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Joy and Hope for the Modern World
This handout provides questions for students to reflect on and answer as they read quotations from this Constitution.
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The Seven Petitions
On this handout, students match the meaning to each line of the Lord’s Prayer.
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A Prayer Puzzle
On this handout, students must use clues to unscramble words related to prayer.
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Spirit Telecom: The Universal Wireless Prayer Network
This handout guides students as they locate and read various Scripture passages focusing on the many way God calls us to prayer.
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Mercenary, Slave, or Disciple
Students identify their motivation for doing good deeds before reflecting on the role of grace in their lives.
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The Spirit in Multiple Acts
Students look up and read several passages that the Holy Spirit. The worksheet asks students to summarize each passage and describe the role of the Holy Spirit in spreading the Good News.
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Jesus’ Healings’ Common Points
Students look up and read several miracle stories from the New Testament before identifying common points between them.
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YES! We Do!
This handout helps provides the dialogue for the students to renew their baptismal promises as a class.
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What about You?
After reading Mark 8:27-29, students must answer several questions about who Jesus is to today’s world and people.
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I’m in This Story?
Students must look up several Scripture passages that give insight into the disciples of Jesus. This worksheet poses questions that help make Jesus’ mission relatable to students.
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The Two Feet of Service and Justice
This chart provides students space to create examples of acts of charity and social justice for several real-life situations.
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Married Couple Interview
This handout provides the outline for an interview of a married couple.
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Dear Millie and Mike
This handout provides several real-life situations that teens might encounter. Students are challenged to respond to the situations and give advice to other teens.
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Fair Trade
This worksheet provides questions for students to answer as they research and learn about the Fair Trade Movement.
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Extra! Extra!
Students read two “news articles” and evaluate the morality of each by answering a series of questions.
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Music to My Ears
Students evaluate a contemporary piece of music based on several different categories of violence and disrespect.
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Ways to Respect Life
This worksheet challenges students to think about how they can value the dignity of life on a day-to-day basis.
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Justice in the World
This worksheet challenges students to think about how the teachings about Justice from the Bishops of the World apply to their daily lives.
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Teachings from the Catechism
This worksheet challenges students to think about how the teachings from the Catechism on the fourth commandment apply to their daily lives.
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Which Way Shall We Go?
This handout provides a chart for students to list activities that are best to do on Sunday and those that should be saved for other days of the week.
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A Doctrinal Scavenger Hunt
A scavenger hunt to find important Church doctrines, teachings and beliefs in the Catechism.
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The Transfiguration of Jesus
This worksheet helps students to read Scripture passages, answer questions about, and understand the importance of the Transfiguration of Jesus.
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Lead Me Not into Temptation
This handout presents different roles for students to act out from a real-life theft situation
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The Bible’s Practical Moral Advice
This worksheet guides students as they look up Scripture passages that give moral advice.
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Beatitudes Strips
A list of the Beatitudes organized to be cut into strips for a class activity.
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Mary’s Little Lamb
This worksheet helps students to reflect on the numerous images of the lamb found in Scripture.
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Final Performance Tasks for Unit 2
This handout presents two project possibilities to assess student understanding of the concepts learned in Unit 2.
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Mind Map: From the Spoken Word to the Written Word
This Mind Map helps students to organize and brainstorm ideas about friends, school, sports, and family.
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Journal Entry: Inspiration
This is a journal prompt which asks students to reflect on times when they have been given advice.
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Unit 2 Preassessment: "Meet Me in the Middle" Concepts
This preassessment lists many key concepts to be covered in Unit 2.
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Learning about Learning
This is a self-evaluation to help students reflect on their learning during Unit 1.
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Rubrics for Final Performance Tasks for Unit 1
This is the rubric to evaluate student’s final projects for Unit 1.
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Final Performance Tasks for Unit 1
This handout provides two project possibilities to assess student understanding of the concepts covered in Unit 1.
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Creating a Triptych
This is a description for an art project where students express the relationship between Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition.
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The Socratic Seminar
This handout provides a set of guidelines and instructions to help students successfully participate in a Socratic seminar.
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God’s Presence in Nature
This assignment helps students to create a poem of praise about an object in nature.
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Responding to God’s Invitation: Exemplary Models
This project asks students to research an exemplary model of what it means to be the best person that God created each of us to be.
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I Am . . .
This is a project description that asks students to create a poster as they explore their identity.
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Unit 1 Preassessment: Knowing God
This preassessment poses questions about how students have come to know God.
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Primary Source Reader Correlations
This is a list of articles and other sources to accompany student learning as they discover who is Jesus Christ.
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New Testament References to Eternal Life
This handout lists Scripture passages to be read by students that reference eternal life and how Jesus makes it possible for us to attain it.
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Catholic Social Teaching and the Common Good
This worksheet helps students to take notes as they read articles and make connections to the principles of Catholic Social Teaching.
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To Be a Disciple
This handout asks students to complete a chart by listing examples of discipleship at the time of Jesus and today.
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Unit 5 Preassessment
This preassessment for Unit 5 asks students to identify how faith, religion, discipleship, and prayer are important to their relationship with God.
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Final Performance Tasks for Unit 4
This handout provides two project options that allow students to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts learned in Unit 4.
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Reflection on the Greatest Commandments and the Judgment of the Nations
This handout challenges students to reflect on the application of the greatest commandment in their own lives.
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The Movie Tells a Story
This worksheet provides questions for students to reflect on and answer while watching a movie.
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Fully Human
This handout poses questions and gives statements that challenge to think about what it means to be fully human and how Jesus exemplified that in his life.
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What It Means to Be Human
This handout helps students list characteristics that come from society and from Jesus’ teachings that describe what it means to be human.
