NINTH GRADE RELIGION
UNDERSTANDING CATHOLICISM
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3/20/08 Thursday -Easter Vacation -
Monday 3/31/08 Class Resumes
3/19/08 Wednesday Day 3
C Schedule, Early Dismissal
3/18/08 Tuesday Day 2
Complete Chapter 6 Assessment Test
3/17/08 Monday Day 1 No Class
3/14/08 Friday Day 6
Review Questions, p 162
Begin Chapter 6 Assessment Test, open book
3/13/08 Thursday Day 5
Answer Review Questions 1-3, p 162
3/12/08 Wednesday Day 4
Read text, "The Spirit in the Church Through History"
p 153-165
3/11/08 Tuesday Day 3
Quiz on review questions p 153
3/10/08 Monday Day 2
Go over answers from Friday, quiz next class
3/07/08 Friday Day 1 No class
3/06/08 Thursday Day 6
Within the Catholic church-States in Life, p 150-153
-the laity (lay people)
-religious
-ordained clergy- priests, deacon, and bishops
Answer Questions for Review 1-10, p 153
3/05/08 Wednesday Day 5
Beyond Christianity, p 149-150
-other religions: Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Confucians, Shintoists, native and/or tribal religions
God is revealed, though imperfectly in religions other than Christianity
-aspects of God's truth, moral concerns and principles are shared by many of world religions
-Catholics believe that the fullest revelation of God's truth has been given to humankind in Jesus Christ
-Catholic belief that others can be saved is rooted in the belief that Christ died for all
Student-generated Discussion: What is needed to be saved? How can a good God allow bad things to happen?
3/04/08 Tuesday Day 4
Read text The Splits in Christianity, p 149
-the Body of Christ is fragmented
-a variety of Christian denominations exist today
-over the centuries many groups branched off from the Catholic church main trunk
-Catholicism traces its history back through an unbroken succession of bishops to the Apostles
-Catholics are led by the pope, the bishop of Rome
-splits occurred for many reasons:
-disputes over rituals
-differences in beliefs
-political or military conflict
-personal power struggles
-hurts or misunderstandings
-Christian churches today include:
-Roman Catholics
-Orthodox Christians
-Protestant Christians
-more unites than divides the churches
-ECUMENISM is the movement of working together toward unity of all the various Christian churches
-Jesus prayed for unity of all his followers
3/03/08 Monday Day 3
Read text p 145-148
Church as an Institution has different levels:
-groups of Christians gathered for litugy=the liturgical assembly
-the parish
-the local diocese
-the worldwide church
Images of the Church:
-the People of God
-the Body of christ
-the Temple of the Holy Spirit
Discussion: What religion do you practice? What denomination of Christianity is your place of worship?
2/29/08 Friday Day 2
Quiz on Ch 6 to p 141
Read text, p 142-145 "What is the Church?"
-the early church is the root and the foundation of the church we experience today
-The Christian Church s the gathering of those who profess belief in jesus Christ and are baptized into that faith
-the church is the active presence of Jesus in the world,carrying on Christ's missi9n through the power of the Holy Spirit
-Jesus' mission was to proclaim and bring about the kingdom of God through his lif deah anfd resurrection
-the church exists as an institution to:
-be a beacon of light and hope & source of healing for the world
-give its members comfort and support
-educate them
-help them lead holy lives
( -Mary, as mother of Jesus, is also Mother of the Church
-Mary did not die but was "assumed" into heaven )
2/28/07 Thursday Day 1 No class
2/27/08 Wednesday Day 6
Read & Hi-lite text p 137-140
Answer Review Questions p 141
2/26/08 Tuesday Day 5
Read & Hi-lite text p 135-137
-The presence of the Risen Jesus gave the disciples the deepest sense of joy and peace.
-Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit after he returned to the Father
-Holy spirit will teach everything, dwell among them forever
-The Book of the Acts of the Apostles was an account of the early church written by the evangelist Luke
-The Ascension (based on the word 'ascend" -to go up
Jesus' return to the Father, celebrated by Catholics 40 days after Easter
-Heaven is more than a place "up there"--it is a state of being in the presence of God who exists everywhere
-In heaven Jesus i no longer tied to time or space, he is freed from the limitations of earthly existence--freed to be everywhere, with everyone, for all time
-Pentecost is the coming of the Holy Spirit on earth
-Christians celebrate the feast 50 days after Easter
-Pentecost is called the birthday of the Church
-the Holy Spirit gave the Apostles confidence, clear vision and the ability to speak in foreign languages
-Holy spirit completely transformed the disciples
-Powerful images oof the Holy Spirit include:
rush of mighty wind
tongues of fire
ability to speak in strange languages
-The new Church community devoted themselves to teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayers
-The Way- an early name for Christianity
-movement spread to the Gentiles - non-Jews
-First called Christians in the city of Antioch
-Council of Jerusalem - opened the door for Gentiles to join, without first having to become Jewish
-Paul is known as the apostle to the Gentiles, he spread christianity around the Mediterranean world by establishing new churches in Corinth, Ephesus,
& Phillipi - he wrote letters to tach and instruct that became the earliest writings of the New Testament
The Separation from Judaism-
-as Gentiles joined Jewish Christians, the rift between the groups grew - after Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD and all the Jews were scattered - Christians were no longer allowed to worship in the synagogues
2/25/08 Monday Day 4
Introduction to Chapter 6, Text p 135
Copy Chapter 6 Outline
Mid-Winter Break
2/15/08 Friday Day 3
Chapter 5 Assessment
2/14/08 Thursday Day 2
Read Text to p 132, Review Questions
2/13/08 Wednesday Day 1 No class
2/12/08 Tuesday Day 6
Quiz on Review Questions p 127
read text "Paschal Mystery" p 128-130
2/11/08 Monday Day 5
Read Text, Evidence for the Resurrection, 125-127
Review Questions 1-4, p 127
2/08/08 Friday Day 4
Read text "The Resurrection of Jesus" p 121
"The Appearances of Jesus" p 122-124
2/07/08 Thursday Day 3
Quiz on text p 115-119 & Review Questions
2/06/08 Wednesday Day 2
Read text p 118 - 120
Nailed to the Cross
-Golgotha
-Good Friday
Answer Question for Review 1-5, p 120
Finish for homework
2/05/08 Tuesday Day 1 No Class
2/04/08 Monday Day 6
Read text p 115
Accepting Death on a Cross
-Garden of Gethsemane
-high priest
-blasphemy
-Pontius Pilate
Who Killed Jesus - deicide - anti-semitism
The Hurt of Ridicule
2/1/08 Friday Day 5
Quiz on p 111-114 & Review Questions
1/31/08 Thursday Day 4
Copy notes (hi-lighted text)into notebook
-Last Supper, Holy Thusday
-Palm Sunday (Passion Sunday)
-chief priestsPassover Meal/ seder
Answer Question for Review 1-3, p 114
1/30/08 Wednesday Day 3
Read text p 111-114
Hand-out, Chapter 5 Major Concepts
1/29/08 Tuesday Day 2
Intro to Chapter 5 "Jesus and the Paschal Mystery: Finding Life Through Death"
Review of class rules
Copy chapter overview, p 111
-the Last supper
-accepting death on the cross
-the resurrection of Jesus
-what does resurrection mean for us?
Jesus with us today
1. According to the Catholic Christian vision, why are you here on earth? We are here because God calls us into being out of love for us. We are created by God to live in union with God in this life and forever.
2. List the “givens” in a person’s life. Chromosomes, intellect, emotions, family, neighborhood, race, culture, religion, economic class.
