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English term or phrase:Department
***Department*** memory work.
It would be particularly appropriate for leaders of the various ***departments*** to plan a weekly session of memory work so that the whole ***department*** can recite together the ten commandments. Ideally, all children should be given the commandments printed out on a sheet to take home and learn.
In a book for Sunday School teachers . What departments are these?
Explanation: "Department" is not the same as "class" or "grade level." Here's a simplified example:
Preschool Department: Babies through kindergarten, 0-5 years.
Primary Department: First three grades of elementary school, 6-9 years.
Middler Department: Next three grades of school, 10-12 years
Junior High Department: Next three grades of school, 13-15 years
Youth Department: High School and college-aged young adults
Adult Department: All adults
In the larger churches, each department may consist of many different classes, with a superintendent for each department. In a very small church, each department may be one class, or two departments may be combined, and there is usually one superintendent over all the classes.
In Spanish I have seen these departments: Párvulos, Principiantes, Primarios, Intermedios, Jóvenes, and Adultos. Many other schemes of departmental division are possible. It all depends on the needs of the particular church, and on the levels designed into the curriculum.
'Department' is definitely an appropriate word, and is used in all Sunday Schools of the kind the author is describing. 'Department' is not the same as 'class' - a single department consists of many classes. Departments are indeed based on broad age groupings, which is in fact what marybro says (grade 1-3, grade 4-6). A single department may consist of a hundred children or more (and it is children, not adults, that the author is talking about). The entire department will gather for corporate worship at the beginning of Sunday School, while other departments do the same in other parts of the building. This part of the meeting may also include a short talk, revision of the previous week's lesson, and reciting of memory work. Then the children split off into classes of 6-10 for a Bible lesson with their class teacher.
I see your point, Sheila, but I think what's happening here is that each department (i.e. all the classes in that department) is encouraged to assemble and do their memory work as a large group. I visualize 10 minutes or so as a large group to work on memorizing and reciting the 10 Commandments before splitting into classes for the regular Bible lesson.
It seems to me that the last term must refer to a single unit ie class/group where they recite together. The others may or may not refer to multiple classes
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department
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Explanation: Adapted From: WordNet 2.0 Copyright 2003 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
department
A noun
1 department
a specialized sphere of knowledge; "baking is not my department"; "his work established a new department of literature"
Category Tree:
psychological feature
╚cognition; knowledge; noesis
╚content; cognitive content; mental object
╚idea; thought
╚concept; conception; construct
╚property; attribute; dimension
╚feature; characteristic
╚aspect; facet
╚sector; sphere
╚department
2 department, section
a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"
Category Tree:
group; grouping
╚social group
╚organization; organisation
╚unit; social unit
╚administrative unit; administrative body
╚division
╚department, section
╚security; security department
╚payroll; payroll department
╚government department
╚personnel department; personnel office; personnel; staff office
╚business department
╚academic department
3 department
the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
Category Tree:
entity
╚location
╚region
╚district; territory; territorial dominion; dominion
╚administrative district; administrative division; territorial division
╚department
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