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Your Relationship with Jesus
This worksheet leads students to reflect on one of three Gospel passages in which Jesus interacts with the people around him and how he shows them compassion and mercy. Students will also reflect on their own relationship with Jesus and …
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Exploring the Lectionary
In this activity, partners read the readings for a specific feast day and identify key symbols, similarities, and differences that help make Mass more meaningful.
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Paul’s Missionary Journeys
This small-group activity asks students to read a Scripture passage about one of Paul’s missionary journeys. Students must then create several blog posts describing the story.
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Miracles
This small-group activity asks students to read several versions of a miracle of Jesus. Groups must then answer questions and create a storyboard to accompany the Scripture passage.
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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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An Interreligious Interview
This handout offers guidelines for setting up an interview with a person from a different religion.
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A Zoroastrian Symbol
This handout presents a Zoroastrian Symbol of faith and explains its elements. Students are then challenged to create their own symbol to represent their personal understanding of faith and human nature.
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Vocations: Answering God’s Call – Final Performance Task Options for Unit 3
Several project options that reinforce the main ideas of Unit 3.
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 5
Several final performance task project options for Unit 5 of The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth, Third Edition.
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 4
Several project ideas that coincide with Unit 4 of The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth, Third Edition.
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 4
Several final performance tasks options for Unit 4 of The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth Teacher Guide.
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Interview Questions for a Practicing Catholic
A list of interview questions to ask a practicing Catholic.
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 8 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
Several final performance task options for Unit 8 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 7 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
A list of several final performance task options for Unit 7 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 6 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
A list of several final performance task options for Unit 6 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 5 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
A list of several final performance task options for Unit 5 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
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Prayer Stations
Three prayer stations presenting ideas for craft projects to help make forgiveness more tangible for students.
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Final Performance Tasks Options for Unit 4 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
A listing of several final performance tasks options for Unit 4 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 3
A number of final performance task options for Unit 3 of "The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ."
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 2
A listing of final performance task options for Unit 2 of “The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ.”
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Final Performance Task Options for Unit 1
Options for final performance tasks for Unit 1 of "The Sacraments: Encounters with Christ."
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The Church Is One
This project is part of the Living in Christ Series. Students are asked to do research on the mark of the Church as 'One' using various websites.
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Scripture Search and Discussion: Living by the Spirit of Jesus
(25 minutes) Before the session. Ask one of the participants to serve as a reader. Then, write each of the four following words or phrases on a separate sheet of paper. If your group is large, you might want to …
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The Connections Binder: A Theology Project
The Connections Binder encourages students to find meaningful connections between the content they are studying in class and something from the world outside the classroom that they find interesting or appealing. I assign this project at the beginning of my …
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Building Faith Community in the High School
In a workshop entitled "The Catholic High School as Faith Community," religion teachers, campus ministers, and school administrators discussed, among many things, the obstacles they face in trying to build faith community in their school. One obstacle they addressed was …
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Taking Off on the Ten Commandments
This classroom strategy is based on a method used by Fr. Steve Brice while teaching religion at Aquinas High School, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Young people love humor and satire. One way to alleviate pressures students feel from the culture around …
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Using Imaginative Retellings in Teaching the Bible
Biblical stories have been imaginatively retold over and over again for centuries. A particular type of retelling, in which students assume the role of a biblical character then retell the story using a first-person point of view, has proven effective …