Sunday, January 25: Prayer

An oversight in our class itinerary left an unassigned topic for January 25th's class topic. So, I'm choosing the chapter (Chapter 40) on Prayer from the St. Mary's Press Catholic Connections Handbook conveniently online at Google Books.

While our office doesn't have the teacher's materials for this topic, thanks to Google, we have them here.

Prepping the St. Mary's Press Jeopardy-style game is a bit of bear. All the page references are incorrect, and some of the questions are missing in the book. Without the time-expensive correction to the game board, the kids become disappointed with the game — and rightfully so. Without correction, this is like a shell-game, rather than a learning game.

Three questions while waiting:

1. Identify all the places where you can pray to God
2. Identify all the times when you can pray to God
3. Identify all the ways you can pray to God

It may be advanced, but I like this Fr Dubay video on St. Teresa of Ávila and "interior castles"

Full screen presentation of class slides are here: http://kyleskrinak.github.io/catechism/15-01-25/# Please wait for the slides to load, below.

Jan 11, 2015: Who are you, and who is Jesus?

Christ Pantocrator

Reference for this weeks class: 

• https://books.google.com/books?id=Urf7Kv-ZHH8C&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false

Goals for today's class:

• Lead the child to a richer understanding of who he or she is and in relation to each other.
• Take that experience to begin to understand who Jesus Christ is
• Discuss that Jesus is both true God and true Man.
• Divine revelation: Holy Scripture, Tradition and Magisterium 

Today's lesson preparation does leave me wondering — in discussing how Jesus is both truly God and man, the provided text suggests that He had "hurt feelings." This strikes me as odd. Hurt, as in wounded pride? Isn't pride a cardinal sin?

Full screen presentation of class slides are here: http://kyleskrinak.github.io/catechism/15-01-11/#/ Please wait for the slides to load, below.

The Gospels

The focus of today's class — the Gospels:

• Explore "perspective sharing" by developing student's ability to see and understand other points of view
• Emphasize the variation of detail and emphasis in the four Gospels, while recalling God ensures sacred truth of the text through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit
• Immerse themselves in the richness of the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper and learn more about who Jesus is

My slides for today's class:

• http://kyleskrinak.github.io/catechism/15-01-04/#/

Notes:

• NO Game Show Catechism today. I'm simply not in the mood. Besides we have a lot of ground to cover today.
• I'm looking forward to today's discussion. Sixth graders tend to want a too-simple explanation or understanding of an event. This will be a chance to get them to consider alternative viewpoints.
• My son and myself will be "acting" for the "Movies Review" portion. Having my son act out may bring the class out of control, since it's already crammed in that classroom — but, then, the chaos will add a layer of complexity to the student's later noting their recollection of the event.

References:

• http://www.catholic.com/magazine/articles/is-everything-in-the-bible-true