Document

Categories of Books in the Old Testament

This is a list of characteristics to be divided among the books of the Old Testament.

Document

Mind Map: From the Spoken Word to the Written Word

This Mind Map helps students to organize and brainstorm ideas about friends, school, sports, and family.

Document

Primary Source Reader Correlations

This is a list of articles and other sources to accompany student learning as they discover who is Jesus Christ.

Document

New Testament References to Eternal Life

This handout lists Scripture passages to be read by students that reference eternal life and how Jesus makes it possible for us to attain it.

Document

The Parables of Jesus

This handout lists all of Jesus’ parables and their scripture references.

Document

What It Means to Be Human

This handout helps students list characteristics that come from society and from Jesus’ teachings that describe what it means to be human.

Document

Faith in Action

This handout challenges students to create a poster representing the ways they participate in Jesus’ mission to serve others.

Document

God’s Revelation through Sacred Scripture

This handout provides an outline for students to record key points taught by other groups from this section.

Document

Learning about Learning

This handout asks a series of questions to help students reflect on and evaluate the learning in a particular unit.

Document

My Key Relationships

This handout provides a chart for students to list key relationships that are from their church, community, family, and friends.

Document

The Nicene Creed and Commentary

This handout breaks down the Nicene Creed line-by-line and gives each a brief explanation and commentary.

Document

Empathizing (Christianity)

This handout provides several suggestions to help students draw connections between the various denominations of Christianity.

Document

Empathizing (Judaism)

This handout provides several suggestions to help students draw connections between Christianity and Judaism.

Document

Empathizing (The Ancestors of the West)

This handout provides several suggestions to help students draw connections between Christianity and polytheistic religions of the West.

Document

Empathizing (Buddhism)

This short handout provides questions, reflections, and suggestions to help students empathize with Buddhism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Religion in the Modern World with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and religion in the modern world.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Islam with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Islam and Christianity

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Forms of Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in different forms of Christianity.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Judaism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Judaism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting the Ancestors of the West with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and the Ancestors of the West.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Shinto with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Shinto.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Zen Buddhism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Zen Buddhism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Taoism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Taoism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Confucianism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Confucianism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Sikhism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Sikhism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Jainism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Jainism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Buddhism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts several key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Buddhism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Hinduism with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts the key ideas and beliefs in Christianity and Hinduism.

Document

Comparing and Contrasting Indigenous Religions Traditions with Christianity

This short handout compares and contrasts the ideas of god, an ultimate reality, and history between indigenous religious traditions and Christianity.

Document

The Comparative Study of Religions

An introduction to the comparative study of religions.

Document

An Interreligious Interview

This handout offers guidelines for setting up an interview with a person from a different religion.

Document

The Ninety-Nine Names of God

This handout lists the ninety-nine Islamic names for God and poses several questions regarding the list.

Document

"In the Beginning Was the Word"

After presenting John 1:1-18 from the Christian Bible, this handout challenges to students to identify key parts that describe the doctrine of the incarnation.

Document

Images of Jesus

This handout provides many different images and descriptions of Jesus for students to examine and relate to.

Document

Rings of Interpretation

This handout lists six excerpts taken from the Tanakh.

Document

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.

Document

"The Canticle of Brother Sun"

A Canticle prayer by Saint Francis of Assisi

Document

The Haiku of Basho

A compilation of Haiku by Matsuo Basho.

Document

The Sikh Khalsa

The information on this handout provides further insight into the nature of the Sikh Khalsa

Document

The Ten Gurus of Sikhism

This list of the ten Gurus of Sikhism briefly summarizes the key contributions of each Guru.

Document

The Biographies of the Tirthankaras

A list of patterns and themes found in the biographies of the Tirthankaras

Document

Monks

This handout is to be used as students rotate to various stations. At this station, students examine a picture depicting monks in Thailand.

Document

Objects Used in Tibetan Rituals

This handout is to be used as students rotate to various stations. At this station, students examine objects used in Tibetan rituals.

Document

Right Meditation

This handout provides a space for students to write impressions, observations, or questions that arise as they meditate on a statue of Buddha.

