Grade 3 Scripture Study Chapter 7: Deuteronomy 15-16: Release, Worship and Justice
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This original five-day chapter is part of a developing Grade 3 course, not a complete 36-week curriculum. Keep student work private. Chapter 7 fillable workbooks are available on the practice pages.
Planning reference: Covenant reading sequence; not an Alabama academic standard.
Day 1: Release in the Seventh Year (Deuteronomy 15:1-6)
Read the passage in the family’s chosen translation. Identify speaker, audience, covenant setting, and the instruction about release. Summarize without turning a modern example into a quotation from the text.
Guided practice: Work the first item aloud. The learner completes the remaining items and supports answers with a model, text detail, data point, map feature, or verse reference as appropriate.
- Who is speaking in the chapter’s setting?
- To whom is the instruction addressed?
- What time marker appears in verse 1?
- Which verse states the release instruction most directly?
Day 2: Openhanded Care (Deuteronomy 15:7-11)
Observe repeated commands and reasons in the passage. Distinguish what the verses state from a family’s present-day application. Use verse references with every factual claim.
Guided practice: Work the first item aloud. The learner completes the remaining items and supports answers with a model, text detail, data point, map feature, or verse reference as appropriate.
- Who is described as being in need?
- What body-part image is repeated?
- What warning concerns the seventh year?
- Which verse says the poor will not cease from the land?
Day 3: Release of a Hebrew Servant (Deuteronomy 15:12-18)
Trace the sequence carefully: service, release, provision, remembrance, and the optional sign described later. Do not detach one verse from the surrounding legal and historical context.
Guided practice: Work the first item aloud. The learner completes the remaining items and supports answers with a model, text detail, data point, map feature, or verse reference as appropriate.
- In what year is release described?
- How should the released person be sent out?
- What past event is Israel told to remember?
- What choice is described in verses 16-17?
Day 4: Appointed Times (Deuteronomy 16:1-17)
Read the sections on Passover and Unleavened Bread, Weeks, and Booths. Make a chart with the appointed time, actions named, people included, and verse range. Avoid adding calendar calculations not present in the passage.
Guided practice: Work the first item aloud. The learner completes the remaining items and supports answers with a model, text detail, data point, map feature, or verse reference as appropriate.
- Which month is named with Passover?
- How many days of unleavened bread are stated?
- What count begins the Feast of Weeks section?
- Who is included in rejoicing for the Feast of Booths?
Day 5: Judges and Justice (Deuteronomy 16:18-20)
The chapter closes with instructions concerning judges, officers, judgment, partiality, bribes, and justice. Compare repeated words and explain how each warning supports fair judgment.
Guided practice: Work the first item aloud. The learner completes the remaining items and supports answers with a model, text detail, data point, map feature, or verse reference as appropriate.
- Where are judges and officers to be appointed?
- What kind of judgment is commanded?
- Name two corrupting actions prohibited.
- What word or idea is repeated in verse 20?
Advanced Extension
Create a new example, data set, text, map question, investigation, or contextual comparison that extends the chapter. Explain the reasoning and identify what evidence would be needed to check the work.