3. What is identity? Identity is the person you have become at any point in time as a result of choosing what to do with what you have been given.
4. What is adolescence? Adolescence is that period in our development when we move from being a child to being an adult.
5. When does adolescence begin and end? Adolescence begins with the physical event of puberty and ends with gaining social status as an adult.
6. What areas of our lives undergo dramatic changes during adolescence? Physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual.
7. How are your emotional changes related to the physical changes? The physical changes are directly related to the emotional.
8. Why do our attitudes about faith and religion change? Many of our attitudes change as a result of our increasing intellectual ability.
9. When does puberty begin? Puberty is difficult for everyone. Some begin puberty as early as 9 or 10 for some, and as late as 15 or 16 for others.
10. What does our intelligence enable us to do? Our intelligence enables us to seek out and grasp the truth.
11. What do our emotions enable us to do? Our emotions enable us to feel and to identify with the feelings of others, to dream, to interact socially with others.
12. What do we mean when we say that people are relational beings? We mean that human being exist in community; it is part of our nature to reach out and form relationships with others.
13. What are the three crucial tasks of Adolescence? Three crucial tasks of adolescence are 1. to develop the capacity for friendship; 2. to develop a healthy sexual identity; 3. to develop a more mature parent-child relationship
14. What kinds of longings are felt intensely during adolescence? Longings for deeper friendships, independence, our sexuality, endless questions about life, God or religion.
15. What kinds of life experiences bring loss and pain? Friendships that end, divorce, unmet goals, alcoholism, drug addiction, disease.
16. What are the qualities and skills of friendship? Some of the skills and qualities of friendship are: that you are your own best friend; a friend wants the best for others; friendship takes work; friends talk with the heart; friendship requires trust; friends forgive; friends give each other freedom, are not controlling or possessive; friendship builds more friendship.
17. In what special way did God create us? We were created by God with a built in longing for happiness so that we might be moved to search for true happiness and ultimately find it.
18. If our emptiness and longings are not meant to cause us despair, how should we understand them? Our longings may be seen as the spaciousness we need to help us discover that what truly fulfills us is also what God desires for us.
19. What are some of society' answers to life's longings? 1. Popularity 2. Consumerism 3. Individualism 4. Immediate Gratification
5. Sexual Permissiveness 6. Technological Fixes
20. Popularity tempts us to believe that if we can just fit in and win everyone else's approval the big ache in us will be healed.
21. Consumerism, a form of materialism, is the attitude that acquiring unlimited material possessions is the key to fulfillment.
22. Individualism is the value of going it alone, looking out for oneself, and developing one's personal potentials to the fullest. In itself, individualism is a positive value, but when carried to extremes, as it often is in American society, it is very easy to lose a sense of responsibility to others and solidarity with the larger community.
23. Immediate gratification is based on the conviction that "if it feels good, does it." Suffering is viewed as an evil, even if suffering is done out of care and concern for loved ones. Immediate gratification causes us to want to immediately block out any pain or loneliness in life by any means available—alcohol, drugs, buying more things. Immediate gratification is a selfish value that expects our needs to be met right now—not delayed for some perceived future good. It is a vice that causes us to lose patience with life and with our relationships.
24. Sexual Permissiveness is the mistaken belief that loneliness and longing will go away if we just find sexual satisfaction—an extremely prevalent notion today. Sexual Permissiveness is often an "umbrella" type answer that carries with it promises of fulfillment in other areas of longing, including popularity, self-fulfillment and immediate gratification of one's desires. Sex is often presented by the media as just one more consumer good to be acquired and used for one's entertainment. However, without the willingness or readiness to take on the responsibilities that accompany sexual activity, sexual permissiveness drains the meaning and purpose from our sexual relationships.
25. Technological Fixes is based on the belief that progress and technological development will take care of all our problems. The reliance on technology relieves us of responsibility for the consequences of our acts, because there will always be a technological fix to correct our mistakes.
26. What intellectual development occurs during adolescence? During adolescence people become intellectually capable of evaluating and criticizing everything they took for granted as children.
27. What do we mean by "effective criticism?" Being critical is not simply a matter of finding fault with something we dislike, but of examining and questioning something we have learned from others. In the process we may find that our previous understanding is based on false assumptions and needs to be updated.
28. Why is "effective criticism" a necessary life skill? The need to be critical goes beyond reassessing our past. We need to be able to constructively analyze all of the messages about happiness and fulfillment that constantly bombard us. Television, videos, the internet, ads, music, magazines and computer games all are powerful message carriers and are often linked with consumer products. A maturing adolescent exercises critical intelligence and chooses from among society's offerings for those goods that will truly satisfy one's needs and longings.
29. What is involved in "effective criticism"? Reflection, careful thought and meditation as well as an ability to take a longer view of one's life are ways to exercise one's ability to critically evaluate one's life choices. Questioning, seeking out advice from others and looking deeper into things are also part of effective criticism.
30. What are some questions many people begin to ask during adolescence?
• Is there something deeper than the answers society offers?
• Why am I here? What is the purpose of my life? What will help me make sense of my life?
• What will really fill this longing in me?
• Is there something beyond what I see? Is there a God? If so, does that God care for me?
• If God exists why is the world so full of hate, suffering and misery?
31. Who was St. Augustine? Augustine was a young man from northern Africa who was studying in Italy and getting into all kinds of trouble. He later re-examined his life and became a Christian, a bishop and, after his death, a saint. A Doctor of the Church, Augustine is considered one of the greatest thinkers and leaders in the history of Christianity. He wrote, "You have made us for yourself alone, and our heart is restless, until it rests in you."
Chapter 2 Responding to God's Invitation Text p 33
1. What is a worldview? Our world view is the way we see the world around us and experience all reality. Our world view influences whether we experience life as an unending series of difficulties and disappointments or as challenges and opportunities.
2. How do we get a worldview? Our worldview may partly result from how we were raised in a certain family and culture. Our relationships with other people and our particular experiences have a great deal to do with how we view life. Our world view is also influenced by our personality and temperament, and all of our accumulated choices made over our lifetime.
3. What is involved in our worldview? Worldview is a matter of the heart and the head. It is an expression not only of our thoughts and beliefs about life and the world (head issues), but also of our feelings and attitudes about life and the world (heart issues).
4. Why are we so limited as human beings in what we can say about God? We are limited in what we can say about God because the mystery of God is immensely beyond us. We must speak of God with a great deal of humility and realize that our descriptions of God and how God works and relates to us are never going to capture all that God is.
5. When we speak about God, why do we use metaphors? Metaphors are means of expression that ty to describe, by comparison with something else, a trait or characteristic of a person or a thing. The metaphor tells us something important about the character of this thing, but it can never tell us everything about it. It always falls short. The same is true of our descriptions of God.
6. What are some metaphors we use to describe God? Some metaphors we might use about God include, but are not limited to, are God as father or mother, as supreme being, as ruler or majesty, a living bread, as ocean—to compare God with what we know from our human experience.
7. What is faith? The process of putting faith in God is like the process of putting faith in a human being. It involves both trust and belief, matters of the heart and matters of the head.
8. What is involved in trust? Trust is a matter of the heart—a whole movement toward God, an awareness of God's love and a sharing of ones thoughts and feelings with God. It involves being able to depend on God when in trouble, and having a sense that God will always be there even when times are tough and it isn't always clear how things will turn out.
9. What do we mean by belief? Belief is a matter of the head, concerning our convictions about God. Our beliefs or convictions about anyone involve our certitude that the other does not say one thing and do something else, or behave one way toward us one day and another way with others or behind our backs. It is a confidence that the other is true to themselves as well as with us.
