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© 2003 Louis Glanzman
Who do YOU say that I am ?
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Jesus Christ and Christian Scriptures
Religion 10
2007-08
Texts:
The Catholic Youth Bible
Encountering Jesus in the New Testament Michael Pennock
Classroom Requirements:
1. A functional laptop
2. Religion folder or notebook
3. Respectful class attitude and behavior
First Quarter Grading and Requirements:
1. Homework (30%): Readings and assignments from the text.
2. Two Tests (30%): DUE: 9/28 and 10/26. Tests based on class notes and the text.
3. One Assignment (30%): DUE: October 2. Typed, double spaced.
4. Class Project (10%): DUE: 10/26. Will be explained in class.
Assignments Options:
1. Quiet time and journal keeping: Five times spend at least 15 minutes completely alone, with no distractions.
Get in touch with the silence within you.
Listen for the God within you. After each time write a paragraph describing your experience.
Hand in the 5 typed paragraphs.
2. ‘Fast’ from a luxury (T.V., IM, Face book, texting, cell phone, mirrors etc.) for 5 consecutive days.
Write a 1-2 page typed paper describing your experience and what you learned about yourself.
3. Do a good deed of intentional choice. Recalling Fr. Joe's sermon last week about the blind man that all of
the 'important' people ignored, look at your world (family, neighborhood, social circle) and select someone who is often ignored....
an elderly relative, a sick or disabled neighbor, a cousin or peer who is lonely and
without friends. Then go out of your way to do something for or with that person.
Hand in a 1-2 page typed reflection on your experience and what you learned.
4. Discuss one significant event that has occurred in your life. Evaluate in what ways that event
has had an impact upon you. What do you feel you learned from the experience? Upon reflection,
how to you feel or believe that God was with you in that experience, and, or what do you think God
was telling you in your experience? Hand in a 1-2 typed pages.
5. Create a piece of art or a visual representation of some form of suffering that you have gone
through. Write an explanation of your creation. Include whether or not you felt that God was
with you in your suffering. 1 typed page.
6. Write five suggestions for parents as to how they might respond more positively to the growing
independence of their teenage daughters. Discuss these with your parents and ask for their
comments. Summarize their insights and your own reflections on your parents’ thoughts.
Hand 2 typed pages.
First Quarter Units:
1. The Christian Scriptures: authors, dates and content
2. The Process of Gospel formation
3. The Synoptic Gospels
4. Evidence for the historical existence of Jesus.
5. The Gnostic Gospels
6. The Gospel of Mark
7. The Messianic Secret.
8. Movie: Jesus Christ Superstar.
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