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For the teacherWhat you will find in each lesson 4Music and drama CD and CD-ROM 6Curriculum stance 7Training and support 7Five circles of learning 8Connect icons 9

Introduction—God's great kingdom plan 10Lesson 1 Position vacant—Leader Judges 12Lesson 2 Samuel 1 Samuel 1–7 18Lesson 3 We want a king! 1 Samuel 8 28Lesson 4 Saul, the people’s king 1 Samuel 9–15 34Lesson 5 David chosen as king 1 Samuel 16:1–13 42Lesson 6 David and Goliath 1 Samuel 17 54Lesson 7 The House of God and the House of David 2 Samuel 7:1–29 62Lesson 8 God’s King in action 2 Samuel 8–24; Psalm 23 70Lesson 9 David makes Solomon king 1 Kings 1–2 78Lesson 10 King of all kings and all people Matthew 27:11, 29, 37; Hebrews 1:8 84

Introduction—Remember God is King 96Lesson 11 Solomon asks for wisdom 1 Kings 3:1–15; 4:29–34 98Lesson 12 Solomon’s temple 1 Kings 4–9 110Lesson 13 Forgetting the true King 1 Kings 11–14 120Lesson 14 The downfall of the kingdom 1 Kings 15—2 Kings 24 128Lesson 15 The people won’t listen 1 Kings 17–18; Jeremiah 136Lesson 16 Away from God’s land 2 Kings 25; Jeremiah 52 146Lesson 17 Daniel stays faithful to God Daniel 1–2, 6 158Lesson 18 Hope for the kingdom Ezekiel 34 168Lesson 19 God brings his people home Nehemiah 178Lesson 20 Pete Tong Ephesians 2:4–5 188

Easter assembly The King has come and will come again Luke 1:32–33 194

Special lesson Forgiveness Matthew 18:21–35 200

Teaching ideas Help with classroom management 207Helpful teaching techniques 209Teaching Memory verses 212Is your class different? 215The special needs of indigenous students 217Understanding the student: the learning theory undergirding Connect 218Using appropriate language in the (S)RE class 220When a student wants to make a response 221Christian Education outcomes 222

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For information about what is included on your Music and drama CD and CD-ROM, refer to page 6.

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2the account of a barren woman should draw our attention. So far we have read of Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, all born to (previously) barren women, as was Samson (Judges 13). All of these men were key figures in God’s plan to make for himself his own people, a holy nation. Therefore as we are introduced to Hannah our attention shifts to the child she is to bear.

We are also given insight into Israel’s current leadership—the priest Eli and his two sons, Hophni and Phinehas (1:3). We are told that Eli was old and his sons were corrupt (2:12–25). To complicate things further, the looming threat of the Philistines is made clear (4:2–11), a threat that would continue to bear down on Israel for the rest of 1 Samuel.

Yet, out of this bleakness, God gave hope—Samuel, the answer to the heartbreaking prayer of a barren woman. Hannah responded to God’s generosity by dedicating Samuel to the Lord. Once he was weaned he went to live with Eli at Shiloh. Samuel grew in favour with the Lord and the people (2:26) and was set to become a great leader of Israel. God once again acted on behalf of his people and raised up Samuel as Israel’s leader. Samuel led the people back to God (7:3–6), and God protected them from the Philistines (7:7–14). Could Israel’s leadership crisis finally be over?

LESSON AIM ■ To help students to understand that Samuel

was instrumental in God’s kingdom plan of salvation for his people.

LESSON OUTCOMESStudents will learn about:

■ Hannah, who trusted in God ■ Samuel, who had a special purpose

in God’s kingdom plan.

Students will learn to: ■ identify ways in which God speaks to

us today.

MEMORY VERSE You will judge the whole earth and give power and strength to your chosen king. 1 Samuel 2:10b (CEV)

» Bible backgroundBy the end of the book of Judges, everyone was doing what they thought was right in their own eyes, with little regard for Israel’s true leader and king, the Lord God. As a result, both the political and religious future of this nation was under threat. What was to become of Israel? Would God keep his promises to them?

This is the stage onto which a reasonably insignificant man from a reasonably insignificant part of Israel enters—Elkanah of Ramah, along with his barren wife, Hannah (1 Samuel 1:1–2). By this stage in the narrative of biblical history,

Samuel1 Samuel 1–7

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» You will need ✔ A CEV Bible marked at 1 Samuel 1:17; 3:20 ✔ Blu-Tack ✔ Visual aids on pages 25–27 of Bible

timeline #3, Samuel growing up and Samuel’s coats (see Before you start)

✔ God speaks to Samuel (track 10) and Lesson 2 end play (track 12) on CEP’s Infants CD

✔ CD player or MP3 player and portable speakers

✔ Activity books ✔ Hannah, Eli and Hannah with Samuel

from the Coloured Visual aid pack ✔ Materials for Taking it further (optional) ✔ Old and New Testament Bible timeline

posters from Connect A1 and A2 Coloured Visual aid packs (optional)

✔ The CD-ROM from this manual if you intend to use an interactive whiteboard to display the PowerPoints of either the lessons, song words or prayers.

