Year 8 Term 1 2008: Belonging and acceptance in Catholic Communities
Week 2: Raising religious awareness: Community
Week 3-4: Jesus promoted community e.g. 12 Apostles
Week 5-10: Christian response: community prayer, commandments, The Creed – communion of Saints
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/ STRATEGIES / RESOURCES / Homework & ASSESSMENT2 / Chapter One: Students understand that the meaning of personal
experiences of human yearnings to belong leads to community
What does it mean to feel accepted and belong? Write down responses and discuss.
What is a community? Give examples of different kinds.
3 characteristics of community (pg8)
Human Potential (pg7)
Family as a community – the 3 characteristics (pg 10)
Construct a family tree (pg 9) and create a name plaque (pg 12)
In small groups students select one form of community and find examples of the three basic characteristics of their chosen community.
Individual groups present their chosen community’s basic characteristics to the rest of the class.
Invite students to consider their life journey from infancy to present time. Have students imagine walking through a creek with various stepping-stones as significant steps or markers of life incidents.
Throughout the journey, have students consider:
– important or significant events and/or experiences
– significant challenges and hard times
– times of success, achievement, happiness and fun (memorable events).
For each of the above, have students outline the people who have also been present and who have had a significant impact upon their life.
Encourage students to use different colours that might help capture the mood or energy in the particular remembered situation. Offer a chance for sharing what has been thought and illustrated. / Come Follow Me
(Yr 8 Student RE Resource)
Pgs 5 - 8
Community: http://www.dictionary.com for the meaning of community
A4 cardboard
A3 cardboard / Research find out the meaning of your birth name & surname
Copy gospel quote (pg 10) and for homework answer question in a paragraph.
How do teenagers grow in their families?
Finish for homework
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/ STRATEGIES / RESOURCES / Homework & ASSESSMENT3 / Chapter Two: Students understand that Parish and the Catholic school are Church communities
Teachers provide students with copies of the CATHOLIC CHURCH section in the Business Listings of the White Pages. Students to count the number of parishes listed and the number of Catholic Schools, both primary and secondary.
This task will help students to understand that that each Catholic school is a Church community. (Teachers should point out to students that almost all Catholic primary schools are part of a parish community which is why they have the same name eg. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School. By contrast, Catholic secondary schools are generally not as closely associated with one parish community. They will have ties with a number of parishes).
Students read passage and outline how the parish & school reflects community characteristics.
Get Father Daniel or Father Richard in to speak to students about the ways his parish reflects the characteristics of community, identified in the Student Resource.
Students are required to create an advertisement for the Broome parish in the hope that it will attract more members of the local community.
Why do people still sometimes feel isolated in a community/fail to accept community responsibilities? (pg 21)
Journal Activity (pg 21) / Perth White Pages Directory: Catholic Church section
Come Follow Me
Pgs 16 (copy for reading)
Guest Speaker: Parish Priest / Introduce Assessment One
To be completed for homework
Due: Tuesday 4th March (Wk 5)
4 / Chapter Three: Jesus came to call people into communion with God.
Students complete Learning Activity 10, which gets
student to explore the basic elements of the Bible. (This is a
particularly useful exercise for those students who are not very
familiar with the Bible or who have not been to a Catholic primary
school.)
What are the Gospels? Read pgs 23-24
Write a short summary in own words.
Students then match the symbols of the Gospels with the
appropriate descriptions in Learning Activity Sheet 11.
Answer questions pg 26 (if time permits) / Learning Activity 10: Let’s
explore the Bible
Come Follow Me
Pgs 23/24 (copy for reading)
Learning Activity 11: Gospel Symbols
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/ STRATEGIES / RESOURCES / Homework & ASSESSMENT5 / Chapter Four: The saving power of God
Read pgs 27-28 and complete the comprehension questions in Learning Activity 12.
Read to students pg29-30
Using Learning Activity 13, students create a brochure, series of posters or video segment (to be displayed during centenary) to help advertise their school community as a community which promotes the Kingdom of God.
(examples of life at the school e.g. extra-curricular activities, retreats, camps, sporting activities, house activities, pastoral care programs offered etc.) / Come Follow Me
Pgs 27-28 (copy for reading)
Learning Activity 12: The Power
of the Kingdom of God
Learning Activity 13:
A community of God / Assessment 1 Due
Finish @ home incomplete work
6 / Chapter Five: The Human and divine natures of Jesus
Working in small groups, students then complete the task outlined
in Learning Activity 15. Students are to prepare a program
called Jesus Christ – This is Your Life, which requires students to
conduct first-hand interviews with various people who will provide a
well-rounded interview of Jesus’ life and mission.
