Year 7 RE at STM

Homework is due on Friday 17 October.

This week, 7BK2 will begin work in connection with Black History Month. We will be learning about the Kick Racism Out of Football campaign. (The weeks of action are 16 – 28 October.)

Your homework? To write a poem inspired by your learning in class. You will be learning what the Bible and the Catholic Church have to say about racism, and you will be learning about what footballers have to say about racism in sport. Be inspired to write a poem encouraging people to “kick racism out”!

I look forward to sharing the best poems here on the blog, and perhaps in the More&More school magazine. Do your best!

Here are some Bible passages that might help you:

Exodus 22:21
Leviticus 19:34
Luke 10:25-37
Acts 2:1-13

Homework due on Friday 10 October. (Apologies – the website was down last week, so this homework is late on, and by now all the homework should have been submitted. However, it hasn’t been, so I think it is worthwhile adding here.)

Copy out the Hail Mary, and begin to learn it.

Hail Mary, Full of grace,
The Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God,
Pray for us sinners,
now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Homework due on Friday 3 October.

Prepare your speech on your faith community (or another community that you are part of).

Oral Assessment!

Prepare a talk about your community (church, mosque or other community group that you are part of).

Research your faith community, whether it is Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Buddhist.

Prepare a one minute speech. You may include pictures, photographs or artefacts to support your speech.

Practice and time your speech at home.

Remember this is an oral assessment, so you will be given a level based on your speech, not on your writing.

You may wish to include some of the following points in your speech:

What does your faith community believes?
What is your place of worship is called?
What do you do in your place of worship/What happens in your place of worship?
What might you find in your place of worship?
Information about an important festival in your faith community.
Information about the different vocations in your community.
What are the important beliefs of your faith community?
Why do you think it is important to belong to a faith community?
What symbols can be found in your place of worship?

You can include any other information that you think is relevant.

Image of Catholic Church: Click here.

Homework due in on Friday 19 September.

(Sorry – I was a bit late in putting this on the blog … but because we had a special visitor to the class, I didn’t collect it in, so I will collect it next Friday 26 September.)

Complete the worksheet on What Makes A Good Community.

Describe the actions that made your group work well together.
Describe the actions that meant that your group did not work so well together.
Describe what makes a good community.

Homework is due on Thursday 18 September.

Write a TAPS prayer.

This prayer should have four sections.

Thank you – Write a section of a prayer of thanks to God.
Adoration – Write a section with reasons why we could praise God.
Please – Write a section where you might ask God for something for yourself (supplication) or for others (intercession).
Sorry – Write a section where you confess the things you have done wrong that you feel sorry about.

It would be especially good if you could illustrate your prayer.

We could say some of the prayers in class over the next few weeks.

Homework due on Thursday 11 September 2008.

Your homework is to produce a title page on the topic of community. You should use words and pictures. The title page should be in colour. You can find examples of work from last year’s Year 7s by clicking on this link here. There is also a short animated presentation featuring many title pages from different year groups here, to give you some more ideas. I look forward to seeing your finished pages on Thursday!

The Learning Objectives for this unit are:

1) What is a community?
2) What is prayer?
3) What is the Mass?
4) What do Catholic Christians believe about the Eucharist?
5) What happens during Mass?
6) What communities do you belong to?

Homework due on Monday 16 June.

People often use prayer cards to help them pray. These often feature a brief biography of a saint, and a prayer that is inspired by that saint. Many cards have a picture of the saint on one side, and the prayer on the other. Make a prayer card for your House Saint.

Click the link to download the homework sheet: Prayer Card Homework

St Maximilian Kolbe
St Katherine Drexel
St Joseph Moscati
St Josephine Bakhita

Homework due on Tuesday 20 May.

Your homework is to complete some research on Pope John Paul II. You will be using this information in your lesson on Tuesday, so it is important that you find out as much as possible! I will add some helpful links below.

BBC Site following the death of John Paul II

A timeline showing some “interesting” Popes

The Vatican’s site on Pope John Paul II

Research Homework – Pope John Paul II – This is your homework sheet that I have given you in class today. If you want to print it out again, click on the link.

Homework is due in on Monday 12 May.

You must write an acrostic poem entitled “DISCIPLES”. (You could write this as a comment to share with the rest of us!)

You should write a poem about Simon Peter, the leader of the disciples. This does not have to be an acrostic poem.

You could illustrate your poems with a picture of one or more of the disciples of Jesus.

Remember: an acrostic poem is one where each letter in the title also begins each line.

Dedicated
Individuals,
Serving Jesus throughout their lives …
C
I
P
L
E
S

Since we have missed a few lessons recently, I gave you longer with the last homework, and did not set any this past week. I look forward to receiving great homework from you next week! And remember – on the few occasions I don’t set formal homework, there are always lots of ideas and websites that you can find while browsing through the posts on this blog!