catholic connections—school edition

This teacher guide will help to expand your students' knowledge of Jesus Christ and teach them that Christ stands at the center of salvation history, at the center of parish life, and in the hearts of believers.

This teacher guide will help to expand your students' knowledge of the Holy Spirit and teach them that the Holy Spirit energizes and brings life to the Church and to all baptized believers.

This teacher guide will help to expand your students' knowledge and explore how God reveals himself to us, focusing on two main modes of God's revelation: the Scriptures and Tradition.

This guide will cover the many different forms of liturgy—with the Eucharist foremost among them. Other forms of liturgy include the Sacraments and special prayers, such as morning and evening blessings, that are prayed communally. The chapters in this unit of the handbook examine each of these forms of liturgy, beginning with an introduction of the meaning of liturgy and moving into a close look at each of the Sacraments.

Christian morality is built on God’s steadfast call to us to live in right relationship with him and with others. God has given us the Ten Commandments as a guide for living in right relationship. This course will help the students to learn about the moral principles embodied in the Ten Commandments.

In these chapters, the students will explore prayer and its place in their own lives and the life of the Church.

This manual will help you organize and oversee the religion education classes developed around The Catholic Connections Handbook for Middle Schoolers. The manual provides a variety of scheduling options for course selection and for different numbers of classes per week to help in planning the year’s curriculum.

The Student Activity Booklet is designed to expand the students’ learning of the chapter content and to provide them with opportunities for reflection, for critical thinking about how what they have learned applies to their own lives, and for creative ways to explore the material.

Chapter tests for all of Catholic Connection’s teacher guides are available in this booklet. Tests contain a combination of objective questions in a variety of formats, such as sentence completion and multiple choice, as well as essay questions. Each test is weighted at 100 points. Each objective question has a value of 10 points and the essay question a value of 20 points. Answers for the tests and the pages of the handbook on which test questions are covered are provided in the answer key, found at the end of the booklet.