Duty to God Footsteps requirements (Wolf)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: sort the plate

Give the Scouts who arrive first something to do, so the meeting starts the moment they walk in.

• Lay out picture cards of a dozen everyday foods on the gathering table.
• Ask arriving Scouts to sort them into the food groups without any help from an adult.
• Leave the sorted cards out. You will point at them again during the activity block.

0:10 · 5 min

Opening

Flag ceremony, Scout Oath and Scout Law. The same five minutes every week, run by the Scouts.

• The denner calls the den to order and leads the flag ceremony.
• Say the Scout Oath and the Scout Law together. New Scouts read from a card and nobody makes anything of it.
• One sentence on tonight's adventure, Duty to God Footsteps, and the one thing everybody will get done.

0:15 · 5 min

Talk time

Den business while everyone is still sitting down, and a look at what is coming.

• The two dates parents need: the next den meeting and the next pack event.
• Ask who already did part of Duty to God Footsteps at home, and write the names down so it gets recorded.
• Take one question from the den. Answer it or say when you will.

0:20 · 12 min

Activity 1: Discuss with your parent

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Duty to God Footsteps.

• Sit the den in a circle, or in small groups if you have more than eight Scouts.
• Read "Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or other caring adult what it means to do your duty to God" out loud and give the den ten seconds of quiet before anyone answers.
• Take one answer from every Scout. Nobody gets skipped and nobody gets rushed.
• Write the den's answers on a flip chart so parents can read them at pickup.
• Then requirement 2: read "Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age, if you have not already done so" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Offer a prayer, meditation, or reflection

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Duty to God Footsteps.

• Sit the den in a circle, or in small groups if you have more than eight Scouts.
• Read "Offer a prayer, meditation, or reflection with your family, den, or pack" out loud and give the den ten seconds of quiet before anyone answers.
• Take one answer from every Scout. Nobody gets skipped and nobody gets rushed.
• Write the den's answers on a flip chart so parents can read them at pickup.
• Then requirement 4: read "Read a story about people or groups of people who came to America to enjoy religious freedom" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: Learn and sing a song that could

Close requirements 5 and 6 of Duty to God Footsteps.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Learn and sing a song that could be sung in reverence before" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
• Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
• Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.
• Then requirement 6: hand it to your guest, who gets fifteen minutes and one ask: "Visit a religious monument or site where people might show reverence".

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:55 · 5 min

Closing

End on time, and make sure every Scout leaves knowing what they finished.

• Cubmaster's minute: one short thought tied to what the den just did. Sixty seconds, no lecture.
• Read back what got finished tonight, requirement by requirement, so the Scouts hear their own progress.
• Send the den off with the den yell, and catch the parents who need to hear something at pickup.