Scripture and the Big Story: Catch-up or Calendar Flex

Teens (ages 13-17) · Editor-selected approved T1 passage · Standard ·35 minutes

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Objective: Analyse the relevant text and explain the case that the operating calendar may use this slot for catch-up, holidays, or a congregation-specific teaching need.

Read: To be selected by curriculum editor

Opening: Ask: What evidence governs this lesson, and what must the editor or student not pretend the evidence says?

Say:

This optional slot may be used for catch-up, holidays, or a congregation-specific teaching need.
A Teen flex should preserve the normal interpretive discipline of observation, context, genre, synthesis, inference, and application.
Revisiting a difficult prior lesson may be more educationally valuable than introducing a new topic merely to fill a calendar slot.

Ask:

What can you point to directly in the passage or curriculum record?
How does the big idea arise from the evidence?
What would be an overstatement?
What response fits the evidence?

Do: Complete the Catch-up Claim Audit activity.

Close: Pray using one truth from the selected passage and one faithful response.

Materials: Bible; Catch-up Claim Audit

Standard outline · 35 minutes

4 minConnect. Locate the lesson within Cycle 1 and activate prior knowledge.
4 minContext. Identify genre, audience, setting, and immediate context before making claims.
9 minRead and observe. Read the principal passage and distinguish observation from explanation. Ask: What does the passage or curriculum record directly say?
7 minDiscuss. Test the big idea against the evidence and identify interpretive limits. Ask: How does the big idea arise from the evidence? What should we avoid claiming?
7 minActivity. Complete the primary evidence-based activity. Activity: Catch-up Claim Audit. Printable: T1-L28-P01-catch-up-claim-audit.
4 minRespond. Name one faithful response and pray. Ask: What is one faithful response to this lesson?

Activity details

Catch-up Claim Audit · 10 min

Materials: Catch-up Claim Audit; Bible; Pens or pencils

Read the selected evidence and record direct observations.
Place observations, interpretations, framework choices, or prudential applications into the resource categories.
Discuss which conclusions require more than direct textual wording.
Write one careful response that follows from the evidence.

Low-resource option: Draw the categories on blank paper or complete the exercise verbally.

Closing

Memory verse: Editor-selected approved T1 passage

Prayer: Thank God for what the selected passage reveals and ask for wisdom to respond faithfully.

Take-home line: The operating calendar may use this slot for catch-up, holidays, or a congregation-specific teaching need.