Document

The First Sermon at Deer Park

A Buddhist sermon

Document

"The Dance of Love"

A Hindu myth

Document

Helping the Church of Today and Tomorrow

This handout challenges students to reflect on and brainstorm what it would have been like to create Church teachings and rules shortly after Jesus’ death and resurrection.

Document

The Ideal Church: Romans, Chapter 12

This handout lists 26 objectives of the ideal church as presented in Romans, Chapter 12

Document

Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: Hearing and Acting on the Word of God

This handout allows students to complete statements from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

Document

Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: Not Judging Others

This handout allows students to complete statements from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

Document

Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: How to Pray

This handout allows students to complete statements from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

Document

Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: Not Being A Hypocrite

This handout allows students to complete statements from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

Document

Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: Loving Your Enemy

This handout allows students to complete statements from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

Document

Paraphrasing the Sermon on the Mount: Being Salt and Light

This handout allows students to complete statements from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount

Document

The Consequences of Moral Decisions

This handout examines how actions, attitudes, and decisions affect ourselves and the people around us

Document

Who Is Your God?

A reflective worksheet where students identify meaningful definitions of God

Document

A Reference Guide to the Gospel Story

A partial list of scripture references for Jesus’ miracles, parables, important teachings, and life events

Document

Handout: Psalm 23

An adaptation of Psalm 23 to be used in prayer or reflection

Document

Isaiah: The Peaceable Kingdom Is Coming!

This handout offers a brief look at the use of Isaiah’s visions of the kingdom during Advent.

Document

Sacrament Facts

A brief fact-sheet about the seven sacraments.

Document

Parish Council Committee Assignments

This handout assigns students to a made-up Parish Council Committee. Students must then brainstorm ideas and activities to help engage young people in the life of the parish.

Document

For Love Is Stronger than Death

A reading of the Resurrection story from Luke's Gospel.

Document

Called to Share the Mission of Jesus

This small-group activity provides each group with an example of Christ's mission. Groups must answer questions surrounding their particular example.

Document

Scoring "My Responses to Conflict"

This handout provides the scoring that should be used to interpret the accompanying Handout 9-D.

Document

My Responses to Conflict

For this worksheet, students choose which behaviors match how they typically respond to conflict in relationships.

Document

Whom Will You Tell?

Students identify with whom in their life they would share a list of personal pieces of information.

Document

Listening Traps

Students reflect on and answer a series of questions about their listening skills.

Document

Interpersonal Style

Students reflect on and answer a series of questions about their interpersonal style and relationships with others.

Document

Questionnaire on Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS

This handout provides a list of True/False statements about sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS.

Document

Role-play: "I'm Pregnant"

This handout provides two role-play situations in which a couple has discovered they are pregnant.

Document

Opinionnaire on Gender Roles (Part 2)

Students share their opinions in response to a series of statements about gender roles in society.

Document

Opinionnaire on Gender Roles (Part 1)

Students share their opinions in response to a series of statements about gender roles in society.

Document

Word Association

Students identify the different associations with and meanings of sexuality as portrayed in the media, by peers, and from adults.

Document

Attitudes About Sexuality

This handout presents a series of statements about sexuality. Students are to indicate their level of agreement or disagreement with each.

Document

How Much Did You Pay for That?

Students estimate the cost of a list of items needed to live independently. This exercise is meant to help students understand the amount of money needed to survive.

Document

Work Values

On this handout students explore the qualities they look for or want in a job and brainstorm possible jobs that fit those qualities.

Document

Ranking the Prestige of Occupations

Students rank a list of careers based on their importance and prestige in society.

Document

Perceptions of Leisureliness

This handout provides a list of statements designed to help students evaluate the leisureliness of a specific person.

Document

Support for Leisure Activities

This handout asks students to decide which types of leisure activities their peers encourage them to participate in.

Document

Cases to Examine: Leisure or Work?

This handout presents two real-life scenarios for which students must read and answer questions.

Document

Leisure Satisfaction

Students list leisure activities in which they participate before rating the frequency and satisfaction for each.

Document

Goals of Formal Education

Students rank eight possible goals of formal education based on their importance or relevance.

Document

Cases to Examine: Levels of Independence

Students read several scenarios and rank the level of independence demonstrated.

