WELCOME TO GRADE 10 OPEN RELIGION
Course Name: "Christ and Culture"
Course Code: HRE 2O1
This website is for students currently enrolled in Grade 10 Open Religion during the 2010-2011 School Year. Here, you may find items such as assignments, review sheets and some notes that may be available on a day you were absent. If you have any questions about any of the material on the website, please speak with your teacher!
| COURSE OVERVIEW |
This course both invites and challenges the adolescent to personalize the principles that guide Catholics in understanding their role in shaping culture through our discipleship. The exploration of these principles starts with the Scriptural foundations to the questions of what it means to be human and how God has and continues to shape our humanity through culture. The principles are then developed through the gospel themes that reveal how Jesus' Kingdom of God is expressed in all of our relationships: to ourselves, to others, to our civil society, to our Church, and to our Global community.
Students are expected to follow class rules and routines:
- Regular attendance, full effort and committed participation are necessary for success in this course
| CURRICULUM STRANDS AND OVERALL |
By the end of the course students will:
- Develop appropriate skills for interpreting scripture
- Appreciate the use of scripture in Christian prayer and worship
- Demonstrate a profound respect for the dignity of and mystery of the human person, as both blessed and broken (CCC 356-412), created, loved and redeemed by God (CCC 559-618, 651-655)
- Recognize the Gospels as testimonies of faith in Jesus and an invitation to grow toward wholeness by living as his faithful disciples
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the life and teachings of Jesus and identify their importance for life decisions (CCC 512-560)
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of social justice by applying the teachings of Jesus to their own culture
- Demonstrate a brief understanding of the social teachings of the Church
- Apply the church's social justice teachings to both local and global concerns
- Use the preferential option for the poor to analyze social injustice issues (CCC 2443-2449)
- Identify and describe the role and history of the sacraments in the life of the Catholic Church and its membersRecognize the spiritual and sacramental dimension implicit in human experience and the created
- Identify the significance of symbols and rituals in the Church, in various cultures and in every day life
- Identify and assess the value of both personal and communal prayer within Christianity
- Examine healthy patterns of relating with a focus on intimacy and the resolution of conflicts
- Demonstrate an understanding of the various forms of love and intimacy
| UNITS OF STUDY |
| UNIT TITLE | MAIN FOCUS |
| UNIT 1: CALLED TO BE HOLY | Old Testament |
| UNIT 2: CALLED TO JESUS | New Testament |
| UNIT 3: CALLED TO BE AND RELATE | Love, Intimacy and Sexuality |
| UNIT 4: CALLED TO BE JUST | Social Justice |
| UNIT 5: CALLED TO CHURCH | Sacraments |
| ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION |
The Ontario Curriculum, Program Planning and Assessment 2000 specifies that the mark for the course is to be based upon ongoing or term work (70%) and a final assessment (30%). The final assessment is broken down into a final culminating activity (10%) and a final examination (20%).
| Term Work | 70% |
| Final Culminating Activity | 10% |
Final Examination | 20% |
The ongoing or term work will include reflections, small written assignments, literacy initiatives, reports, presentations, quizzes, and unit tests. The final assessment will include a project, and a final exam.
Within these two areas, marks will be obtained using the four categories specified in the Catholic Course Profile for Religious Education, Grade 10 Open.
| KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING | 25% |
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| THINKING | 25% |
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| COMMUNICATION | 25% |
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| APPLICATION | 25% |
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Please refer to St. Edmund Campion's Evaluation Policy for further details
regarding assessment and evaluation.
| RESOURCES |
TEXTBOOK: Christ and Culture, CCCB Publication
The Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version
Catechism of the Catholic Church
| IMAGES |
Literally Christ and Culture - See how many faces you recognize!
| LINKS |
Catholic Graduate Expectations
Vatican (Holy See) Website
Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace