CHURCH ORGANIZATION PROJECT
Objective: Report on a church organization that evangelizes in the spirit of Jesus Christ. (Due WEDNESDAY February 18th!)
You are to select your top 5 choices from the Church Organizations list in your text on pp.78-79 and/or from the list attached to the guidelines (see printable version below). You will be assigned one of your choices or another organization that has a similar purpose.
Guidelines:
*Must be typed or very neatly handwritten.
BROCHURE (Tri-fold) – 30 points
1. Name your organization and contact information (address, website, etc.)
2. State your organization’s purpose
3. Describe the work your organization performs in the related area of evangelization
*Healing – serving the needs of those who are sick
*Service – serving the needs of those who are poor
*Education – teaching and preaching the Word of God
*Prayer and sacraments – promoting particular devotions in prayer life / making the sacraments available to others
4. Solicit (recruit) volunteers to join your organization
5. Include pictures throughout the brochure to illustrate the work of the organization
REFLECTION – 15 points
Type a ONE-PAGE (double-spaced) thank you letter as a recipient of the organization’s service.
*Describe the service you received and how it changed your life for the better!
*Must follow the standard format of a personal letter
Church Organization Project GUIDELINES and ORGANIZATION LIST (printable version)
Church Organization SAMPLE BROCHURE
Make sure you re-read Chapter 6 and go over the Review at the end of the chapter!
Dear 6th graders,
Here are the guidelines for your next project “The Providence of God”. Through this project, you will:
- identify Scripture passages that give us comfort in God’s love and care
- reflect on God’s providence in your own life and in situations that others have experienced around the world
- pass on the message of God’s providence to someone in your life who is facing difficulties/struggles at this time
THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD PROJECT – 45 points
(Due February 12th)
Guidelines:
1. Cover (3pts) – Title, your name, date, pictures/quotations showing God’s love and care
2. Scripture Quotations (7 pts) – Find and copy at least 5 quotations or passages from the Old Testament that speak about God’s love and care for His people.
o Write a 5-sentence paragraph explaining how these Scripture quotations make you feel.
3. God’s Providence in My Own Life (10 pts) – Describe an event or series of events in your life when you knew that God was taking care of you. Include drawings/pictures. (10 sentences)
4. God’s Providence in the World (10 pts) – Describe a situation reported on in the news (TV, newspaper, or internet) that reveals proof of God’s providence for the person/people involved. Include drawings/pictures. (10 sentences)
5. “Let Go, Let God” (10pts) – Write a letter to a relative or friend, encouraging them to trust God and allow Him to take care of them in their physical, emotional, or spiritual difficulties/struggles. Include comforting words from Scripture (make sure to include the Scripture references, i.e., Psalm 62:2-3).
6. Prayer of Thanksgiving (5pts) – Write a 6-8 sentence prayer thanking God for showing His love and care for you throughout your life.
The Providence of God GUIDELINES (printable)
Dear 7th graders,
You should already be well into reading the Gospel of John and one of the synoptic Gospels, preparing your assignments for your project.
Please remember that every FRIDAY, I will ask to see TWO parent signatures on your Project Checklist to let me know that you have completed your chosen sections for that week.
For your reference, here are the document Guidelines and Checklist:
Meeting Jesus Through the Gospels Project GUIDELINES
Meeting Jesus Through the Gospels Project CHECKLIST (for Parent Signatures)
Your final completed project is due FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27th!
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God…” (Jn 1:1)
Please copy the following words AND their meanings from ENG Text p.553 and p.554:
- accept
- except
- all ready
- already
- all together
- altogether
- a lot
- their
- they’re
- there - in or at that place. The first graders can be found playing over there.
*YOU WILL ALSO NEED TO USE EACH WORD CORRECTLY IN A SENTENCE! (cannot use the sentences provided in the textbook)
SPELLING words, definitions, and sentences are due on WEDNESDAY, JAN. 28th!
We are now focusing on the use of figurative language in our poetry to bring emotion and feeling to our writing. Please refer to the poems “Aunt Leaf” on p.790-791 (similes), “Fog” on p.792, and “Life” on p.793 (both extended metaphors).
Here are the guidelines for our next poem “Family Metaphor” (See samples on last 2 slides of Powerpoint):
*Write an extended metaphor for your family.
*Choose an object or a unit to compare your family to.
*Include and describe each member of your family (can include pets) with a metaphor and supporting details
*Type and illustrate!
DUE TUESDAY, JAN. 27th!
Total = 20 points / Due Wednesday , Jan. 28
Instructions:
Look up the website for March for Life http://www.marchforlife.org/
Please type or neatly handwrite (cursive) your responses to the following questions:
- What is the purpose for the March for Life?
- How did the March for Life start?
- Where does the March for Life take place each year? Please respond with the city and specific route (which buidlings do the marchers pass by? SEE March Route)
- After reading the LIFE PRINCIPLES, please summarize the duty of each human being and the duty of society to defend life. (5 sentences)
- What is the letter to President Obama urging him to do? (5 sentences)
- Why is it so important for us as Catholics/Christians to get involved in the pro-life cause? (5 sentences)
- Create a PRO-LIFE collage of pictures, displaying images that honor the dignity of life, from conception to natural death
To prepare for our Poetry Cafe in March, we have begun our study of various types of poems and poetic elements. We will be writing about 2-3 poems per week. Each poem should by typed/neatly handwritten in cursive and illustrated. These poems will be transfered to Powerpoint presentations which will be shown and recited to the class and invited guests (parents and staff) during the three days of Poetry Cafe.
The first poem we wrote – the “Me” poem – was inspired by Walt Whitman’s excerpt from “A Song of Myself”, Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody”, and Walter de la Mare’s “Me”. This poem describes the author without saying his/her name and was written with at least three stanzas with no specific rhyme pattern.
The poem we are currently writing is the “Virtue” poem. This poem was inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “The Courage That My Mother Had”. The requirements are as follows:
- Title: “The (VIRTUE) That My (RELATIVE) Has/Had”
- 3 stanzas, 4 lines each, with an abab rhyme pattern
- Must include at least ONE SYMBOL that represents the quality/virtue of your adult relative
- Due FRIDAY, JAN. 23rd!
7th graders,
If you are interested in seeing some sample Poetry Cafe presentations, please see me during recess/lunch!
Happy writing! =)
Please copy the following words and definitions (Due THURSDAY, JAN. 15):
- Sadducees - political leaders, mostly priests, who did not believe in resurrection
- Sanhedrin - seventy-one Jewish men in Judea who acted as a supreme council
- Zealots - freedom fighters who sometimes used violence to overthrow Rome’s control of Palestine
- Essenes - men who usually lived in desert communities in order to live a pure life
- Temple - the symbol of the Jewish faith; the only place where sacrifices were made
- Synagogue - a town center of prayer, education, and social life; the scrolls of the Torah were read and preached there
- Torah - the first five Books of the Bible; also known as the Pentateuch or the Law
- Sabbath - the Lord’s day; a day of strict rest
- Aramaic - the language of Jesus
- Shema - the main commandment of the Jewish people, which was prayed daily
This SPELLING/VOCAB QUIZ will be combined with the REL Chapter 5 Quiz on FRIDAY, JAN.16th!
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