10. What is faith in God? Faith in God is trusting in God and holding beliefs or convictions about God.
11. What is the Catholic Christian understanding of faith? The Catholic Christian understanding about faith is that we are created by God with a built-in desire for God which we may experience as a restlessness or a searching.
12. How does God deal with our searching? God does not abandon us in our restless searching, allowing us to wander aimlessly in life on our own. God is constantly trying to reach us, to get through to us, to reveal something of his own self to us. God is always moving among us and inviting us into life with God.
13. What is the term we use to describe God's self-disclosure to human beings? Revelation.
14. How do we respond to God's invitation? Because God longs for a response from each of us, he pours out help—grace—to enable us to respond.
15. How is God's invitation involved with our free will? Nothing or no one can make us believe, not our parents or teachers or anyone else, not even God's own grace. The response of genuine faith is a free act of giving of our trust and belief to God. It cannot be forced, coerced or bought.
16. Does God ever give up trying to reach us? God never gives up on us. His is a lifetime offer of salvation and life with him.
17. Is faith a one-time decision? Faith is a response that is given throughout a person's lifetime. Faith is a million and one decisions made daily throughout life.
18. What are some mistaken responses to the mystery of suffering and tragedy in life? Sometimes people say "it must have been God's will," or "God wanted to take the person home to heaven" or "God wanted to teach us a lesson." These answers are completely inadequate and fail to satisfy us. In fact, we simply do not know why there is suffering and tragedy in life.
19. How should we respond in faith to those times in life when we do not seem to have all the answers—and the ones we do have fail to satisfy? The Christian response to the mystery of tragedy and suffering in our lives in to deepen trust in God, to hang in there amd keep believing that goodness can eventually come forth from suffering and that God' grace is given us when we suffer and when we grieve.
20. What is the first question we must ask when we are trying to come to a knowledge of God? Does God exist at all? How do we know?
21. What are some typical answers to the question of whether God exists?
• Of course God exists, that's just the way it is. You have to take it on faith.
• I have always believed.
• I don't believe in what I don't see, and I don't see God.
• The universe is a random accident, and not a creation by God.
22. What are some signs of God's presence?
• In the convictions of persons who care for us
• In human reason —from experience with the natural world
—from experience of ourselves as human persons
• In universal belief throughout history
• In the experience of being loved
23. Why do we need revelation? Human beings have a built-in desire for God and a capacity to believe in God, although not all people are believers. We must rely on God's self-disclosure for Go to reveal to us what we could never discover on our own. Our reasoning abilities can take us only so far, then God must do the rest.
24. What is revelation? Revelation is the self-communication or self-disclosure of God in which Sacred Mystery is made known by God to human beings. Revelation is based on the belief that God created people in order to enter into a personal intimate relationship with them, a relationship in which both God and humans fully reveal themselves to each other.
25. What does the concept of revelation imply? Revelation implies a God who loves and cares for us enough to take the initiative in forming a relationship with us, top become one with us in our history, constantly disclosing sacred mystery to us. Revelation implies that God longs to have a deep intimate relationship with us.
26. How is God revealed? Besides all the natural signs of God's existence, God's revelation has been experienced throughout history in four other ways:
• Within individual experience
• Through events of history
• Within sacred writings or scriptures
• Through religious teachings and statements of faith (doctrines).
27. What is religious practice? Religious practices are attempts by people throughout history to communicate their shared faith through outward signs —including symbols, celebrations, statements of belief, and codes of behavior.
28. Are faith and religious practice the same thing? Faith and religious practice are not the same thing, but they need each other. Faith that goes unexpressed by gestures or words eventually drifts off because it does not seem real or concrete anymore. On the other hand, religious practices that are not genuine expressions of one's faith have no basis and will eventually become meaningless, empty, boring and hypocritical.
29. Is there a crisis of faith? Recent surveys demonstrate that 95% of teenagers in this country believe in God and and about 74% pray at least occasionally. However, many teenagers and their parents are not satisfied with the ways their religious faith is expressed and may be turned of by religious practices. Therefore it is more a crisis of practice than of faith.
30. Is expressing one's faith easy? Expressing our deepest feelings about God clearly and comfortably is extremely hard work and can sometimes seem nearly impossible.
31. Can the crisis of practice lead to a crisis in faith? Dissatisfaction with religious practice can sometimes lead to a crisis of faith because a person may easily confuse their lack of satisfaction in practice to be a lack of conviction and belief.
32. Why is it important to belong to a community of believers? All of us, especially teenagers, need to be with and celebrate with other people of deep and genuine faith—both adults and other teens—if they are to embrace their religion enthusiastically.
33. What issues confront us in the challenge of responding to God in faith?
• The decision of whether or not to believe and trust in God
• how to live out that relationship with God in our life
34. In choosing to practice a certain religious tradition, are we to assume that all religions are the same, or that what one believes makes no difference? Is one religion as good as another? While most religions are sincere in their convictions of their own truth and have valuable insights into the mystery of God and his relationship with human beings, and are worthy of our respect and study, Christians believe that God has revealed the fullest depth of divine mystery in Jesus Christ.
35. What is Catholic teaching regarding other religions? The Catholic Church recognizes the human right to religious freedom and rejects nothing of what is true and holy in non-Christian religions.
Chapter 3 Judaism: Discovering Our Religious Roots p 59
1. What happens to the human response of faith over a lifetime? The human response of faith usually grows and becomes more mature over a lifetime.
2. How is the bond between God and a person like a marriage bond? The bond uniting God and a person is like a marriage bond in that it is a covenant relationship that unites the couple through all the ups and downs of life, but the difference is that God never fails his partner, God is always faithful, even when the person lets God down.
3. What is a covenant relationship? A covenant relationship is one in which the partners have made a solemn contract or promise before God to uphold the terms of the agreement. For instance, a marriage covenant is a pledge between a husband and a wife that they will love each other in good times and bad for life. Our covenant with God involves our promise to keep the 10 commandments in return for God's unending love and support and guarantee of eternal life. God is faithful to his promise even when we fail to keep his commandments.
4. In the Catholic tradition, what is the nature of the relationship between God and a person? Catholic Christianity says that God reaches out to all creation and desires to enter into a loving relationship with human beings as a community and not just as individuals. To reach all humanity God chose to have a special bond or covenant relationship with one group of people as a people, acting in the midst of their history, so that through them, all human beings might come to know and love God.
5. Who are the special people that God chose for this special covenant relationship throughout their history? The Jews were chosen by God at a particular time in history to carry God's promise of faithful love to all people. God continues to have a special relationship with the Jews because Jesus, the Second Person of the Holy Trinity of God was incarnated and entered human history as a Jew.
6. Why is it important for Christians to understand the history of the relationship between God and the Jews? Because Christian recognize Jesus as the one sent by God as savior of mankind, and that Jesus was a Jew born in the land of the Jews, Jews and Christians share a special heritage. We cannot understand Christianity without getting inside the head and heart of Jesus, and to do that we must understand his Jewish roots. We have a need for a sense of the past.
7. Why do we need a sense of the past? Without a sense of the past our present life would be filled with confusion and loneliness. We need to know where we came form in order to recognize who we are. A family needs some sense of its past to understand who it is in the present.
8. How does the history of the Jews transcend simple history? We are dealing with more than a series of historical events involving certain people on clearly defined dates. We are exploring salvation history, the story of God's action and revelation among a people throughout their history. The story revolves around the Covenant that God made with the Jews, the promise to be faithful to them and to bring salvation to the whole world through them as a people.
