The Infusing the Catholic Faith series helps you strengthen the Catholic identify of your school by offering practical and concrete ways to weave Catholic teaching into various subject areas, including Civics, History, and English.
And you can do this without replacing your textbooks!
You Keep Your Current Textbooks: Your textbooks already cover core subject matters, so our guides offer a series of talking points and mini-lessons that enable you to easily integrate Catholic principles into your day’s primary lesson.
Your School’s Catholic Identity is Strengthened: You will begin to see how virtues or vices animate the activities of history’s heroes and villains, and see the role of the Church throughout the development of Western Civilization. Their reading of great works of literature will lead them to a deeper understanding of human nature while cultivating their imagination, intuition, and empathy.
It Doesn’t Break the Bank: You don’t need to purchase expensive texts for your students. Our teacher’s guide provides everything you need to augment the texts you and your students are already using.
We created the Infusing the Catholic Faith series to help teachers respond to the call of the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education to integrate "the different aspects of human knowledge through the subjects taught, in the light of the Gospel; and in the growth of the virtues characteristic of the Christian."
For the first time ever, you have an easy-to-use resource to effectively answer this important call of the Catholic Church.
This supplemental guide will help you integrate into Civics the principles of human dignity and natural rights, as well as the Church’s teachings on the purpose of government, the common good, social justice, economics and more. Each lesson is tied to Center for Civic Education national standards for grades 5-8, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
The Guide covers The Early Church through the late 20th century and includes units on the birth of the Church, the Crusades, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution and many more. Each lesson is tied to National Council for History in Schools national standards for grades 5-8, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Apply Catholic principles to C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.
This supplemental guide provides a fully developed lesson for each chapter of Lewis' beloved story.
The lessons include a suggested timeframe for teaching the book, character lists, chapter summaries and analyses, essay topics, project ideas, and suggested interactive daily activities. Each unit is tied to Common Core ELA standards, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Apply Catholic principles to Rosemary Sutcliff's The Wanderings of Odysseus.
This supplemental guide provides a fully developed lesson for each chapter of Sutcliff's retelling of Homer's epic poem.
The lessons include a suggested timeframe for teaching the book, character lists, chapter summaries and analyses, essay topics, project ideas, and suggested interactive daily activities. Each unit is tied to Common Core ELA standards, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Apply Catholic principles to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
This supplemental guide provides a fully developed lesson for each chapter of Dickens' classic Christmas story.
The lessons include a suggested timeframe for teaching the book, character lists, chapter summaries and analyses, essay topics, project ideas, and suggested interactive daily activities. Each unit is tied to Common Core ELA standards, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Apply Catholic principles to Elizabeth Yates' Amos Fortune: Free Man.
This supplemental guide provides a fully developed lesson for each chapter of Yates' classic story.
The lessons include a suggested timeframe for teaching the book, character lists, chapter summaries and analyses, essay topics, project ideas, and suggested interactive daily activities. Each unit is tied to Common Core ELA standards, as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Enhance your study of the autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux with this chapter-by-chapter guide perfect for Theology or English classrooms, book groups, or individual study. Each chapter study includes vocabulary, reflection prompts, discussion questions, research ideas, and suggestions for further reading. This rich and lovingly researched guide is sure to help your students grow in holiness and closer to the Little Flower.