Special Teacher’s Edition of Celebrating Women Witnesses Resources Geared to Younger Catholics
New Study Guides Include Activities for Independent Study and Cooperative Learning
Inspired by parents, godparents and high school teachers who are using Celebrating Women Witnesses packets for Confirmation gifts, home prayer services and classroom activities, we have developed a special edition of the resource geared to high school teachers, campus ministers and parish youth ministers.
Janet Kohler Claussen, a former Catholic high school teacher and a founding member of the Voices Project, has designed special study guides containing creative and fun activities for independent study as well as cooperative learning. The Voices Project addresses the spirituality of adolescent girls. Claussen has also written a number of books including Biblical Women: Exploring Their Stories with Girls and Seeking: Doing Theology with Girls (both from St. Mary’s Press).
Here are several samples of Claussen's creative teaching strategies:
1.View the movie Mulan. Write a brief paragraph about what Mulan and Joan of Arc have in common.
2.Write an imaginary letter from Perpetua or Felicity to their infant children that the children will open when they are teenagers. How would these women have explained their choice to suffer martyrdom to their children?
3. Using facts from the essay, draw a picture that depicts the kind of building where Prisca and her family worked, lived and shared Eucharist.
4 Listen to a recording of Hildegard of Bingen’s music. Write a review about what you hear and how her music might be appreciated today.
5. Clare of Assisi made a radical choice when she gave up her wealthy lifestyle for a life of simplicity as a religious sister. Write an imaginary dialogue between a talk show host and a famous celebrity who has decided to work as a lay missionary in a poor country or to enter a religious order today.
The project was funded by a special grant to FutureChurch from the Cleveland Congregation of St. Joseph, who have taught Catholic high school girls for many years. If you would like to order this special resource ($10 plus $2 shipping and handling) click here (or call 216-228-0869).