9. When is this covenant made between God and the Jews? According to the Hebrew Scriptures of the Bible, that is the Old Testament, God first made this special covenant, or promise, with Abraham of Ur in Mesopotamia.
10. Who was Abraham? Abraham was a shepherd, a wandering nomad of no special standing in his home country.
11. What was the special promise that God made to Abraham? The Promise that God made to Abraham was that from his descendants would come a great nation, and that all the people of the earth would be blessed through him. Abraham was asked to go to a new land— the Promised Land— that God would show him, and there his descendants would become more numerous than stars in sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Abraham trusted God and went with God to this new land with his family.
12. Was that all there was to it? No, this relationship with Abraham and God was just the beginning of the Covenant which God would renew many times down through the ages with Abraham descendants.
13. Was there any physical contract that people could see? God gave Abraham a special sign of the covenant that would show the people's commitment to their promise to trust God, the circumcision of their male children.
14. What was so special about this commitment? For the first time in history a group of people, the descendents of Abraham, pledged themselves to worship only one God, in contrast to the surrounding cultures which all worshipped many gods.
15. What is the word for "worshipping only one God"? Monotheism
16. Is there a word that means "worshipping many gods"? Yes, it is polytheism.
17. Who was in Abraham's family? Abraham's wife was named Sarah. They had a son named Isaac. Isaac married Rebekah, and they had a son named Jacob, also called Israel. Jacob gave this special name to all his descendants who were called "Israelites."
18. How did Jacob get this special name? Jacob once wrestled with a mysterious being in the night and because he did not give up, the being, believed to be an angel, gave him the title "Israel," which in Hebrew means "one who has contended with divine and human beings, and prevailed."
19. How do the Israelites late become known as the Jews? Over the centuries, the Israelites built a nation, which was later divided into two separate countries, one in the northern territory of the Promised Land called Israel, and on in the southern territory, called "Judah" after one of the sons of Jacob. For while they were called "Judahites" which was later shortened to "Jews."
20. Who is the "Father of Faith"? Abraham is known as the Father in Faith.
21. Who are the patriarchs? Abraham and his son Isaac and grandson Jacob are called the patriarchs. Jacob's son Joseph is also considered one of the patriarchs because Joseph receives the special blessing that carries responsibility for the promise from Jacob.
22. Who are the matriarchs? The matriarchs are the wives of the patriarchs: Sarah, Rebekah, and Rachel. Joseph's wife is not included because she was Egyptian.
23. Why was Joseph's wife Egyptian? It's a long story, but one of the most interesting of the Old Testament. Jacob had ten sons, and Joseph was the youngest, his father's favorite. Jacob made Joseph a special coat with sleeves and was of many colors. This made his older brothers so jealous they conspired to kill him, but finally agreed to sell him to some slave traders who took Joseph for sale in Egypt. Ironically, in Egypt Joseph also became the favorite of his owners who gave him important jobs which eventually brought him to the notice of the Pharaoh, or King of Egypt. Joseph's many talents and humility—and ability to interpret dreams—so impressed the king that when a famine threatened the country, Pharaoh put Joseph in charge of agriculture and commerce. He also gave him the daughter of a prominent Egyptian priest to be his wife.
24. What else happened? In a story with many plot twists and cases of mistaken identity, Joseph's bothers and father Jacob are invited by Pharaoh to move into Egypt and settle in the land of Goshen in the delta region to escape the famine. The Israelites, or "sons of Israel" as they are called, settle and over the next several generations become very numerous, successful and prosperous. However, eventually, the country's policies towards immigrant change and the Israelites are singled out oppressively for forced labor producing bricks for a new Pharaoh's building projects.
25. Do the Israelites remain slaves in Egypt? When the Egyptians begin a program of genocide against the Israelites, who they call "Hebrews" or "wanders," God raises up a leader for Israel to save them from extermination in Egypt.
26. Who was this extraordinary leader who saves the Israelites from slavery in Egypt? Moses was the son of Hebrew (Israelite) slaves who try to save him from death by floating him on the Nile River in a water-proofed wicker basket. Pharaoh's daughter discovers him and adopts him as her own.
27. Does Moses know he is really an Israelite? As an infant Moses is given back to his mother to nurse him until he is old enough to be raised in court (that is, until he is about three or four years old). So Moses knows he is of humble origin but he is raised as a prince.
28. So how does Moses save his people? Moses eventually becomes indignant at the cruelty of the Egyptian task masters and in defense of a slave, kills a slave driver one day. Moses flees into exile, becomes a shepherd in Midian, marries and would have lived happily ever after, except that one day while tending his sheep out in the desert cones across a burning bush—it's on fire, but doesn't really burn up. When Moses goes to get a closer look at this amazing sight, God speaks to him from within the burning bush and asks him to go back to Egypt and demand that Pharaoh let God's people go.
29. Does Moses go? Moses at first argues that he is no match for Pharaoh, but God insists and gives Moses special powers to convince him. Moses meets up with his long lost brother Aaron on the way, and together they go to Pharaoh and demand that he let the Israelites go to worship their God in the desert. The Pharaoh refuses, and there follows a great contest of will and power between God and Pharaoh. God sends 10 plagues—drinking water turns to blood, frogs, flies, boils on cattle and people, grasshoppers, hail, darkness over the land at noon, and finally death of Egyptian firstborn sons—before Pharaoh finally lets them go.
30. What is Passover? On the night before the "Exodus" or "Leaving" the Israelites the Israelites are instructed to kill a lamb and smear its blood over their doors as a sign to the angel of death not to enter the house. The next morning Pharaoh begs Moses to take the people and go, and Moses leads the people out across the land to the Red Sea, which parts allowing the Israelites to cross over on dry land. Howeer, Pharaoh changes his mind and sends his army after them. The sea closes in on them and all Pharaoh's chariots and charioteers are drowned.
31. Do Jews still celebrate this event today? Yes, the Jews celebrate the great event of the Exodus during the Feast of Passover. They eat a special meal called a seder, which consists of unleavened bread, bitter herbs and roast lamb.
32. How is Passover important to Christians? Passover is important to Christians because on the night before he did, Jesus was celebrating Passover with his disciples at a seder we call "The Last Supper."
33. What is the Sinai Covenant? When Moses led the people into the desert they came to Mount Sinai. God appeared to Moses and the people there and gave them rules to govern themselves as a nation, called the Ten Commandment. God told the people that if they kept the commandments he would be their God and they would be his people. He asked if they agreed and all the people did.
34. What are the Ten Commandments? See page 69 Copy them
35. What is the Mosaic Law? The Ten Commandments and law derived from them, believed to have been given to Moses orally by God are known as the Mosaic Law, or the Torah. It is found now in the first five books of the Old Testament. At Mt. Sinai God inscribed the Ten Commandments on stone tablets so that all the escaped Israelites might see them.
36. How long were the Israelites in the desert before they reached the Promised Land? The Israelites wandered forty years in the desert because they could not trust God enough to safely bring them in against the Canaanites—the original inhabitants of the land.
37. Did Moses get to go tot the Promised Land? No Moses was only allowed to see it from a lookout point. Moses and his whole generation died in the desert, except for Joshua who was his successor. Joshua led the people into Canaan—the Promised Land.
38. Did the Israelites take over Canaan right away? It took the Israelites over 200 hundred years to gain a significant foothold in the land of Canaan. We call this time the period of the Judges.
