Grade 3 Scripture Study Chapter 4: Separate Teacher Guide and Answers
Parent reference. Chapter 4 addresses Scripture covenant-context sequence; not an Alabama academic standard. Answers to open tasks are indicative; evaluate evidence and reasoning rather than requiring identical wording.
Day 1 Answer Key: Deuteronomy 9:1–6
- 1. Moses
- 2. Israel
- 3. Entering the land
- 4. Their own righteousness as reason
- 5. Covenant oath to fathers and judgment on nations
- 6. Accurate contextual paraphrase
- 7. Not because of their righteousness
- 8. Audience and covenant setting shape meaning
- 9. Text-grounded summary
- 10. Verifiable wording in passage
- 11. Application distinct
- 12. Both caution against self-exaltation
Check for genuine independent understanding. For open tasks, require appropriate evidence. Reteach with an unfamiliar example and assess again.
Day 2 Answer Key: Deuteronomy 9:7–21
- 1. Golden calf
- 2. Stone tablets
- 3. Idolatrous image and disobedience
- 4. Moses broke them
- 5. Aaron is described as involved; read context
- 6. Intercession, destruction and warning
- 7. Calls Israel to remember disobedience
- 8. Refer to passage
- 9. Narrated actions versus moral instruction
- 10. Correct chronological summary
- 11. Any unsupported detail labeled
- 12. Verse-based comparison
Check for genuine independent understanding. For open tasks, require appropriate evidence. Reteach with an unfamiliar example and assess again.
Day 3 Answer Key: Deuteronomy 9:22–29
- 1. Taberah, Massah, Kibroth-hattaavah etc.
- 2. Go up and possess
- 3. Rebellion/distrust
- 4. Moses
- 5. Yahuah
- 6. People and inheritance
- 7. Deliverance from Egypt
- 8. Covenant and redemption invoked
- 9. Accurate verse citation
- 10. Text-grounded summary
- 11. Plea is direct text; inference labeled
- 12. Valid evidence from passage
Check for genuine independent understanding. For open tasks, require appropriate evidence. Reteach with an unfamiliar example and assess again.
Day 4 Answer Key: Deuteronomy 10:1–11
- 1. Earlier tablets broken
- 2. Moses
- 3. Ark
- 4. Yahuah wrote as before
- 5. Broken after calf episode
- 6. Set apart for service
- 7. Covenant renewed while consequences acknowledged
- 8. Moses
- 9. Israel
- 10. Text-supported summary
- 11. Any unwritten ritual claim
- 12. Contextual verse comparison
Check for genuine independent understanding. For open tasks, require appropriate evidence. Reteach with an unfamiliar example and assess again.
Day 5 Answer Key: Deuteronomy 10:12–22
- 1. What does Yahuah require?
- 2. Fear, walk, love, serve (any two)
- 3. Keep commandments and statutes
- 4. Circumcise heart / no longer stiff-necked
- 5. Justice and no partiality
- 6. Fatherless and widow
- 7. Love the stranger
- 8. Israel was strangers in Egypt
- 9. Correct verse-based commands
- 10. Clearly marked application
- 11. Reverence, love, obedience and justice
- 12. Covenant-focused comparison
Check for genuine independent understanding. For open tasks, require appropriate evidence. Reteach with an unfamiliar example and assess again.
Assessment and Progress Record
Suggested indicators: accurate concept, independent explanation, vocabulary or procedural fluency, and transfer to an unfamiliar example. This chapter alone does not establish year-level mastery. Record results privately.