Notebook Studies: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Part 2

• Day 1 The Spell begins to break, Aslan is nearer Chapters 10-11. Despite the fact that Christmas has no meaning in Narnia - shouldn't they be celebrating Aslan's birth? CS Lewis includes a reference to Father Christmas in the story. Why might he have done so.
  
  
• Day 2 Chapters 12 - 13 The first battle & The deal,
  Look at the idea of atonement - use a dictionary to define the term and Substitutionary. What does substitutionary atonement mean. Discuss what it means for us as Christians. How is this seen in the story. What is the curse in the story, what is the curse in the world.
  
  
• Day 3 Chapters 14 - 15 Deep magic and deeper magic.
  Read worldview section. Discuss the similarities and differences between the work of Christ on the cross and the death and resurrection of Aslan.
  
  
• Day 4 Chapters 16-17 These last two chapters allow Narnia Game and Medieval Dinner. To finish the term. Use the medieval meal ideas from the Veritas Press Middle Ages CD, incorporating a cheese board, the beef stew and trenchers, Wassial (non-alcoholic version of spiced wine) Given that it is Narnia we can enjoy a more English fruit cake to finish the meal or an old fashioned plum pudding and custard. (It lets us have the quirks of post war Oxford meets middle ages)
  

Writing and Art: Write an Econium about Aslan and his sacrifice on the stone table. For the comparision portion consider how the sacrifice of Aslan is similar to and different than Christ’s sacrifice for his people.

Aslan is not a tame lion, but he is good. Explain this statement using examples from the book. How does this relate to our experience of God.

Or Creative writing exercise. Write your own story based on the idea of stepping through a wardrobe into another world. Imagine what that world would look like. What people or creatures would you come across. What problem would you encounter and solve, or what purpose would your time there have. Use Theons 6 to plan your story.


For Art I would equally like to center on the stone table or on an impression of what the atonement was about. We should see an inclusion ofthe ideas of value and line in our work.