39. Who were the Judges? The Judges were war chiefs who were raised up by God from among the people during times of crisis—when the Canaanites seemed about to overrun the Israelites. The Israelites understood that their hold on the land was subject to their faithfulness to God and the Covenant, so when the people fell away into idol worship, the Canaanites began to attack them. The Judges delivered the Israelites from their enemies and remained their leaders for their lifetimes only. Everyone in Israel did as they pleased, because there was no king in Israel except God.
40. Who was David? The Israelites began to pray that God would let them have a king like other nations, so that they could secure their country's position. The first king, Saul, was very successful militarily, but he displeased God because he was not faithful to him and mentally was very unstable. David was a young shepherd boy whose ability to play the harp was soothing to Saul, and so he was brought into his camp during a war against the Philistines in order to calm Saul's nerves. In a contest against the giant Goliath, David won by one shot between the eyes and became a hero. David was made general of Saul's army and became extremely successful securing Israel's borders against the Philistines and Canaanites. He was wildly popular with the people. Unknown to Saul, David had received God's blessing to be the next king of Israel. Saul was very jealous of David's popularity and tried many times to have David killed. But David loved Saul and was loyal to him through out his lifetime. After Saul was killed in battle, David became Israel's greatest king. All future kings would be compared to David.
41. Why was David Israel's greatest king? David was great not only because of his great military and political success, but primarily because of his great love and loyalty to God. He is celebrated as "a man after God's own heart." David brought the Ark containing the tablets of the Ten Commandments to his capital in Jerusalem and vowed to build God a great temple. In return for his great love, god promised David that his dynasty would last forever.
42. How is this promise interpreted by Jews and Christians? Jews understand this to mean that the only legitimate heir to the throne of Israel is a descendant of David, and that this person is a Messiah, or Savior of Israel. Christians understand this promise as a prophecy that refers to the Jesus Christ, a descendent of David's, who is the Messiah of all the world. His throne lasts forever because he is the son of God.
43. Does David build a temple for God? No, God refuses to allow David to build him a temple; God prefers to remain in the Tent of Meeting still in use since the days of the Exodus. However, David begins to save up for its expense, and his son Solomon, the next king of Israel builds God a magnificent temple in Jerusalem.
44. Does the kingdom last forever as promised to David? No, as a result of David's sins, God allows the kingdom to be broken up among his grandsons; a unified Israel never again exists until modern times.
45. What happens to the kingdom? One grandson sets up a rival throne and temple in the north called the Kingdom of Israel, and another grandson remains in Jerusalem as king of the southern Kingdom of Judah.
46. Who were the prophets? In both Israel and Judah prophets, or spokespersons for God, emerged who questioned the injustices of the wicked kings and tried to call the people back to faithful relationship with God. The prophets jarred the people's conscience and called them back to an awareness of God's vision for life.
47. What was the role of the prophets? The role of the prophets was not simply to predict the future, but to be critics of their society and interpret events from God's point of view, no matter how angry it made the kings or the people in power.
48. What were the names of some of the prophets? Elijah, Hosea, Micah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel.
49. What happened to the Northern Kingdom? The northern Kingdom of Israel with its capita at Samaria fell to the huge Mesopotamian empire of the Assyrians in 722 B.C. The Israelite citizens of the north were dispersed throughout the Assyrian Empire and never returned to their homeland. They are sometimes referred to as the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
50. What is the Diaspora? The settling of the Jews outside their homeland is called the Diaspora. There would be several major forced dispersions of the Jews out of the Promised Land over the centuries.
51. What happened to the southern Kingdom of Judah? In 587 B.C. its capital of Jerusalem was besieged and destroyed by the Babylonian Empire which was conquering the whole region. The people of Judah were forced to march 600 miles north into exile in Babylon. The Judahites lost everything.
52. What effect did the Babylonian Exile have on the Judahites? The experience of the Exile was the most crushing blow the Judahites could have imagined. The seemingly invincible City of Zion, site of Solomon's Temple, God's own Footstool on Earth was destroyed, all its riches, golden sacred equipment and the Ark of the Covenant—that held the Ten Commandments, a sample of the Manna the miraculous bread from heaven that had fed the Israelites during the Exodus, and Moses' staff that had parted the Red Sea—all were destroyed or stolen by the Babylonians. This disaster haunted the Israelites everywhere with the thought that God had abandoned them, that it was all over for them as a people chosen by God.
53. Did the Jewish people give up hope? The devastating experience of the Exile did not defeat their spirit. The Exile led to deeper, more serous reflection on the words of the prophets and prompted a sincere repentance. They realized that rather than God having abandoned them, they had been the ones to abandon God by not keeping the Commandments.
54. How did religious expression change during the Exile? Instead of losing heart because they no longer had the Temple in which to offer sacrifice to God, the Jews began to worship, pray and study in their homes and began what would later evolve into the Synagogue (and even later become incorporated into the Christian Liturgy of the Word). Observance of the sacred day of rest and worship became extremely important because it marked them as different from the Babylonians who carried on their business everyday.
55. What is this weekly day of rest and worship called? The Sabbath. Observance of the Sabbath reminded them that they were a people chosen by God, given a promise by God and never abandoned by God.
56. What other new developments took place during this period? The Jews were purified by their experience in exile. They became closer to God and began to realize that God was making a new covenant with them, one written not on tablets of stone, but on their hearts. The Jews became the "People of the Book." They collected their ancient writings, prayers and oral traditions into a coherent story that told of the origins of themselves as a people specially chosen by God. These Hebrew Scriptures (our Christian Old Testament), called the Torah and the Prophets and the Writings, told the wonderful history of God's covenant with the Jewish people. It allowed the Jews to pray and worship and study God's promise to them wherever they lived.
57. Did the Jews remain in Babylon? No, about 50 years later the Persian Empire conquered the Babylonians. The Persians were more benevolent rulers and allowed the subjects in their far flung empire self rule. The Persian Emperors Cyrus and Darius invited the Jews to return to their homeland and rebuild the society. They even gave them money and supplies and returned some of the Temple equipment that the Babylonians had plundered.
58. Who are the Remnant? Not everyone wished to go back to the Promised Land because they had assimilated over the two generations in Babylon. A small group of a few thousand returned to begin rebuilding Jerusalem. They are called the Remnant. They found a wasteland upon their return, and much of the good land taken over by other peoples. They were only able to rebuild a small portion of their original territory, and a much smaller Jerusalem and Temple. In fact the people were upset because everything seemed so dreary and difficult.
59. Did the Remnant succeed? Eventually, under the leadership of strong Jewish governors educated in the Persian Empire, Judah once again became a flourishing society, but their independence did not last long. After Persian was defeated by Alexander the Great, the Greek Seleucids became their cruel overlords for the next 300 years.
60. What happened to the Jews under the Greeks? Some of the most powerful stories of Jewish courage emerged from this period of oppression and persecution as the Jews fought to hold on to their traditions and keep the covenant in the face of forced assimilation into the Greek polytheistic lifestyle. Under the leadership of the Maccabean brothers (the Hammers), the Jews won their independence for the next 70 years.
61. What does the Jewish feast of Hanukkah celebrate? The Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, celebrates the rededication of the second Temple to God after the Greeks had defied it with idol worship.
62. How did the Jews come under the rule of the Roman Empire? 63 years before the time of Jesus, the Promised Land, called Palestine by the Greeks, came under the rule of the Roman Empire.
