Baha’i class projects

Farzin Aghdasi

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These projects were used as part of pre-youth class activities in the Greater Johannesburg

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Project # 1

1) Theme:

Greatest Holy Leaf

2) Items to include:

· Her Name

· Her titles

· Tablets in her honour

· Some of her writings

· Her photograph

· Her biography

· Stories from her life

· The significance of her resting place

· Photograph of her shrine

· Some of the things that Baha’u’llah, Abdu’l-Baha or Shoghi Effendi wrote about her

· A bibliography of books and articles about her

3) Project book:

· This is for keeps, so buy a nice one, maybe hard cover, cover and decorate it.

4) Resources:

· Books, Libraries, Computers, Internet, Parents, etc.

5) Good luck! enjoy it!

Baha’i class project #2

1) Theme:

The Purest Branch

2) Items to include:

· His Name

· His titles

· Tablets in his honour

· His photograph

· His biography

· Stories from his life

· Circumstances of his passing away

· The significance of his sacrifice, and Baha’u’llah’s feelings about him

· Photograph of his shrine

· Some of the things that Baha’u’llah, Abdu’l-Baha or Shoghi Effendi wrote about him

· A bibliography of books and articles that contain material about him

3) Creative material:

You should try to include something from yourself about the Purest Branch. After you have read all your research material about him, you may be inspired to write a poem about him, or do a drawing/painting about his circumstances. You should feel free to be creative in this respect. It is important to be honest with yourself, and turn to your heart for inspiration.

4) Timing:

You will have much less time to do this project than you did for project #1. Therefore we will have two weeks to do this project. Please bring your work in progress to the class at the end of the first week, even if it is unfinished.

5) Project book:

Hopefully you all have a nice project book by now, which you may continue to decorate. Gradually a theme may emerge for your book.

6) Resources:

Books, Libraries, Computers, Internet, Parents, etc.

7) Good luck! enjoy it!

Baha’i class project #3

1) Theme:

Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to North America

2) Items to include:

· A chronology of the places He visited including dates and place names

· A map of His travels

· The purpose of this trip

· A few interesting pictures associated with the trip

· A few interesting stories

· Who was Fred Mortenson and what interesting thing did he do?

· Do you think that Abdu’l-Baha knew what was in the hearts of people? Find an example to illustrate your answer.

· A sample of a talk by Abdu’l-Baha

· Any interesting persons who met Abdu’l-Baha

· Who were Abdu’l-Baha’s disciples?

· How did America receive Abdu’l-Baha?

· What can a Baha’i travelling teacher learn from the way Abdu’l-Baha travelled?

· A bibliography of books and articles or Audio-visual material about the trip.

3) Timing:

You will have three weeks to do this project. You should have completed the chronology, and the map by the end of the first week. Please bring your work in progress to the class at the end of each week, even if it is unfinished.

4) Resources:

Books, Libraries, Computers, Internet, Parents, etc. Also the World Congress Videos

5) Management of Material:

You will find an incredible amount of material on this subject, including stories and pictures of such things as His car in New Jersey, His chair in Green Acre, or other memorabilia. You only need to take a sampling of such things. Good luck! enjoy it!

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