Exploring Catholic Social Teaching
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Lesson Plan<br />
Materials<br />
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Handout A: Law, Justice,<br />
and the Human Person<br />
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Handout C: What Is Right<br />
vs. What Is Legal<br />
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Handout B: A Just<br />
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Handout D: Government,<br />
Hierarchy of Values<br />
Obedience, and Persecution<br />
NOTE: This lesson is designed as a weeklong mini-unit. Before beginning, assign each student one (or<br />
more) of the following saints to research in order to complete the chart on Handout C: What Is Right<br />
vs. What Is Legal. They will complete this assignment on the last day of the unit. (You may also have<br />
each student research every individual on the chart.)<br />
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St. Catherine of Alexandria<br />
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St. Thomas More<br />
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26 Martyrs of Japan<br />
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Bl. Miguel Pro<br />
DAY ONE<br />
Warm-up<br />
A. As you work through the lessons in this unit, pray as a class the Novena for Faithful Citizenship,<br />
available here: SophiaOnline.org/USCCBCitizenshipNovena.<br />
B. Even if you do not normally say the Pledge of Allegiance, say it today as a class: “I pledge<br />
allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands:<br />
one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”<br />
C. Divide the class up into small groups and have each work on an answer to one question of the<br />
following questions:<br />
1. What does it mean to pledge allegiance?<br />
2. What are we pledging allegiance to with this recitation?<br />
3. What is a republic?<br />
4. Why do you think the author of the pledge included the word “indivisible” in 1892? (hint:<br />
think about U.S. history, especially in the 19th century).<br />
5. Why do you think Congress added the words “under God” to the pledge in 1954? (hint: think<br />
about the Cold War.)<br />
6. Why do we emphasize liberty and justice for all in the pledge?<br />
7. Does the pledge mean we put our country above everything? If not, to whom or what do we<br />
owe a higher allegiance?<br />
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