Religion 9 Year Plan

Unit 1: Be With Me

Theme: Who do I want to be with?

Activities/Assignments:

-Hawks Virtues Assignment

-I Am Poems
-Red, Green, Yellow light friendship

- Textbook reading: The Attitudes of Friendship The Reuben and Zach story
o Reflection questions p.14 (summative)
- Distribute and introduction or Beatitudes Project (summative)
-Anonymous Compliment Cards

Unit 2: Be Alive!

Activities/Assignments:

- Beatitude Friend
-Beatitude Poster/Newspaper Projects
-Prayers of Thanksgiving
-3rd Party Compliments
-Anonymous Student Prayers
- Prayer Journals (on going)

Unit 3: Be Faithful

Activities/Assignments

o Meditative Prayer
o Prayers of Intercession
o Remembrance Day prayer and veterans lesson
- All Saints Day Nov 1st
o Saint Interview Presentation
- Group reading and discussion questions
o What do I really believe? p. 52-53

Unit 4: Be Loving

Activities/Assignments

o Advent Celebrations weekly

 o Be a Light
o Peace Poles
o Sacrifice/Joy
o I Am Not statements
o Christmas prayer chain

Unit 5: Be Obedient

Activities/Assignments

-4th commandment review

-Family trees (Summative)
-Roles and duties within our families
-Duties within school, community, and churches
-Apostles creed
-Simon Birch (movie) and reflection (Summative)

Unit 6: Be Just

Activities/Assignments

- Social Justice -> what is it? What is our job?

-Research project (summative)
-Classroom service project
- evaluate lifestyle in terms of its ecological impact and identify the correlation between our relationship
with God and relationship with others and the earth.
- St. Valentine -> love/relationships/and us

Unit 7: Be Honest

Activities/Assignments
- Respect for the goods and properties of others
- Truthfulness in relationships
-God is the absolute truth
- evaluate own behaviour in light of the 7th and 8th Commandments.

Unit 8: Be Generous

Activities/Assignments
-How does Jesus model generosity?
-Relating 9th and 10th commandments to our modern times
-Career and life planning
-Grade 9 goal check in, where do we go from here?
-Pure of heart
Unit 9: Be Forgiving

Activities/Assignments
-Define forgiveness
-Modeling forgiveness
Group reading and discussion questions

o Role Playing forgiving relationship

Unit 10: Be Hopeful

Activities/Assignments

-What is hope?
-Who models hope
-Examine 1st commandment as a call to place our hope in God
-Review virtues and Beatitudes