63. What is meant by the word "Messiah"? The Messiah is the Hebrew word for "the anointed one" and refers to the coronation of an Israelite king by pouring oil over his head. Anointing also referred to the pouring out of God' spirit upon a judge or a prophet. Pouring oil over the head also accompanied the rite of consecrating Israel's priests. Thus Messiah means someone especially singled out by God as the leader of Israel. The word has strong references to the anointing of King David, the premier king and spiritual leader of Israel in its days of glory.
64. Why did Israel long for a new Messiah? Some of the prophets writings pointed to the coming of someone sent by God to bring lasting joy and peace to the people. Most Jews thought that this anointed one, or messiah, would come from the line of David, since God had promised him that his throne would last forever. David was the beloved king who had united the people, extended Israel borders and brought the Ark of the Covenant—God— to Jerusalem. The people saw the coming of the messiah as the fulfillment of the Covenant promises—the they would be a great nation and bring the blessing of peace and prosperity to all the world.
65. Did everyone agree on who the messiah would be? The Jews had a variety of ideas about what this savior would be like. Most expected a great military leader like David, who would triumphantly restore their political power. However, a few like the prophet Isaiah, spoke of a suffering servant who would save the people by suffering for them.
66. What was society like in Palestine during the Roman period? Many factions and power groups were active within Jewish society.
• The Sadducees rigidly followed the laws of Judaism according to the lette of the law as written in the Hebrew Scriptures. As a priestly class, they were also committed to proper worship and the offering of daily sacrifices in the Temple. They compromised with the Romans in exchange for privileged positions of power.
• The Pharisees believed that the Law could be interpreted and expanded to better direct the lives of the people in every detail. They added so much burdensome fine tuning of the Law that Jesus would later come into conflict with them during his ministry.
• The Zealots were revolutionaries zealous to overthrow by force the Roman government.
67. What were the social classes at the time of Jesus? Social standing was based to a great extent on wealth. A wide gap separated the relatively few rich people from the many who were poor. A small but significant middle class existed, consisting of shopkeepers and skilled tradesmen like carpentry and fishing. A great imbalance existed also between the rights of men and those of women. Israel was a patriarchal society in which all rights and property belonged to the fathers of households. The daily social and religious lives of men and women were to a large extent separate—women could not eat or worship with men and could not leave the house alone.
68. Who were the Samaritans? The Samaritans traced their origins back to the northern tribes of Israel, to those Jews who had managed to remain in Israel during the first dispersion forced by the Assyrians. The Samaritans were not accepted as true Jews because in the northern Kingdom of Israel they had set up a rival temple and their worship had absorbed many polytheistic forms from their Canaanite & Assyrian neighbors with whom they had intermarried.
69. Who else were considered outcasts? People with leprosy and other diseases, and simple poverty were seen as signs of punishments by God for personal or family sins.
70. What happened just after Jesus? In 67 A.D. the Jews revolted against the Romans and the Romans retaliated with such force that they utterly destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple was razed to the ground in 70A.D. The Jews were once against forced into exile and the Romans rebuilt Jerusalem as a Roman city, with little trace of the Jews long history there.
Chapter 4 Jesus: Revealing God in Humanity p. 87
1. Who do Christians believe Jesus is? Christians believe that Jesus is the Christ—Greek for "messiah" or the anointed one. They also believe that Jesus is the incarnated Son of God.
2. What is meant by "incarnation"? The doctrine of incarnation expresses the Christian belief that Jesus is God's own son mad present in human flesh, that the second Person of the Holy Trinity was born of a woman in order to become "God with us"—Emmanuel—and be our true messiah or savior. The awesome reality of the incarnation gives human beings the opportunity to become participants of the divine nature.
3. Is Jesus God or a man? Christian doctrine states that Jesus is both God and man, that there is a mysterious union between his divine and human natures so that he is fully and completely divine and human at the same time.
4. What is grace? Grace is God's life and love poured out in us for the purpose of sustaining us and drawing us closer into the life of the Trinity.
5. What is sin? Sin is the willful turning away from God; sin is ignoring God and insisting on having things one's own way.
6. Why did God take on humanity? God became human in Jesus so that he could walk along the roadways of life with us, so that he could experience life with us and therefore transform all of human experience from its slavery to sin. He became human in Jesus so that we might have a living role model of human life lived as God intended.
7. How is this mystery expressed in the Gospel of John? The Gospel of John expresses this mystery as Jesus' own words: For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.
8. In becoming human, was Jesus like us in all ways? In becoming human, Jesus became like us in all ways except that he did not sin. He experienced all the joys of life, as well as all the pain involved in being human—the stress, loneliness, anger, frustration and longing for acceptance. But he chose to never respond sinfully to these human experiences. He responded with humility.
9. What is humility? Humility is a total openness to the call of God that is the exact opposite of sinful self-centeredness. Humility involves taking life as it comes, not grasping at control, seeking the best interests of others, even when that seems to conflict with one's own interests, and accepting the legitimate authority of God over creation and history.
10. According to the Gospels, what will we discover if we accept Jesus? We will discover that Jesus is more than a man—a remarkable teacher, a loving guide, a generous friend and a gifted healer. We will discover that he is the true messiah, savior and son of the living God.
11. How did Jesus' life and mission begin? Jesus was not conceived in the usual way, but by the power of the Holy Spirit. The event is called, the "Annunciation" because the Angel Gabriel announces God's intentions to a young Jewish girl named Mary, who thinks over God's rquest that she mother the Messiah, and then accepts.
12. Was Mary married? No, Mary was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph. When she was discovered to be pregnant before the wedding, there was great concern and Joseph almost called off the wedding. Mary had to be very courageous to be the mother of God's son.
13. Who was Joseph? Joseph was an obscure descendent of David's family tree, who came from Bethlehem, the town where David himself had been born. He was a good man who had entered a covenant to marry Mary.
14. Why didn't Joseph "quietly divorce her," as he had first resolved to do? Because Jewish law called for the townspeople to stone to death a woman caught in adultery—as Mary's out of wedlock pregnancy certainly seemed to indicate, Joseph did not want to bring public attention to his problem. While trying to figure out how to handle the matter, Joseph received a visit from an angel in his sleep who explained everything to him, and urged him to go through with the marriage.
15. Where was Jesus born? The Roams called for a census and required everyone to return to their hometown to register. While in Bethlehem to register for this census, Mary gave birth to Jesus in a stable because there was no room for them in the hotels due to all the people in for the census.
16. What do we learn from the Gospels? Luke's account let's us know that Jesus came as a source of hope for all poor people and those on the fringes of society,
Matthew's story adds the insight that Jesus came as a light to the nations.
17. Who was John the Baptist? John was the cousin of Jesus and a wandering prophet who preached a message of repentance. John had a sense that things were about to change drastically and he wanted people to get ready for what was to come by being baptized—ritually washing themselves clean in the River Jordan.
18. Why does John baptize Jesus? When Jesus came to John at the Jordan, John recognized that he was greater than himself and not really in need of baptism, but Jesus insisted. In the Gospel of Matthew we are told that when Jesus stood up out of the water the heavens opened up and the Spirit of God descended upon Jesus like a dove, and a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved son, in who I am well pleased."
19. How does this affect Jesus? Jesus became aware that the great mission of his life was now beginning. The great impetus of the spirit that anointed him at his baptism drove him into solitude in the desert to fast and pray.
20. How long did Jesus stay in the desert? Jesus was in the desert for 40 days, and underwent trials and temptations not unlike those the Israelites experienced during the Exodus. Jesus was tempted by the devil three times to give up his complete dependence on God and accept the easy and attractive forms of power he offered.
