Lesson Plan-Session Five
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This lesson plan discusses the failure of King Hezekiah's reforms in Israel and examines reasons why reforms may not be successful, including the loss of a shared narrative, being too narrow, proud, self-confident, spoiled, caught up in luxury and games, and going past the point of no return due to hardened hearts or being too far gone in corruption. It asks students to consider examples of advanced social decline and concludes by charging students for the next session.
Lesson Plan-Session Five
- 1. Lesson Plan - Session Five I. I’ll tell the class about a king - Hezekiah - who rose up and did many good things. Ultimately, his effort was a failure. I’ll ask the group to think of reasons why these reforms may not have ultimately been successful. II. After we read A., we’ll examine this question: isn’t the loss of a positive and virtuous “shared narrative” a major contributor to social decline? If so, how and why? III. After looking at C, D, H, and K, we’ll ask whether being too narrow, too proud, too self-confident, and too spoiled can weaken a people and a society. How? IV. Do we get a sense from G that being too caught up in games, luxury, and intoxicants (whatever they may be) can contribute to decline? How does that happen? V. In I, we get the idea that repentance could turn the table in favor of a people that had strayed. Could that be so? What would it have to involve to be successful? VI. Or in certain cases can it simply get to a point where it’s too late to be changed, either because it’s not in the people’s “DNA” to change (see L) or too much bad “has clogged up the bottle” (see O)?
- 2. VII. Speaking of it becoming perhaps too late to change, we see a very ugly image in M. It’s obviously a sign of advanced disease. Have we ever seen this sort of condition in literature or history. Let’s discuss examples. VII. We see in N a composite of lessons we’ve studied abundantly. What’s the main takeaway? Conclusion - the charge for the sixth session!