OTHER RESOURCESIf your lessons are longer than the standard, you may find the following resources useful.

■ God loves his people (track 10) on CEP’s Promises, promises CD.

■ God is everywhere (track 7) of Colin Buchanan’s Colin’s favourites CD.

■ God is a holy God (track 10) of The King, the snake and the promise CD.

BEFORE YOU START ■ If you intend to use an interactive whiteboard,

review the PowerPoint slide(s) for this lesson on the CD-ROM that comes with this manual.

■ You can use the Visual aid on page 25 of Bible timeline #3 if you do not have the Bible timeline posters from the Connect A1 and A2 Coloured Visual aid pack.

■ Enlarge, photocopy and cut out the Visual aids on pages 26–27 of Samuel growing up and Samuel’s coats. Put Blu-Tack on the back of the coats, ready for students to attach to the appropriate pictures of Samuel during the lesson. You may like to colour the coats.

■ There are various actions during the telling of the story. Encourage the students to join in with these, as they will be doing them again at the conclusion of the lesson as you say a simple rhyme for revision.

■ The judgement on Eli’s sons is not covered in this lesson because of the students’ age.

» Teacher’s prayerThank God for each student in the class and for the opportunity to present his word to the students.

Praise God that he answers prayer. Pray that the students will experience this in their lives.

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Hannah went to God’s temple. Eli, the priest, worked there. Hannah didn’t see him sitting near the door and she started to pray quietly.

Join hands in prayer, with eyes closed.

‘Lord, I feel so sad because I have no children,’ whispered Hannah.

Hold arms in cradle formation, rock side to side.

‘Please let me have a baby. If you give me a son I promise I will give him back to you! I will bring him here to work with your servant Eli in your temple.’

■ What promise did Hannah make to God? (Accept responses. If God gave her a son, she would give him back to God, and he would work in the temple with Eli.)

Eli, the priest, saw Hannah and spoke to her. She explained to him that she was upset. This is what Eli said to Hannah.

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Read 1 Samuel 1:17 from a CEV Bible.

Hannah must have found this hard to believe, but went back home with her husband and waited for God’s answer.

Put up your hand if you think that God will answer Hannah’s prayer by giving her a baby.

Acknowledge hands.

Soon Hannah did have a baby.

Hold arms in cradle formation, rock side to side.

It was a boy and she named him Samuel.

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Display the Visual aid on page 26 of baby Samuel from Samuel growing up.

Hannah made a coat and dressed baby Samuel in it.

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Select a student to choose which coat to use to dress baby Samuel from the Visual aid on page 27.

Hannah loved Samuel. She looked after him and he grew bigger and bigger and bigger. But Hannah had not forgotten her promise to God.

■ What promise did Hannah make to God? (If you give me a son, I will give him back to you, and he will work in the temple with Eli.)

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Display the Visual aid on page 26 of Samuel as a little boy.

Samuel was growing bigger (stand up slowly from crouching position) so Hannah made him a new, bigger coat.

» Way inIn our last lesson, we learned that the Israelite people didn’t want to listen to God.

We’re going to practise being good listeners. You might like to close your eyes, but you don’t have to. We’re going to turn our listening ears on.

You could pretend to turn on your hearing by ‘turning the dials on our ears’.

We’re going to sit silently for a short while and just listen to the sounds around us. At the end of the time, we’ll find out what we all heard.

Allow a short time of listening, then ask the students to name a sound they heard.

Sometimes we forget to listen. Today’s lesson is about someone who heard something very unusual, and listened very carefully!

We’re reading from the Old Testament section of the Bible about a boy named Samuel. Samuel was born about 1000 years before Jesus lived on earth.

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Display all the Bible timeline posters from the Connect A1 and A2 Coloured Visual aid packs if you have them and indicate

Samuel and Jesus. Alternatively, display the Visual aid on page 25 of the Bible timeline #3 and indicate Samuel.

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Display the Coloured Visual aid of Hannah if you have it.

Today’s lesson is about a woman named Hannah who was very sad because she had no baby. Make a ball with your fists and 'wipe the tears away', encouraging students to do the same.

One day her husband found her crying. ‘Why are you crying, Hannah? Why are you sad? Don’t you know I love you?’ asked her husband.

But Hannah only became sadder and sadder and sadder. She decided to ask God for help.

■ How could Hannah ask God to help her? (Accept responses. By talking to God in prayer.)

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Display the Coloured Visual aid of Eli if you have it.


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God had chosen Samuel to be one of his messengers. As Samuel grew up, God kept speaking to him.

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Display the Visual aid on page 26 of Samuel as an adult from Samuel growing up. Select a student to dress him in the

remaining coat (from the Visual aid on page 27).

God had chosen Samuel for a very important job. When God had a message for his people, he told Samuel and then Samuel told the people.

God chose different messengers over many years to speak to the people. They were to let the people know how to live God’s way and to get them ready for the time when Jesus would come to rescue them.

These messengers who were chosen by God were known as prophets.

Samuel was one of these prophets. Listen to what the Bible says about him.

