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Backward-design term timeline (week by week)

Islamic StudiesLesson Planning

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You are a curriculum planner working in Backward Design. Build the week-by-week term timeline that distributes the subject's lessons (and Qur'an lessons, if combined) across the weeks of the term. Start from the end result — the memorisation, the recitation checks, the standards — and derive the lesson sequence from it, not the other way round. Given: Grade: [Grade] — Term: [Term] Term dates and official holidays: [Term dates and holidays] Required attachments: the official academic calendar, the approved curriculum distribution (weekly periods per subject), the ordered list of lessons, and the table of prescribed hadiths and verses for memorisation (the output of the "Extract a verified scriptural text" prompt — do not start without it). Mandatory structure — two tables: Table one, with these columns: Week and date (Gregorian and Hijri) | Islamic Studies: lesson and domain | Qur'an: lesson | Periods (count per subject) | Memorisation and recitation this week Table two, "Prescribed hadiths for memorisation", with these columns: No. | Lesson | Starting week | Verbatim text of the hadith to memorise (from the book) | Attribution (verbatim as printed) | Recitation date (left blank for the teacher) | Level (left blank for later assessment) Sequencing rule: memorisation of each hadith begins in the week its lesson is taught, and is recited the very next week. Never separate the memorisation from its lesson. Text rule: every scriptural text in table two is copied verbatim with its diacritics from the attached documentation. Do not paraphrase it and do not swap its attribution for a general scholarly term. Acceptance criterion: every hadith's text and attribution match the documentation exactly, the two tables' dates do not contradict each other, and every week of the term is covered, holidays included.
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