PSR PROGRAM Goals

Goals: 

• Students will show respect for themselves, families, and friends.
• Students will express appreciation and respect for God’s gift of creation.
• Students will explore the Bible’s message of God’s love and demonstrate a response to that love by how they live as friends of Jesus.
• Students will explore religious holidays and Church customs and rituals.
   

• Respect Differences/Similarities
• Appreciation for life and family
• Tolerance/Forgiveness
• Patience
• Scripture Stories: Creation, Nativity and Holy Family
• Advent/Christmas
• Lent/Easter
• Baptism as the entrance to God’s family/ Symbols of Baptism
• Mass as the weekly celebration of God’s family

Resources:
                                    Allelu 2020

Prayers:
                                    Introduced:      Sign of the Cross
                                                            Our Father
                                                            Hail Mary
                                                            Glory Be
                                                            Prayer to the Guardian Angel
 

Goals:

• Students will express an appreciation of God the Father as Creator and First Person of the Blessed Trinity.
• Students will express an appreciation of Jesus as the Son of God, Savior, brother, friend, and Second Person of the Blessed Trinity.
• Students will appreciate the Holy Spirit as helper, guide, and Third Person of the Blessed Trinity.
• Students will identify Mary as Mother of Jesus and our mother.
• Students will define Baptism as joining the family of God.
• Students will identify the Mass as the weekly celebration of God’s family.
• Students will explore religious holidays and Church customs and rituals.
• Students will explore the Bible message of God’s love.

• • Bible: Stories: Nativity, ministry, death and resurrection
  • Helpers in our Church family: priests and sisters
  • Community
  • Forgiveness
  • Mary as Mother of God and our mother
  • Church tour and church etiquette
  • Liturgical seasons

Resources, Activities, Assessments:

            Text Finding God, Loyola Press 2013 edition

Goals:

• Students will express an understanding of sin and contrition.
• Students will relate Reconciliation to healing and forgiveness.
• Students will express positive feelings towards their experience of Reconciliation.
• Students will express an understanding of Eucharist as the real presence of Jesus in a sacred meal and sacrifice.
• Students will participate actively in the celebration of the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist as the community worship of the church.                         
   

• Forgiveness
• Reconciliation
• 10 Commandments as rules to love God and love other people
• Bible as the library of the written word of God
• Bible Stories: Jesus fed the multitudes, Prodigal Son, Last Supper, Zacchaeus, Good Shepherd
• Parts of the Mass: Liturgy of the Word, Liturgy of the Eucharist
• Baptism as the entrance to God’s family
• Eucharist as the next step in initiation into God’s family
• Mary: Mother of the Church, Mother of God

• Parent/student meeting in preparation for Reconciliation
• Celebration of First Reconciliation
• Parent/student meeting in preparation for Eucharist
• Celebration of First Eucharist

Goals:

• Students will identify the Church as the People of God.
• Students will describe events in the history of the Church and explain how they relate to our own life in the Church.
• Students will relate the Pentecost event and the coming of the Holy Spirit as the birth of the church and express understanding that the Holy Spirit continues to be present in the Church and in individuals today.
• Students will describe and express understanding of the Marks of the church.
• Students will recognize the structure of the liturgical year and its impact on liturgical celebrations.
• Students will express understanding that the Mass is the great celebration of the Church.
• Students will distinguish between various vocations / ministries in the Church and will describe the hierarchy of the Church.

• Scripture: Acts of the Apostles, Miracles of Jesus, Good Samaritan, Old Testament as the story of Covenant, New Testament as story of Jesus life and works.
• Communion of Saints, Mary the Mother of the Church, Our Lady of Guadalupe as Patroness of the Americas
• Marks of the Church
• Trinity, with emphasis on the Holy Spirit
• Sacraments : as initiation, forgiveness, service/ministry
• Celebrate rituals and sacraments of the Church, especially Eucharist and Reconciliation

Goals:

• Students will identify the Creed as the expression of their faith.
• Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the Laws of Love, the Beatitudes, and the Ten Commandments as guides for Christian living.
• Students will identify the Laws of the Church.
• Students will demonstrate ability to locate books, chapters and verses in the Bible.
• Students will identify the Beatitudes and come to imitate them.
  Students will identify the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy and respond to them through actions and words.