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Read 1 Samuel 3:20 from a CEV Bible.

The people of Israel, God’s people, knew that Samuel had been chosen to tell them God’s news.

He would tell the people how to live God’s way.

» ConnectionsThink back to our last lesson.

■ How do you think God might use Samuel to help the Israelites? (Accept responses.)

■ How do you think the people would feel when they heard God’s messages? (Accept responses, but do not correct. Encourage students to form ideas about this and engage with the Bible material personally.)

Just as God spoke to his people long ago, he still speaks to us, his people, today.

Turn to the person sitting next to you, and together, think of ways that God might give us messages today.

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Select a student to choose which coat to use to dress Samuel (from the Visual aid on page 27).

She brought Samuel to God’s temple where Eli lived.

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Display the Coloured Visual aid of Hannah with Samuel if you have it.

‘Here is the child I prayed for,’ said Hannah. ‘I promised to give him back to God. He will be the Lord’s servant as long as he lives.’

So Samuel stayed with Eli.

But Hannah didn’t forget Samuel. Every year, she and Samuel’s father went to the temple to worship the Lord. They also visited Samuel. He was growing taller and taller.

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Display the Visual aid on page 26 of Samuel as an older boy from Samuel growing up.

So every year Hannah took Samuel a new coat.

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Select a student to choose which coat to use to dress Samuel (from the Visual aid on page 27).

God was kind to Hannah and gave her more children, but she never forgot about Samuel.

Samuel helped Eli in God’s temple. Eli told Samuel wonderful things about God and Samuel listened carefully and tried to obey God.

But Eli was getting older and was almost blind. Sometimes he would call Samuel to help him.

One night Samuel was asleep in bed. Then he heard someone call his name.

Put hands beside mouth and call ‘Samuel!’

Listen to what happened next.

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Play God speaks to Samuel (track 10) on CEP’s Infants CD.

■ Who was speaking to Samuel? (Accept responses. God.)

Put up your hand if I say a word that describes how Samuel might have felt when God spoke to him:

• happy• frightened• amazed• worried• interested.

(Acknowledge hands.)

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I’m listening, Lord (track 1) on CEP’s Infants CD.

Supplementary songs are also included in Other resources at the start of the lesson.

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Photocopy the Visual aids on pages 26–27 of Samuel as an adult from Samuel growing up and the matching coat from Samuel’s coats onto A4 sheets. Invite the students to decorate the coat using some stickers or fabric scraps.

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LISTENING ACTIVITY

Use this activity to discuss Samuel listening to God. Collect a variety of objects that make noises, such as tongs (clap them together), sandpaper (rub two pieces together), a biro that clicks, cellophane that crackles, a set of keys that jingle, and rice in a shaker. Demonstrate each noise, then choose students to identify the object by listening only to its sound. Students may turn their backs or be blindfolded.

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LISTENING GAME

Ask for a volunteer to sit on a chair at the front of the room, facing away from the rest of the students. Ask your volunteer to close his or her eyes.

Point to another student, who says, ‘Do you know who I am?’ The student on the chair must try to guess who is speaking. If the student guesses correctly on the first attempt, he or she can have another turn. If the student does not guess correctly, ask for another volunteer to come and sit on the chair.

Invite several students to share their suggestions. Be sure to emphasise that God speaks to us through the Bible and we can hear and read his words at church, from our parents, in songs and in (S)RE lessons.

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Display the Coloured Visual aid of Hannah with Samuel if you have it.

Teach the students the following action story:

Hannah was sad Ball fists, wipe tears away.

A baby would make her glad Hold arms in cradle formation, rock side to side.

She asked God in prayer Hold hands in prayer, eyes closed.

And God answered. Hold arms in cradle formation, rock side to side .

Samuel grew tall Stand up slowly from crouching position.

And one day heard God call Put hands beside mouth and call ’Samuel!’

God still speaks today Nod head.

And loves to hear us pray Hold hands in prayer, eyes closed.

We can hear God’s words Cup hand to ear.

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Distribute the Activity books and direct the students to Lesson 2.

Play the Lesson 2 end play (track 12) on CEP’s Infants CD. In this play, Joshua and Naomi review some of the events of the lesson. They remind the students that we can discover God’s message today by reading the Bible.

» Concluding prayerThank you, God, for choosing Samuel to be a messenger to tell people how you want them to live. Help us to listen to the message about Jesus in the Bible and to live as your friends forever. Amen.



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» Teacher reflections ■ What part of the lesson were the students

most interested in?

■ Did any student show particular interest in Hannah’s prayer? How can you encourage them to pray?

» For next lesson ■ You will need to prepare some Visual aids.

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A MESSAGE FROM GOD

Ask the students to imagine they are Samuel. Invite them to describe what it was like to be given a message by God. Make a list of words that could describe the experience.

Point out that the Bible is God’s word to us today. Ask the students how they feel knowing that when they read the Bible it is God speaking to them.

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Ask the students to show facial expressions for each of the following events:

■ Hannah was upset because she didn’t have any children.

■ God answered Hannah’s prayer and she had a baby boy.

■ Samuel heard God speak to him.

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