Faith And Life Series: Teacher's Manual Grade 8 - Our Life in the Church

Teachers' manuals provide catechists with complete lesson plans and resources to present lessons in dynamic and interesting ways.
Teachers' Manuals include:

• Lesson Overviews.
• "Chalk Talks" for blackboard use to help teacher visually explain key concepts in the lesson.
• Easy-to-follow directions for classroom activities for each lesson.
• Complete lesson plans with options for five day or one day presentations.
• Prayer experiences for each lesson.
• Copy masters for materials and activities to enrich lessons are provided for unlimited duplication.
• Practical suggestions for using art, photographs, music and questions as teaching tools.
• References to supporting materials and resources.

THEME: The history of the Church--its founding by Christ, its birth in the Holy Spirit, the marks of the one, true Church, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, the saints and the role of the religious and laity up to the present. The structure of the Church Jesus planned, the role of the Magisterium, the clergy, the religious and the laity and our own vocations.
SEQUENCE: Part 1: The Church. Christ's plan for the Church's structure and its necessary attributes; the Church's teaching authority. The early Church: Martyrs, Fathers, Saints and Mary.
Part 2: The Christian in the World. Religious and laity, Holy Orders, Marriage, and family life; call to holiness.
Part 3: The Last Things. Death, Judgment, the end of the world.
AIM: To help the teenager know and love the Church as Christ's Body and the Magisterium as the sure voice of Jesus, so that the young person may be strengthened through his life in the Church to face the confusion and secularism of modern-day society.