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Unit 4 Preassessment
This preassessment asks students to complete phrases about the concepts to be covered in Unit 4.
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Rubrics for Final Performance Tasks for Unit 3
This is the rubric for two projects designed to assess student understanding of the concepts presented in Unit 3.
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Final Performance Tasks for Unit 3
This handout presents two projects to assess student understanding of the concepts presented in Unit 3.
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Faith in Action
This handout challenges students to create a poster representing the ways they participate in Jesus’ mission to serve others.
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Called to Service
This handout asks students to list examples of people in their lives that are serving the community in the various Christian vocations.
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Getting to Know Mary
Students look up various Bible passages to create an understanding of who Mary was.
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Unit 3 Preassessment
This preassessment identifies student understanding of the concepts to be presented in Unit 3.
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Discovering God in Creation
Students think of examples when they have experienced or discovered God in creation.
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From the Apostles to Us
Students create a storyboard to show how God is revealed in Sacred Tradition.
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God’s Revelation through Sacred Scripture
This handout provides an outline for students to record key points taught by other groups from this section.
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Vocabulary for Unit 2
This is a list of words and definitions to be learned throughout Unit 2.
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Unit 2 Preassessment
This preassessment helps students identify what they know and want to know about concepts from Unit 2.
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Rubrics for Final Performance Tasks for Unit 1
This is a rubric to assess the final project options for Unit 1.
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Final Performance Tasks for Unit 1
Two possible projects to assess student understanding of concepts learned in Unit 1.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 32
A lesson plan for lesson 32 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide. In this lesson students explore what it means to use virtues and grace to live a moral life.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 31
A lesson plan for lesson 31 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide. In this lesson students explore what it means to respect truth.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 30
A lesson plan for lesson 30 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide. In this lesson students explore what it means to respect material goods.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 29
A lesson plan for lesson 29 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide. In this lesson students explore what it means to respect the sexuality of ourselves and others.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 28
A lesson plan for lesson 28 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide. In this lesson students explore what it means to truly respect life.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 27
A lesson plan for lesson 27 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 26
A lesson plan for lesson 26 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 25
A lesson plan for lesson 25 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 23
A lesson plan for lesson 23 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide.
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Lesson Plan for Lesson 4
A lesson plan for lesson 4 in The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth: Catechist Guide.
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The Consequences of Moral Decisions
This handout examines how actions, attitudes, and decisions affect ourselves and the people around us
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Jesus' Priorities
An individual worksheet where students rank the priority Jesus placed on certain values in his ministry
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A Reference Guide to the Gospel Story
A partial list of scripture references for Jesus’ miracles, parables, important teachings, and life events
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Isaiah: The Peaceable Kingdom Is Coming!
This handout offers a brief look at the use of Isaiah’s visions of the kingdom during Advent.
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When To Keep Things Confidential
After reading several pieces of information that might be shared by a friend, students decide which should be kept confidential and which might be shared with others.
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Please Help
This is a writing prompt to help students reflect on what it is like to be a virgin in society today.
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Questionnaire on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS
This handout provides a list of True/False statements about sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS.
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Role-play: "I'm Pregnant"
This handout provides two role-play situations in which a couple has discovered they are pregnant.
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Opinionnaire on Gender Roles (Part 2)
Students share their opinions in response to a series of statements about gender roles in society.
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Opinionnaire on Gender Roles (Part 1)
Students share their opinions in response to a series of statements about gender roles in society.
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How Do I Know That I Am Fully Alive?
This handout asks students to rank statements according to their beliefs about what it means to be fully alive.
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Cases to Examine: Dealing with Conflict
This handout provides three situations for students to read and evaluate. Students must give a suggestion for how to respond to the conflict in each scenario based on the strategies in the book.
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Cases to Examine: Is This Euthanasia?
This handout provides three situations for students to read and evaluate. Students must decide if the story shows an example of Euthanasia.
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The Ending is Yours
This handout provides the beginning of a story about a teen who is about to break up with his girlfriend. Students are to complete the story following teacher instructions.
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Cases to Examine: Self-respect
This handout provides three situations where teenagers are not fully respecting themselves. Students read the situations and respond with suggestions that demonstrate more self-respect.
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Role-plays: Kindness and Truth
This handout provides two role-play situations for students to practice open, honest communication in a kind, truthful way.
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TV Truth: Keeping a Record
This handout provides a chart to help students keep track of the types of truths and lies portrayed on TV.
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An Inventory on Money Matters
This handout provides a chart to help students keep track of their expenditures during one week
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Pushed Once Too Often
This handout presents a story about drug pushing in a school community. Students are challenged to reflect on several questions regarding the situation.
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Vocabulary for Unit 3
Vocabulary terms for Unit 3 of "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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WebQuest Searching for Signs of Social Sin
A WebQuest on searching for signs of social sin, from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Determing the Elements of Human Acts
A worksheet on determining the elements of human acts from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Gospel Reflection on Sin and Salvation
A Gospel reflection on sin and salvation from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Defining Sin
A worksheet on defining sin from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Sin and Salvation
A worksheet on sin and salvation from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Reading Guide for the Splendor of the Truth
A reading guide for the Splendor of Truth from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Values in New Testament Moral Teachings
A worksheet on values in New Testament moral teachings from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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A Look at Moral Law
A look at moral law from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Ignatius of Loyola and the Gift of Freedom
A reading on Saint Ignatius of Loyola and the Gift of Freedom, from "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Survey Summary Life in Christ
A survey summary for "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Vocabulary for Unit 1
A vocabulary list for Unit 1 of "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Unit 1 Preassessment
A preassessment for Unit 1 of "Christian Morality: Our Response to God's Love."
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Blooms Taxonomy and Understanding by Design
An article on Benjamin Bloom's concept of taxonomy and understanding by design.