Document

Personality Perceptions of __________

Students choose adjectives from a list to describe a specific person.

Document

About Myself

This handout provides a series of questions for students to answer about themselves.

Document

How Do I Know That I Am Fully Alive?

This handout asks students to rank statements according to their beliefs about what it means to be fully alive.

Document

Cases to Examine: Is This Euthanasia?

This handout provides three situations for students to read and evaluate. Students must decide if the story shows an example of Euthanasia.

Document

Respecting the Earth: Ten How To's

This handout provides ten tips to care for the Earth.

Document

Cases to Examine: Self-respect

This handout provides three situations where teenagers are not fully respecting themselves. Students read the situations and respond with suggestions that demonstrate more self-respect.

Document

Role-plays: Kindness and Truth

This handout provides two role-play situations for students to practice open, honest communication in a kind, truthful way.

Document

TV Truth: Keeping a Record

This handout provides a chart to help students keep track of the types of truths and lies portrayed on TV.

Document

An Inventory on Money Matters

This handout provides a chart to help students keep track of their expenditures during one week

Document

Cases to Examine: What Are We Afraid Of?

Students read several real-life scenarios and explore the many fears, anxieties, and pressures that influence decisions.

Document

The Plight of the Worlds' Children

This handout provides several statistics and pieces of information about the alarming needs of children in our world.

Document

Grandpa and Tim

Read the following story and be prepared to discuss it in class.

Document

Saint Joan of Arc: A Brief Biography

A biography of Saint Joan of Arc.

Document

Peace: A Guide to Win-Win Conflict Resolution

The PEACE process is a way to approach a conflict so that the outcome is a win- win situation, one that ensures that the good of both parties is considered and given priority. PEACE stands for problem and purpose, empathy, …

Document

The Eucharist in Mathari Valley

In 1986, Fr. Jim Notebaart flew to Nairobi, Kenya, to live and work as a missioner. Years later, he told an audience in the United States about an experience of Eucharist as transformation. Read this story and, on a separate …

Document

Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Sequel

Characters: Reader, Narrator, Servant, Levi, Hannah, Isaiah, Simeon.

Document

The Circle of Faith-in-Action

The steps of awareness, analysis, action, and new awareness are explained in this handout.

Document

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, sets the international standard for human rights. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has thirty articles. The following list paraphrases and summarizes the articles from …

Document

Prayer Is...

Read the following descriptions of prayer by various authors. Choose one description that best fits how you see prayer. Or formulate your own description using a couple of these.

Document

Seeing with Faith, Acting in Faith

Read the two pieces of writing below thoughtfully and carefully.

Document

The Prophetic Tradition

Details about various biblical authors.

Document

"In the Beginning Was the Word"

The Incarnation, a core doctrine of Christianity, states that in Jesus Christ, God became fully human while remaining fully divine. In the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1 through 18, we see one of the earliest expressions of that …

Document

"The Dance of Love"

The story of the Dance of Love.

Document

Around the World in More Than Eighty Days

Let’s take a glance around the globe to see some of the missionary efforts that began during the Fifteenth through Seventeenth centuries.

Document

Belief and Violence: The Crusades

A reading about the Crusades.

Document

Islam: Historical Orgins

Islam began almost two thousand years after the start of Judaism and more than six hundred years after Christianity. In fact, Islam, which goes back to the seventh century, began in support of the monotheism of these two religions, and …

Document

The East-West Split

Looking back over the first 1500 years of Church history, the picture is not one of perfect harmony. Political conflicts, religious controversies, invasions, and condemnations created sometimes occasional, sometimes lasting rifts. For the Eastern Church and the Latin Church, the …

Document

The Divinity of Jesus: An Early Christian Debate

A reading about the early Christian debate over the divinity of Jesus.

Document

Handout: The Four Rs of Praying with the Scriptures

Descriptions of the four Rs of praying with Scripture; read, reflect, respond, and rest.

Document

Handout: Building the Table of the Lord

Descriptions of the Eucharist as the source and summit of Christian life, as thanksgiving, as memorial sacrifice, and as the presence of Christ.

Document

Handout: The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

A list of the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Document

Handout: The Holy Trinity

Descriptions of how each person of the trinity is present in the liturgy.

