibles, Texts, Originals)
Week 2 - Trustworthiness (What are trusting when we “believe the bible”?)
Week 3 - Signpost to Christ
Week 4 - Doctrine of Revelation (Divine Word)
Week 5 - Doctrine of Inspiration (Divine Author/Human Authors)
Week 6 - Canonization (The Church)
Week 7 - Inerrancy/Sufficient for Salvation
Week 8 - Hermeneutics I (Different Texts)
Week 9 - Hermeneutics II (Different Settings)
Week 10 - Hermeneutics III (Different Communities)
Week 11 - Test Case: Genesis 1 & 2, evolution vs. creationism
Week 12 - Other religious texts (Koran, Book of Mormon)
Semester 5- Church History
Week 1 - God of History/2nd Century Church Fathers
Week 2 - Council of Nicea (325)
Week 3 - Council of Chalcedon (451)
Week 4 - Monasticism and Benedict (530)
Week 5 - The Great Schism (1054)
Week 6 - Medieval Church
Week 7 - Reformation: Luther
Week 8 - Reformation: Calvin
Week 9 - Anglicanism
Week 10 - Wesleys and the Methodist Movement
Week 11 - Pentecostalism
Week 12 - The Church Today: Non Denom, Ancient-Future, The “nones”
Semester 6-Anthropology/Ethics Who we are as people and how it applies to theology
Week 1 - What is it to be Human? (Loving God and Enjoying Him Forever)
Week 2 - What is it to be Human? (love each other as yourself)
Week 3 - Love for Family
Week 4 - Love for Friends
Week 5 - Romantic Love
Week 6 - Agape Love
Week 7 - Habits of Love: Virtues (Cardinal)
Week 8 - Virtues (Theological)
Week 9 - Habits of Indifference: Vices I
Week 10 - Vices II
Week 11 - Providential Proximity
Week 12 - Taking up the Cross
Semester 7-Prayer, Liturgy, using the BCP, Sacraments Story of Worship, Being Church
Week 1 - Living in Patterns.
Week 2 - Calendar Year I (Advent through Easter)
Week 3 - Calendar Year II (Pentecost through Ordinary Time)
Week 4 - Church Liturgy I (The Service of the Word)
Week 5 - Church Liturgy II (Holy Communion)
Week 6 - Sacraments: Baptism and Communion
Week 7 - Book of Common Prayer I
Week 8 - Book of Common Prayer II
Week 9 - Communal Prayer
Week 10 - Prayer as Speaking
Week 11 - Prayer as Listening
Week 12 - Reading of the Word
Semester 8- Sharing the Gospel with others (missiology) What it means to be a missional church
Week 1 - Christianity: For the Life of the World
Week 2 - Knowing the Story; Living the Story
Week 3 - Hungry Hearts; Hungry Stomachs
Week 4 - Pentecost: The Movement of the Spirit
Week 5 - The Church, Body of Christ
Week 6 - Giftedness
Week 7 - To Whom Much is Given
Week 8 - The Announcement: Life Abundant
Week 9 - Christ to Your Family
Week 10 - Christ to Your Friends
Week 11 - Christ to Strangers
Week 12 - Christ to Your Enemies