Moses

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Moses: The Calling of a Leader
In this story, Moses is born to a Slave family in Egypt. Before Moses was born, the Pharaoh passed a law to prevent the growth of the Israeli slaves by stating that all newborn Israeli slave boys were to be sent down the river to die. The Egyptians did this out of fear that The Israeli's would rebel and over power the Egyptian people. After Moses' mother hid him for three months and she could not longer hide him, she put him in basket and sent him down the Nile river. There he was found by the Pharaoh's daughter and was taken in. Moses grew up to be a strong and intelligent man. He also saw the suffering of the Israeli people. One day, he saw and Egyptian beating and Israel and killed the Egyptian. The Pharaoh was angered by this and banished him. After arriving in Midian, he married, had children, and became a Shepard. During this time the Pharaoh died and the Israeli people cried out for __help__. __God__ heard them, and showed him self to Moses in the __form__ of a burning bush and told him to go back to Egypt and __free__ the Israeli people.

**Go Down, Moses**
In this poem, __God__ has given Moses the command to __free__ the Israeli people. God is also giving Moses the directions he need to accomplish this unimaginable task.

**Challenging Pharaoh**
After receiving word from God to go and __free__ the Israel people, Moses, along with Aaron, went to see the Pharaoh and tell him to __free__ the Israeli people. However the Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he refused to let the people go. After this, Moses got direction from God to bring about the plagues of Egypt. Starting with turning the Nile from water to blood. However the Pharaoh resisted that and resisted eight more plagues including swarms of frogs, gnats, flies, and locusts; boils and cattle disease; hail; and daylong darkness. However this last plagues caused the Egyptians to let the Israeli people go. Every first born in the land of Egypt died. The Pharaoh's first born __son__ died and the Israeli's fled Egypt. However the angered Pharaoh sent soldiers after them. The Israeli's thought they were trapped between the Red Sea and the soldiers but Moses parted the sea and they got through. The Israels were finally __free__.

**Moses**
Moses is talking about his journey during his time in Egypt and he is now walking home to Israel.

**Runagate Runagate**
Harriet Tubman is speaking through the perspective of a run away slave. She speaks about the struggles of being a slave and being hunted, and being a leader to freedom like Moses previously was.

**In the Wilderness**
Moses and Aaron are now leading the Israeli people to the __holy land__. After 15 days of travel and being weak with hunger and exhaustion, God heard the Israeli people and gave them the bread. After about three new moons later and still wandering in the wilderness, Moses went to talk to God and to make a convent between him, Moses, and the people of Israel. God and Moses also created the Ten Commandments. However, after a long three months the people needed something and began melting all of their gold and created a golden calf to worship. When Moses came to see this, he was furious, he scolded the people and destroyed the calf. The Israeli's people have sinned against God, so Moses went up to the mountain to talk to God. In their conversation, God still wanted the Israel people to be __led__ back to the __holy land__ and after 40 days and 40 nights with God, they still created the 10 commandments and the covenant. As punishment for their sin, The Israeli people remained wandering in the wilderness for 40 years, more than an entire generation. After 40 years, Moses passes away at age 120. The people at Israel mourned his death for 30 days and then continued their journey with Joshua as their leader. Not long after, they arrived at the city of Jericho. The city was given to them by God and all __men__ and women rejoiced in the fact that they are home.



Moses: The Calling of a Leader
If you were in Moses shoes, would you have followed God's command? What would you have done if you were an Israeli girl and had to kill your son? Why do you think God did not hear their calls sooner?

**Go Down, Moses**
What __special__ meaning do you think the Moses/Exodus story had to the first singers of this song? (Slave People) Why do you think people sing this song?

**Challenging Pharaoh**
At one point Moses asks, "o lord, why hast thou done evil to this people?" People often question God's action. Why do you think this is? Why was the Pharaoh unconvinced even though God made many plagues happen to Egypt? What would your reaction have been? Do you think God doesn't like Egyptians?

**Moses**
Who do you think the narrator is in this poem? Do you think they are describing one or more of events that are occurring?

**Runagate Runagate**
Do you think Harriet Tubman chose the alias, Moses the staler of slaves for herself? Why? Who do you think is the narrator?

**In the Wilderness**
Do you think it was fair for God to punish the Israeli people by letting them wonder in the wilderness for 40 years? If you were put in that situation would you be so desperate to worship a golden calf? Why do you think Israel is the Holy Land? Do you think God had anything to do with Moses living to 120 years old?

Supplementary Material:
In Go down, Moses, God has given him the command to free the Israeli people but that is also true in the story Moses: The Calling Leader. The people who are going through the slavery maybe different in their ethnicity and time period but they are still experience in pain. In both passages they are passionate about freedom. One difference is that Moses was commanded while the slaves of America in the situation found ways to freedom. Both stories explains how far people will go to obtain freedom.

In Moses, and in In The Wilderness, both give explanation about how their journey's back to the Holy land. However in Moses they talk about the conditions about the people walking back. In the Wilderness they talk more about God. The importance of these two is what they went through to reach the holy land.

Challenging Pharaoh and Runagate Runagate, in both story people escape and rules/owners try to get the back. There different in time period, people, and meeting. But they all look to God to help them along their journey. These stories show we take freedom for granted. These people show that Israel and African American people are strong.

Outside Material:
The story of Moses relates to many outside stories. An example of this is an Movie called A Women Called Moses. (clip below) As Moses led the Israeli people out of Egypt, Harriet Tubman let the African American slaves out of the South. Both of them are strong leaders and firm believers of God. The two of them have many similarities however the time periods they are from are different. Moses also helped the people because of God's command and Harriet Tubman helped the slaves out of the kindness of her heart.

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Another example of outside material is the story of Sargon Akkad. Both were send down the river by their mothers and then were rescued by others on the other side. Though Moses was rescued by the Pharaoh's daughter and Sargon was rescued by a Gardner. They both became great leaders but for different reasons. Sargon became a great leader by conquering many different places however Moses didn't conquer and still became a great leader.

Another example is the story of Odysseus. Both of them are leaders to their people. Odysseus to the Greeks and Moses to the Jewish. They did not decide to be a hero. However Odysseus went to war and Moses just followed God's command. They were both made heroes in history.



Study Guide/Quiz Questions:
How did Moses end up being raised by the Pharaoh daughter? What did Moses do to get banned out of Egypt? What was the name of the women who married him? How did god present himself in front of Moses? Was Moses willing or hesitant to taken on God's command? Explain? What was the 10 comments? Who became the leader after Moses died? Where did the Jewish people end up?