Document

Handout: A People a Body a Temple

Scripture verses about the Church as the people of God, the body of Christ, and temple of the Spirit.

Document

Handout: Gifts of the Spirit

Scripture verses where the gifts of the spirit are mentioned.

Document

Handout: Images of the Holy Spirit in Scripture

Scripture verses where the Holy Spirit appears in in different forms.

Document

Handout: A Week That Shook the World

The events of Jesus’ crucifixion.

Document

Handout: Statements from the Apostles Creed

Statements from the Apostles Creed, which can be cut out.

Document

Handout: Scripture and Tradition

Connections between Scripture passages and Catholic Traditions.

Document

Handout: Being Catholic

Being Catholic: Beliefs, Practices, and Attitudes.

Document

Key Concepts Underlying Catholic Social Teaching

Catholic social justice teachings are based on some key concepts. By applying these concepts to different social issues, the Church makes judgments about the correct direction to follow. In this lesson we look briefly at the following four key concepts, …

Document

Building the Table of the Lord

Descriptions of the Eucharist as the source and summit of Christian life, thanksgiving, memorial sacrifice, and the presence of Christ.

Document

Fourteen Effects of Baptism

A list of the fourteen effects of Baptism.

Document

The Holy Trinity

Descriptions of each person of the trinity.

Document

Phillip's Story

The story of Phillip, an eight-year-old boy with down syndrome.

Document

Beliefs Practices and Attitudes

The beliefs, practices, and attitudes of the Catholic faith.

Document

Aquinas’s Five Proofs for the Existence of God

The Summa Theologica is a famous work written by Saint Thomas Aquinas between AD 1265 and 1274. It is divided into three main parts and presents reasoning for almost all core Christian beliefs. The Summa Theologica is well known for …

Document

Resurrection Passages

Several Resurrection passages from Scripture.

Document

Passion Passages

Scripture passages from all four Gospels on the Passion of Jesus Christ.

Document

Scripture Passages on Morality

A collection of Scripture passages focused on morality.

Document

Paul's Cultural Context

A reading on Paul’s cultural context.

Document

Formation of the Canon

An article on the formation of the Canon.

Document

The Gettysburg Address

A copy of the Gettysburg Address.

Document

Old and New Testament Passages

A chart showing the similarities between Scripture passages in the Old Testament and Scripture passages in the New Testament.

Document

Symbols in the Book of Revelation

A reference sheet for the symbols that are used in the Book of Revelation.

Document

Imaginary First-Century Letters

Two imaginary first-century letters that describe the difficulties of staying faithful to the teachings of Jesus in a culture that rejects them.

Document

Historical Genre Stations, from “The Catholic Youth Bible” Old Testament Teacher Guide

An activity where students read certain Scripture passages and look for illustrations of community and identity, from “The Catholic Youth Bible” Old Testament Teacher Guide.

Document

Using Final Performance Tasks to Assess Understanding

A reading on using final performance tasks in the classroom to assess students' understanding.

Document

God's Story Plotline 4: Reconciliation

A reading on why God, whose love in unlimited, constantly picks out special groups.

Document

The Anointing of the Sick

A reading on the Sacrament of anointing of the sick, with a discussion of how the Sacrament was viewed in the past and how it is viewed today.

Document

All Are One in Christ Jesus

Several Scripture passages that show that all are one in Christ Jesus.

Document

The Disciples on the Road to Emmaus

A scriptural excerpt from Luke 24:13-35.

Document

Thomas Merton and Nonviolence

A reading on Thomas Merton and nonviolence.

Document

Confirmation

A reading on the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Catholic Church.

Document

Principles of Catholic Social Teaching

A reading on the principles of Catholic social teaching.

Document

The Conversion of Saint Augustine

A reading on the Conversion of Saint Augustine, with excerpts from “Confessions and Enchiridion.”

Document

The Biblical Foundation of Justice

A reading on the Biblical foundation of justice.

Document

The Parable of Juan and the Fishbowl

This story is part of the Living in Christ Series. It is a modern day parable that illustrates the necessity and perfection of the Incarnation. There is a PowerPoint that corresponds as a visual aid to the story.