21. Did Jesus give in to these temptations? No, Jesus prevailed in his struggles with temptation because he kept his focus on the only true source of power that would sustain him during his ministry, the source who had spoken deep into his heart the message, "You are my beloved son." Rather he was filled with the Spirit of God and unshakeable sense of purpose.
22. What was among the first things that Jesus did when he began his ministry? One of the first things Jesus did was to gather a community of disciples around him people who would learn form him and carry on his mission after he was gone.
23. Who were in this community of disciples? The closest dispels were called the Twelve—the men we call the Apostles. They were regular local men—fishermen mostly, a tax collector, a scribe, a zealot. The Gospels report that these men left everything to follow him.
24. What was the mission given by God to Jesus? Jesus passionately proclaimed the reality of the Kingdom of God. Jesus proclaimed that unlike the glorious political reign they imagined the messiah would usher in, the Kingdom of God was a rule of love and justice.
25. How did Jesus address God? Jesus called God Abba—Dear Father, or "Daddy" or "Papa." He knew that the One who had tenderly called him beloved son at his baptism was also the God of his ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of David, who had promised salvation to Israel.
26. How did Jesus teach his disciples to pray? Jesus taught his disciples to pray to "Our Father."
27. What does it mean to live in the kingdom of God? Living in the kingdom means living in the Father's love, and letting it be the guiding element behind social and community life.
28. In a nutshell, what was Jesus message? Jesus powerful message was that God is our Father and that we are all loved by God.
29. What are the signs that the Kingdom of God is near? Jesus was the embodiment of the Kingdom of God—God's rule of justice on earth. Jesus is God's love for us become human. Therefore everything Jesus said and did is for us a sign of the kingdom:
• Healing and life-restoring miracles
• Nature miracles – the miracle reveal that God's love is compassionate, that when faced with suffering, heals and when faced with chaos, restores order and calm
• Inclusion of outsiders –he stood up for people who had no power and no esteem for others
• Love of enemies – Jesus forgave those who persecuted and betrayed him.
• Confronting hypocrisy and religious legalism – Jesus loved the Law but could not bear to see it abused as a way to control people and put them down. He demonstrated God's love for all by challenging hypocrisy and showing that religious legalism had no place in God's kingdom—that the law was made to serve mankind, and not for mankind to serve the law.
30. In the kingdom of God as Jesus lived and taught it, the usual values and priorities of the world are turned upside down. Those who have less really have more. Those who seem rich really are poor. A person who wants to lead must first become a servant. Those who want to save their life, must first lose it.
31. How did Jesus teach about the Kingdom? One of Jesus most effective ways of teaching us about the kingdom was in the form of Parables—intriguing little stories that aroused people's curiosity and then delivered a point they were not expecting. These stories used familiar images and concerns of his day. Two famous parables were the parable of the lost sheep and the parable of the good Samaritan.
32. What was the main point of these parables? Jesus point in telling these stories was to explain the nature of the kingdom to his listeners and to get across the message that God's kingdom is for all who are open to God regardless of what they own, how much power they possess. Or what position they hold in society. He also lets us know that entry into the kingdom will cost us everything we have, and so the poor have an advantage—because they have so little to give up!
33. What kind of response does Jesus expect from his followers? Jesus demands a response to our encounter with him. Jesus told us to turn the other cheek when confronted with violence, to humble ourselves and to serve each other. He told us to sell everything and give to the poor.
34. How did the people of Jesus' day react to his radical message? Many of the Jewish people, especially the poor, found his message irresistible because he offered them the kind of freedom that could not be gained from wealth and war. However, those in power were threatened by his message and refused to accept Jesus as the messiah they were waiting for. They were angry at his criticism and charge of hypocrisy. He threatened their base of power by stirring up the people's desire for freedom and dignity. Eventually a plot was arranged to get rid of Jesus by executing him as a criminal;. He was crucified, he died, and buried. But that was not the end of the story—only the beginning.
ESSAY QUESTION SELECTION
CHOOSE 1 ESSAY FROM EACH CHAPTER SECTION. RESEARCH YOUR ANSWER BEFOREHAND. NO NOTES PERMITTED AT TEST TIME
Chapter 1 Essay Question Choose 1 (5 points)
Answer the question you choose in paragraph form in the essay booklet provided. Write in complete, grammatically correct sentences. Correct spelling is important.
A. What are some questions many people begin to ask during adolescence?
B. What are the three crucial tasks of adolescence?
Chapter 2 Essays Choose 1
Write your answer in complete sentences.
A. Explain some of society' answers to life's longings, including:
1. Popularity 2. Consumerism 3. Individualism 4. Immediate Gratification 5. Sexual Permissiveness 6. Technological Fixes
B. What are some metaphors we use to describe God?
C. How are faith and religious practice alike and different?
Chapter Three Essays Choose 1
Answer in complete sentences in paragraph form.
1. What effect did the Babylonian Exile have on the Judahites?
2. What religious developments took place during the Exile?
Chapter Four Essays Choose 1
Write your answer in complete sentences in the essay booklet.
1. What are the signs that the Kingdom of God is near?
2. What kind of response does Jesus expect from his followers?
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Second Quarter 2007
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Monday 12/17 Day 4
Read text p 100-103, The Public Ministry of Jesus
Friday 12/14 Day 3
Read p 97-99 "Jesus is Born, His Early Years, Baptism in th Jordan and Tempted in the Desert"
Answer Review Questions 1-4, p 99
Thursday 12/13 Day 2 Early Dismissal Periods 1,2,7,8
Go over review questions p 94
Read p. 95-96 "Jesus Life and Mission Begin"
" Mary, Full of Grace"
Wednesday 12/12 Day 1 No class
Tuesday 12/11 Day 6
Read text, p 91-94
God's Longing to be with us-the Incarnation
Answer Review Questions 1-4, p 94
Monday 12/10 Day 5
INtro Chapter 4,p 87-90
Copy Chapter Outline into notes
Friday 12/7 Pep Rally, No classes
Thursday 12/6 Day 4
Test on Chapter 3, Part 2 Essays
Wednesday 12/5 Day 3
Test on Chapter 3 (open Book) Part 1, Multiple Choice
Tuesday 12/4 Day 2
Read Text p 82 Review Questions
Monday 12/3 Day 1 No class
Friday 11/30 Day 6
Quiz
Thursday 11/29 Day 5
Read p 79-81
Wednesday 11/28/Day 4
Read p 78-79
Tuesday 11/27 Day 3
Read p 76-77
Monday 11/26 Day 2
Read text p 74-75, "Crushing Defeat & Exile"
Answer Questions for Review 1-4, p 77
Wednesday 11/21 Thanksgiving Service
No class (Day 1)
Tuesday 11/20 Day 6
Prayer
Read Text p 70-73, "The Promised Land"
Discuss Question 8, p 73
Answer Questions for Review 1-3, p 73
Monday 11/19 Day 5
Prayer
Read Text p 66-70, "From Slavery to Freedom"
answer Questions for Review 1-4, p 70
Friday 11/16 Day 4
Prayer
Read Text "The Beginnings of a People" p 63-65
answer Questions For Review 1-4, p 65
Thursday 11/15 Day 3
Prayer
Read Text p 61-62
Answer Questions For Review 1-3, p 61
Answer Question 2 to hand in
Wednesday 11/14 Day 2
Introduction to Chapter 3, p 59 "Judaism-Dscovering Our Religious Roots"
Read Text, p 59-60
Answer Question 1, p 60 to hand in
Monday 11/13 Day 1 No Class
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First Quarter
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Monday 9/10/07 Day 1 No class
Tuesday 9/11/07 Day 2
1. Introductions, greetings and salutations!
All students are required to bring the following items to every class:
New Testament Textbook
3 subject notebook with pockets
assorted colored highlighters
dark blue or black pens
Grading Rubric:
* Class Participation - 50%
students are graded daily on preparedness, participation, assignment completion, behavior, courtesy,compliance with school and class rules, etc.
