Posted on 11/20/2010 11:38:36 AM PST by mlizzy
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Got popcorn?
That’s a big class.
Even first graders have a lot of really important questions. When I taught 5th grade, I noticed they were extremely interested in angels and Purgatory, so I taught a class just on those topics. You might find you have time in the year to give a class on whatever topic seems most interesting to your students.
Great link Salvation. Much to do about nothing!
Yeah, it’s a good class though.
Let’s see. We’ve been going through the sacraments one by one. Still to cover, Baptism, Last Rites, Confirmation
Still to cover. Mary, Saints, Resurrection, Purgatory, and Salvation
We’ve already gone over Trinity, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, Personhood, and Substance Dualism.
We kinda went into Angels and Purgatory in our class on Substance Dualism, as they asked about the soul. If I have time I’ll spend another class on the topic.
I find it frustrating sometimes because there’s so much to say about all these topics that you can barely begin to cover them. Baptism could be 10 hours, Salvation could be a full semester.
At best, you can get a student really interested and then point him to resources for more in-depth study. I once suggested to our DRE that we should offer an “advanced topics” class for students who have covered the basics exhaustively. Give them something like an AP test, and if they pass, put them in a multi-grade high-level seminar.
It didn’t fly that year, and now I’m in bilingual elementary grades, but maybe someday ...
Yeah, I feel that way too, so I try to hit the basics, and drill it in.
What frustrates me more is that I’ve had to make my own curriculum. The one provided is for all intents and purposes useless. The money spent on those materials could have gone to other pressing needs for the diocese.
And I hate, hate, hate the insets in the bibles for the kids. It makes them hard to use. I’d love to be able to afford to buy real bibles for the whole class, ones that will allow them to find stuff easily.
“You have to remember that it’s in their interests to get people to think the Church contradicts itself.”
Right off the bat, I thought, here we go ago, what’s the rest of the story. And I’m sure there’s more to come.
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