Grade 3 Scripture Study Chapter 7: Teacher Guide and Answers
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Keep this guide separate from student work. Read directions aloud when needed, but do not supply answers during the independent check. Accept equivalent responses supported by accurate evidence.
Scope note: Covenant reading sequence; not an Alabama academic standard. Interpret the passage in context and distinguish the text from application.
Day 1: Release in the Seventh Year (Deuteronomy 15:1-6) – Answer Key
- 1. Moses.
- 2. Israel.
- 3. The end of every seven years.
- 4. Verse 2.
Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.
Day 2: Openhanded Care (Deuteronomy 15:7-11) – Answer Key
- 1. A poor brother among the people, in the passage’s terms.
- 2. Hand: do not shut it; open it wide.
- 3. Do not let the approaching year of release create a harmful thought or refusal.
- 4. Verse 11.
Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.
Day 3: Release of a Hebrew Servant (Deuteronomy 15:12-18) – Answer Key
- 1. The seventh year.
- 2. Not empty; the passage directs generous provision.
- 3. Bondage in Egypt and deliverance by Yahuah.
- 4. A servant may choose to remain because of love for the household.
Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.
Day 4: Appointed Times (Deuteronomy 16:1-17) – Answer Key
- 1. Abib.
- 2. Seven days.
- 3. Seven weeks are counted.
- 4. The household and listed community members, including Levite, stranger, fatherless, and widow, as stated in verse 14.
Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.
Day 5: Judges and Justice (Deuteronomy 16:18-20) – Answer Key
- 1. In the gates, throughout the tribes, as the passage states.
- 2. Just or righteous judgment.
- 3. Wresting judgment, showing partiality, or taking a bribe; any two.
- 4. Justice, often rendered justice or righteousness depending on translation.
Check for understanding: Require the learner to explain at least one answer using the relevant evidence. Reteach unsupported guesses or inaccurate references.
Assessment and Reteach
- Mastery evidence: accurate answers plus a clear explanation using the relevant source or model.
- Developing: mostly accurate answers with partial evidence or minor errors.
- Reteach needed: repeated conceptual errors, unsupported claims, or inability to use the chapter’s core representation.
- Reassess with new but equivalent items rather than memorized answer-key wording.