* Test, Quizzes,Projects - 50%
frequent, unannounced short quizzes, announced chapter tests, occasional individual & group projects (both in class & homework
2. Homework Assignment due tomorrow!:
Bring in a small rock
Wednesday 9/12/07 Day 3
1. Stone Identification Activity
1 Students learn about their uniqueness through the metaphor of the stones
2. Write: Responses to the exercise in notebook
Thursday 9/13/07 Day 4
1. Prayer: Commitment Ritual
Using the stones
2. Read Text Chapter 1: Identity and Development-
Becoming Who You Are Called To Be, p 7-10
3. Homework Assignment due Monday 9/17: Project-
Question 1, p 8 Parent Interview "My Origins"
Question 2, p 9 "Four Photos of Me"
-On a poster titled "Unique in All the World"
-4 pictures of yourself from different ages,
placed in the corners, underneath each pic, write a word or phrase that describes what you were like then.
-In the center place your 8x11 typewritten or neatly handwritten 1 page composition on "My Origins"
-Write your name and class on the back of the poster.
Friday 9/14/07 Day 5
1. Prayer
2. Read Text: A Question at the Heart of
the Journey p 11-12
The "If Only" Test, p 13
3. Complete Hand-out 1:A "A Matter of Pride"
3. Answer Questions for Review 1-3, p 12
Monday 9/17/07 Day 6
1. Prayer
2. Review answers to questions 1-3, p 12
3. Students share their poster (Activity 1 & 2)
Tuesday 9/18/07 Day 1 No Class
Wednesday 9/19/07 Day 2
1. Prayer (Serenity Prayer, text p 13)
2. Conclude sharing "Unique in All the World"
Poster Projects
3. Read Text "Adolescence: Journeying from Childhood
to Adulthood," p 13-14
4. Definitions: adolescence-period of one's life when one moves from the comfort and security of one stage of lie-childhood- to the unknown of another stage of life-adulthood.
adolescence begins with puberty and ends with gaining social status of an adult
puberty-is the physical event that results in our being able to reproduce sexually.
Thursday 9/20/07 Day 3
1. Prayer
3. Read text "Scenes from the Journey," p 15-16
3. discussion; Questions 7, 8
Friday 9/21/07 Day 4 (C schedule-Short Periods)
1. Prayer
2. Discuss Mass Experience, write thank you notes
to Fr. Charles
2. Conclude discussion on text, p 15-16- question 9
Monday 9/24/07 Day 5
1. Prayer
2 Read text "Dramatic Changes at Every
Level of Life," p 17-20
3. Complete Hand-out 1-B "Telling Our Body's Story"
for credit
Tuesday 9/25/07 Day 6
1. Prayer
2. Open Dicussion- Question 13, p 20
Read Text "The Crucial Tasks of
Adolescence", p 20-22
-the developmental tasks that must be accomplished by all young people if they are to move into adulthood:
1. a capacity for friendship
2. a health sexual identity
3. a more mature parent-child relationship
Wednesday 9/26/07 Day 1 No class
Thursday 9/27/07 Day 2
1. New Prayer- Hand-out packet 1-E
2. Answer Review Questions 1-3, p 22
3. Read Green Box, p 23 "The Qualities and Skills
of Friendship"
4. Copy p 23, into notes
Friday 9/28/07 Day 3
1. Prayer
2. Complete Hand-outs 1-C - The Gender Spectrum
1-D - Communication in my Family
***Chapter 1 Test (page 7-23)
Scheduled for next Tuesday 10/02***
Monday 10/01/07 Day 4
1. Prayer
2. Review -copy class notes into notebook
Tuesday 10/02/07 Day 5
1. Prayer
2. Pre-Test on Chapter 1
Wednesday 10/03/07 Day 6
TEST on Chapter 1, p 7-23
Thursday 10/04 Day 1 No Class
Friday 10/05 Day 2 (Short periods)
1. Prayer
2. Read Text Intro "Finding Answers to
Life's Longings" p 24
Monday 10/08 Columbus Day, No School
Tuesday 10/09 Day 3
1. Prayer
2. Read Text page 24-28
Society's Answers:
1. popularity
2. consumerism
3. individualism
4. instant gratification
5. sexual permissiveness
Wednesday 10/10 Day 4
1/ Prayer
2. Continue reading text p. 27-31
3. Answer Review Questions 1-3, 31
Thursday 10/11 Day 5
1. Prayer
2. Complete Hand-out 1-F "Out Culture, Ourselves"
3. In-class Project- Minding the Media
Introduction:outlining the project
distribution of research materials
Friday 10/12 Day 6
1. Prayer
2. In-class Project-Minding the Media
Each team will analyze 5-10 exmples of media:
movies, TV, music, magazine ads
for value content and answer questions
Monday 10/15 Day 1 No class
Tuesday 10/16 Day 2
1. Prayer
2. Continue project research
Wednesday 10/17 No classes
Thursday 10/18 Day 3
1. Prayer
2. Compile analysis results
Friday 10/19 Day 4
1. Prayer
2. Create Newsprint posters for Media project
10/22 Monday Day 5
Class presentations of Media project
10/23/ Tuesday Day 6
1. Prayer
2. Introduction Chapter 2- "Faith; Responding To God's Invitation"
Read "A Question of Worldviews," p 33-35
-What is a world view, how do we get one?
-matters of the head-beliefs and convictions
-matters of the heart-feelings and atitudes
10/24/ Wednesday Day 1 No class
10/25 Thursday Day 2
1. Prayer
2. Read text p 35-36
-Metaphors- means of expression that describe by comparison
-All our descriptions of God are metaphors
3. Activity - "Is God More Like..."
4. Answer Questions for Review 1-2, p 36
10/26/ Friday Day 3
Chapter 1 Test extra credit
10/29 Monday Day 4
1. Prayer
2. Read The Meaning of Faith, text p 37-41
-trust and belief
3. answer Questions for Review, p 42
10/30 Tuesday Day 5
1. Prayer
2. Read text,p 43-45 "When We Do Not Have All the Answers"
-the story of Brenda
-Responding To Tragedy
3. Answer Review Questions 1-2, p 45
10/31/ Wednesday Day 6
1. Prayer
2. Hand-out
3. Read Text, p46 "How Can We Know About God?"
-Signs of God's Existence
1. in the convictions of those who care about us
2. in nature and experience of ourselves as human persons
3. in universl belief throughout history
4. in the experience of being loved
11/1/ Thursday Day 1 No class
11/2 Friday Day 2
1. Prayer
2. Art project: God Symbols
11/4 Monday Day 3
1. Prayer
2. Read text, p 49-51 "Revelation: God's Self-Disclosure"
3. Answer Review Questions 1-3, p 51
11/5 Tuesday Day 4
1. Prayer
2. Read Text, p 52-54 ""FAith & Religious Practice: The Same or Different?"
11/6 Wednesday Day 5
1. Prayer
2. Read Text, p 55-56
3. Answer Review Questions 1-4, p 56
11/7 Thursday Day 6
1. Prayer
2. Read text, p 56-57
- Chapter 2 Conclusion- "A Testimony of Faith"
3. Review Chapter 2 For Test
11/8 Friday Day 1 No class
11/11 Monday Day 2
1. Chapter 2 Test
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