Easter Sunday School – Reporting the Events

This Easter Sunday school lesson for 12-14 year olds works well.  Have your teenagers be the “reporters” to record what is happening at this time in the church’s history.

Bible Reading:

From Bible: Matthew 28:1-20  Have the students take this in turns to read.  Tell them that they will need to remember the events that happen as they are needed for the activity they will be doing later.

Discussion:  General discussion about the events from Good Friday to Easter Sunday – the crucifixion to resurrection.  Answer any questions that the students have about the Easter story.  Discuss forgiveness and ask for examples of things that they have done which they were sorry for or what others had done to them that they ought to forgive.

Activity: You have to Write it to Read it!

This activity requires the students to put some modern thinking into events that happened all those years ago.  Their activity is to create a newspaper front page as if they were a reporter at the time covering the story from the area beside the tomb.  What do they see?  What do they hear?

Provide each student with a sheet of paper, and a bible.  Some colored pencils, pens and rulers should also be supplied if possible.

Remember to remind them they are reporters at the time – they don’t know what happened next …..but like all reporters, what they don’t know, they should speculate on!

Discussion:  Have each student show their “front page”.  If there’s time, let the students each read their “scoop” report.  If there’s not, quickly go around the class and ask each student to read their opening sentence/paragraph.
 

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