Exploring Catholic Social Teaching

How to Use This Guide
No textbook or teacher’s guide can replace your own witness. Each and every day, offer students
your own personal examples and stories. Most of all, pray often with your class. Sharing and
modeling how to treat others with respect and charity will help them grow in understanding of
how Christ calls us each to treat our neighbors and engage in the public square.
Each lesson in this Teacher’s Guide has a recommended grade range, but feel free to use them
outside of these suggestions, and/or to adapt them for use with older or younger learners.
Each lesson is designed as a supplement. Lessons are also designed to be self-contained, so that
you may just as easily present a single lesson or all of them. Feel free to choose the version that
would be appropriately challenging for your students.
Each lesson includes:
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Lesson overview, suggested grade level, learning goals
Scripture selections
Connections to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
Warm-ups
Activities and handouts
Formative assessments
Answer keys
Tips
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You know best what your students already know, so keep that in mind when
approaching warm-up exercises, which are meant to recall prior knowledge and/or
create a mindset for the lesson.
Whenever possible, have students use their own copies of the Holy Bible to do readings.
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