• Bible stories: Good Samaritan, Vine and the Branches, Sermon on the Mount - Beatitudes
• Scripture: structure, God as author, writing of books, types of literature
• Ten Commandments as covenant with Moses
• Laws of the Church
• Mysteries of the Rosary as recalling the events in the life of Christ and his mother Mary
• Sin: venial and mortal, personal and social
• Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy
• Appreciation of the liturgical seasons of the year
• Saints, Mary: Assumption, Immaculate Conception
• Pentecost as the coming of the Spirit and the birthday of the Church

Resources, Activities, Assessments:
           
            Text:    Loyola Press Finding God, 2013 edition
                        Bible

Goals:

• Students will explain the meaning of the sacraments and their communal dimension.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist and the Eucharist as central to Catholic life.
• Students will describe the celebration, symbols, and presiders of the seven sacraments.
• Students will refer to and reflect upon Scripture texts relating to the ministry, life, death and resurrection of Jesus.
• Students will describe sacraments as life-giving signs of God’s gift of grace.
• Students will examine the Creed as a summary of Christian beliefs.
• Students will identify and express positive feelings about the Church’s teaching on peace and justice and respect life issues.

• Scripture: Gospels
• Definition of Sacraments and the sacramentality of all creation
• Appreciate the centrality of the Eucharist in the life of the person and the Church
• Grace as a sharing in the Life of God
• Mary: Immaculate Conception as Patroness of the U.S.
• Nicene Creed
• Structure and prayers of the Mass
• Personal response to ministry of Baptism through service

Resources, Activities, Assessments

                       Texts:    Loyola press Finding God 2013 edition
                        Bible

            Assessment:    ACRE  I

Goals:

• Students will describe the structure of the Bible, locate passages, and name the various literary forms in Scripture.
• Students will describe the meaning of “covenant” and how God remains faithful to us in our lives.
• Students will identify the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Old Testament and describe their contributions to the growth of our faith.
• Students will show appreciation for the Bible as the inspired word of God.
• Students will apply the teachings and lessons of Scripture to their lives by responding to the needs of others and by being people of service.
• Students will identify Jesus as the fulfillment of the Old Testament Covenant.

• Structure of the Bible
• Sacred events and significant persons in Scripture
• Literary forms of the Bible
• Concept of covenant
• Ten Commandments
• Prayer: spontaneous, using Psalms and other Scripture
• Social teaching of the common good and dignity of the human person

Resources, Activities, Assessments:

                      Texts:  Loyola Finding God 2013       
                      Bible

Goals:

• Students will express the development of a personal relationship with Jesus.
• Students will identify parables and teachings of Jesus in Scripture and describe how these apply to one’s own faith life.
• Students will analyze the customs and way of life at the time of Jesus.
• Students will show respect for life from conception, through each stage of growth throughout life, to physical death.
  Students will share their time, talent and treasure in service to the community in response to the Gospel call.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of Church history.
• Students will choose to commit themselves to preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation.

Content Topics:          Knowledge / Skills / Values

• Scripture as God’s self-revelation
• Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Suffering Servant
  The Church as a Community of Faith
• Councils and great leaders of the Church
• Witness and service
• Participation in various models of prayer and planning of liturgies
• Saints, apostles, Mary and other followers of Jesus

Resources, Activities, Assessment:

Texts:  Loyola Finding God 2013
Bible

                        Activities:        Confirmation meeting for parents and students.
                                                   Theology of the Body for Middle School Students
                                                   Dynamic Catholic Decision Point – Matthew Kelly