UNIT # 1 SUB-SECTION: 4TIME: 150 minutes

UNIT TITLE: The Christian Person

TOPIC: Christian Justice Movements

EXPECTATIONS:

SC2.03 appreciate the role of the prophetic stance in both Biblical and contemporary culture

SC2.05 acknowledge that the love of God for all people demands justice

SC2.06 recognize the responsibility of Christians to work for justice and peace

SC3.01 locate biblical passages related to human dignity, justice, and reconciliation

SC3.06 express different ways that Christians can work for justice and peace as essential features of discipleship

PFV.05 acknowledge that the call to faith includes a call to justice

PF3.05 use technology in a moral and ethical fashion

DESCRIPTION: Students will research Christian based justice movements and complete a power point presentation for the class.

REFERENCES:

Alcoholics Anonymous (Greater Toronto Area)

Amnesty International, Canada

Birthright

Canadian Food for Children (Dr. Simone’s)

Covenant House (Toronto)

Covenant House (US)

Development and Peace

Habitat for Humanity Canada

L’Arche

L’Arche US

Rosalie Hall and

Salvation Army Canada

St. Vincent de Paul Society

World Vision

LEARNING ACTIVITIES:

  1. Discuss some justice movements local or global and identify which are Christian, from another religious base or non-denominational.
  2. In pairs, students choose one movement, which they will research.
  3. Students use two periods in the computer lab and their own time outside of class to complete the assignment using the instructions and rubric on the following activity sheet as guidelines.
  4. The entire project is done on the computers (i.e. research, creating presentation slides, emailing the finished product) .

ASSESSMENT/EVALUATION:

As per the attached evaluation scheme and rubric.

Activity sheet 4a

Grade 12 Theology

Christian Justice Movements Research project

Due Date:

Task:

  • Students are to prepare a minimum 10 slide power point presentation on one Christian justice movement.
  • Students will work in pairs.
  • You may choose one of the movements mentioned below or speak the teacher if you wish to choose a different justice movement.

-Alcoholics Anonymous

-Birthright

-Canadian Food for Children (Dr. Simone’s)

-Covenant House

-Development and Peace

-Habitat for Humanity

-L’Arche

-Rosalie Hall

-Romero House

-Human Rights Watch

-Greenpeace

-Salvation Army

-St. Vincent de Paul Society

-World Vision

-Catholic Worker Movement

  • This presentation should NOT be personalized; it is a research assignment on your topic and not a case study.
  • You are encouraged to bring a rough copy of your outline to your teacher before your presentation is done. Due: ______
  • A mark of zero is given if any of the information in your slides is plagiarized.

Activity sheet 4a (continued)

Your 10 slides will at least include:

  1. A creative title page that introduces the idea of the movement
  2. Answers to the following questions:
  3. Who founded this movement?
  4. When was it founded?
  5. Where was it founded?
  6. Why it was initiated?
  7. How does the movement operate?
  8. What issue of justice/peace does this institution address?
  9. What responsibility do we have as Christians to address this issue?
  10. What does the Catechism of the Catholic Church state about this issue?
  11. Name at least one bible passage that speaks to the movement or the issue addressed.
  12. How can an individual become involved in this movement?
  13. How is this movement addressed at our school? If it isn’t, then how could it be?
  14. Other relevant and interesting information about the movement.
  15. Some creative material.

Evaluation for Power Point Presentation.

Criteria / Level 4 / Level 3 / Level 2 / Level 1
Knowledge (10 marks)
•Identifies biblical and Catechism passages
•Answers questions / All information is accurate / Most information is accurate, but minor errors do not detract from presentation / Good attempt made at answering questions and finding passages / Limited attempt made to answer questions and find passages. Weak information
Thinking/Inquiry (10 marks)
•Responsibility of Christians to work for justice
•Research on movement / Well researched. Thorough under-standing of justice work / Good research, with a few gaps. Good under-standing of justice work / Research lacking details. Incomplete under-standing of why Christians work for justice / Limited research and almost no under-standing of justice work
Communication (10 marks)

•power point

•oral presentation / Both oral and visual presen-tations are well done / Minor errors in presenta-tions do not detract from it. / Errors in one or both lead to weak presentation / Numerous errors, unprepared lead to disappointing presentation
Application (10 marks)
•technology used appropriately
•creativity shown / Original material and ethical work shown / Some original work, but some of power point is taken from template / Attempt made at originality / Entire power point is taken from template

A student who fails to reach Level 1 (50-59%) will fail.

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