Students use the internet to search the art galleries around the world for famous artwork that tell stories of Jesus. Students read pgs 35-36 and choose a Gospel story to create own artistic image of Jesus as the Son of God (pg35)
Students read pg37-40 and complete Learning Activity 16, which gets
students to identify each of the miracles performed by Jesus.
Share findings as a class. / Learning Activity 15: Jesus Christ --This is Your Life
Digital Cameras
Catholic Catechism:
‘TO KNOW WORSHIP AND LOVE’ STUDENT BOOK
Come Follow Me
Pgs 35-36 (copy for reading)
Come Follow Me
Pgs 37-40 (copy for reading)
Learning Activity 16: Miracles of
Jesus / Using Come Follow Me Pgs 27-28 (copy for reading)& Bible Complete Learning Activity 14: Who is Jesus?
Due next lesson (Wed)
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/ STRATEGIES / RESOURCES / Homework & ASSESSMENT7 / Chapter Six: Jesus formed God’s special family as a community.
Students read pg41-46 and then complete Learning Activity 19. This activity requires students to explore each sacrament and then match examples
of the gifts offered through each sacrament.
Answer questions from ‘In Class Work’ on pg 43 in books
Students complete Learning Activity 20 by reading pg 47-50. This activity requires students to trace the early Christian leaders to the Catholic Church of today. / Come Follow Me
Pgs 41-50 (copy for reading)
Learning Activity 19: Special
community celebrations
instituted by Jesus
Learning Activity 20: Tracing the
early Christian leaders to the Catholic Church of today / Introduce Assessment 2
Complete ‘In Class Work’ questions @ home
8 / Chapter Seven: How do people come to know God?
Students complete Learning Activity 21, which requires students to examine relationships with significant people in their daily lives.
Students then read pg 51-56 and complete ‘In class work’ pg 54
Students then complete Learning Activity 22 which gets students to explore the Holy Trinity through a variety of symbols.
Students re-read about the Apostles’ Creed on pg 56. Teachers then divide students into 16 groups, allocating each a verse (as outlined in the Apostles’ Creed chart). The task of individual groups is to artistically portray the central teaching/s of Jesus in their assigned verse. Each group then displays their
artwork around the class in sequential order. Students are then taken on a guided picture gallery tour where, as a group, they recite the Apostles’ Creed and view the accompanying artwork. / Learning Activity 21: Window
into relationships
Come Follow Me
Pgs 51-56 (copy for reading)
Learning Activity 22: The Holy
Trinity
9 / Chapter Eight: Lent – a special time of personal growth in following Jesus.
Students read pg 57-58 and complete Journal activity 1.
Students complete Learning Activity 23. This activity requires students to reflectively read the Gospels of Matthew 4:1–11 and Luke 4:1–13 and then answer the assigned questions as honestly as possible.
Students complete Learning Activity 24. This activity requires the students to note the significant events in Holy Week in relation to the Gospel of Luke. / Come Follow Me
Pgs 57-63 (copy for reading)
Learning Activity 23: Taking the
time to change
Matthew 4:1–11, Luke 4:1–13
Learning Activity 24: Significant
events in Holy Week according to the Gospel of Luke / Assessment 2 Due
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/ STRATEGIES / RESOURCES / Homework & ASSESSMENT10 / Summary of Unit 8.1
Review of Unit Students revise the key learning points of the Unit
Semester One Assessment
OUTCOME ONE: Students understand that people come to discover God through Creations.
OUTCOME FOCUS
DG 2.2: Students understand that people belong to groups called communities. They identify the communities to which they belong and how these communities reflect God’s love and goodness.
DG 3.2: Students explore the lives of people who use their gifts to demonstrate how to live in a way that reflects God. They are aware of linkages between living in a way that reflects God and meeting the needs of others in communities.
DG 4.2: Students recognise common questions and yearnings that people have as a result of human and natural interactions. In doing so they are able to make simple generalisations about the search for meaning that is common amongst people. Students explore how different questions and yearnings point to people’s desire to change the world so that it reflects the goodness of God.
OUTCOME FIVE: Students demonstrate the skills necessary in order to read and apply Scripture to life and to participate in Catholic ritual and prayer.
OUTCOME FOCUS
CP 2.1: Students identify examples of what it means to live as a Christian. They recognise the importance of learning from the Gospels about how Jesus lived his life. They provide examples of how people can demonstrate that they are following the example of Jesus.
CP 3.1: Students identify and discuss some relationships between the stories and events in the Bible and how people today are called to live their lives. Students explain simple symbolic meanings and identify language structures and conventions characteristic of the Bible.
CP 4.1: Students select, use and reflect on different scriptural texts to generalise about the links between these texts and the lessons they teach about how Christians today can live their lives.
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Created by Melissa Weatherley 2008