The Nation’s Leading Religion Series Just Got Better!
The new Teacher’s Manuals feature daily lesson plans in a wrap-around format. In a large (9″”x12″”) page layout, the new manuals facilitate speedy references and are perfectly coordinated with the student texts, outlining an entire school year of plans for lessons, games, songs, and activities. The new Teacher’s Manuals also include:
Lesson overviews with Scripture and Catechism references
Easy-to-follow directions for classroom activities for each lesson
Complete lesson plans with options for five day presentations with suggestions for one day presentations
Prayer experiences for each lesson
Practical suggestions for using art, photographs, music and questions as teaching tools.
References to supporting materials and resources now found in an appendix at the back of the Teacher’s Manuals
“”Culture boxes””, which contain additional information for catechists, such as chalk talk diagrams, short biographies of saints, and other useful reference material
Student text pages are now included within the Teacher’s Manuals for easy reference for the catechist
Answer keys for activities and quizzes
Blackline masters of quizzes and unit tests
THEME: The history of the Church–its founding by Christ, its birth in the Holy Spirit, the marks of the one, true Church, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the saints and the role of the religious and laity up to the present. The structure of the Church Jesus planned, the role of the Magisterium, the clergy, the religious and the laity and our own vocations.
SEQUENCE: Part 1: The Church. Christ’s plan for the Church’s structure and its necessary attributes; the Church’s teaching authority. The early Church: Martyrs, Fathers, Saints and Mary.
Part 2: The Christian in the World. Religious and laity, Holy Orders, Marriage, and family life; call to holiness.
Part 3: The Last Things. Death, Judgment, the end of the world.
AIM: To help the teenager know and love the Church as Christ’s Body and the Magisterium as the sure voice of Jesus, so that the young person may be strengthened through his life in the Church to face the confusion and secularism of modern-day society.
