A student's reflection of Joshua 8:30-35

I love opportunities where students can give their representations, reflections and ideas of how a story in the Bible looks, sounds and feels like. We set up the story, read it and discuss it. Our discussions are shorter as they are harder to facilitate on Zoom. I try to give them some cultural pieces that would have applied to these people long ago as well. We have been walking through the book of Joshua in Bible 7 (7th grade Bible) and after reading Joshua 8:30-35, students were given a choice to write what the scene would have looked like or to sketch a picture using Kami where there are drawing tools. I was surprised at how many students chose to draw! I will write out the passage here for you then share some of their drawings and thoughts on this passage. Enjoy!

Joshua 8:30-35 (ESV):
At that time Joshua built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the people of Israel, as it is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, "an altar of uncut stones, upon which no man has wielded an iron tool." And they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord and sacrificed peace offerings. And there, in the presence of the people of Israel, he wrote on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written. And all Israel, sojourner as well as native born, with their elders and officers and their judges, stood on opposite sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, half of them in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded at the first, to bless the people of Israel. And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners who lived among them.