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1 | SEVENTH GRADE | |||
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3 | RELIGION | |||
4 | Note: Within each grade level some standards are italicized in blue. These standards represent “habits” that form students in living a life of faith and witness to the Gospel. | |||
5 | DOMAIN | CODE | ARCHDIOCESAN STANDARDS | |
6 | We Believe - The Creed pertains to what God, our Heavenly Father has revealed about Himself and His plan for our salvation (saving us from sin) and sanctification (making us holy) through Jesus Christ His Son by the power of the Holy Spirit. God has acted first. Faith is our response to what God has revealed. These Truths are gathered together in the Creed. | |||
7 | Revelation | r.b.7.1 | Develop practices to build an ongoing relationship with our loving God | |
8 | r.b.7.2 | Describe one's relationship with God as a life of faith in Jesus Christ and how that life of faith can be lived out through prayer, study, and service. | ||
9 | r.b.7.3 | Recognize that faith is our response to God who gives himself to us | ||
10 | r.b.7.4 | Identify and Explain arguments/"proofs" of God's existence from both the physical world (order and beauty) and the human person’s openness to truth, beauty, moral goodness, freedom, voice of conscience (CCC 31-34) | ||
11 | r.b.7.5 | Explain that we can know of God's existence through reason and through experience (CCC 36-39) | ||
12 | r.b.7.6 | Recognize Jesus Christ as the greatest of God’s gifts to us | ||
13 | r.b.7.7 | Know that God revealed Himself gradually to us in words and actions, though fully by sending his Son; and that our understanding of God continues to grow | ||
14 | r.b.7.8 | Articulate the kerygma (The Story of salvation) in both summary and narrative forms | ||
15 | Sacred Scripture | r.b.7.9 | Explain that God has revealed Himself to us gradually through Scripture and discuss the reasons why God chose to reveal Himself in this way | |
16 | r.b.7.10 | Narrate and relate the importance of key moments in Salvation History from the Bible and the history of the Church | ||
17 | Trinity | r.b.7.11 | Explain how God revealed himself as Trinity, and how this remains the central mystery of our faith. | |
18 | r.b.7.12 | Understand that the Trinity is a mystery that continuously draws us into the divine being | ||
19 | r.b.7.13 | Explain the role each person of the Trinity has in salvation | ||
20 | Jesus Christ | r.b.7.14 | Identify and discuss the role of Christ in salvation | |
21 | r.b.7.15 | Narrate and discuss key passages from the Gospels that reveal Jesus’ ministry | ||
22 | r.b.7.16 | Describe the person and ministry of Jesus Christ; e.g., Baptism of Jesus (Mt 3: 13-17); Jesus Calls the Fishermen (Mk 1: 16-20; Mt 9: 9-13); the teachings of Jesus (Mt 5-7; Mt 25: 31-46; Jn 3: 16; Jn 13-17); The Good Shepherd (Jn 10: 1-10) | ||
23 | Church History | |||
24 | Creed | r.b.7.17 | Explain the Catholic understanding that the Church possesses the fullness of the means of salvation (CCC 816, 824, 836-838) | |
25 | r.b.7.18 | Explain how through her Immaculate Conception, Mary, “from the first instant of her conception, was totally preserved from the stain of sin” | ||
26 | We Worship - This section pertains to the way God continues to make available to us His grace won for us by Jesus' saving Death and Resurrection. We receive God's saving grace in the sacraments which are actions of God to bring us into communion with Him and to strengthen us to remain in communion with Him. He has given us a share in His divine life- for no other reason than He loves us. We need to respond to the grace God gives us in the Sacraments. | |||
27 | Liturgy/ Liturgical Year | r.w.7.1 | Demonstrate reverent behavior in church | |
28 | r.w.7.2 | Understand that liturgy is the work of Christ through his Church | ||
29 | Sacraments | r.w.7.3 | Associate the sacraments of the Church with life experiences; e.g., family meals and Eucharist, forgiveness and Reconciliation, commitment and Matrimony/Holy Orders | |
30 | r.w.7.4 | Recognize sacraments as effective signs of grace given by Christ and entrusted to the Church | ||
31 | r.w.7.5 | Discuss and apply how to use reconciliation in daily encounters | ||
32 | r.w.7.6 | Explore the many facets of the sacramental life of the Church | ||
33 | r.w.7.7 | Reflect on the sacramental actions in Scripture: Rebirth (Jn 3: 1-18); Coming of the Spirit (Acts 2: 1-13); Ritual Meal (Mt 26: 26-30; Lk 22: 14-20; 1 Co 11: 23-26; Mk 6: 34-44); Forgiveness (Jn 20: 22-23); Healing (Jas 5: 13-15; Lk 5: 17-25); Ministry (Mt 28: 18-20); Marriage (Gn 2: 21-25; Mk 10: 6-9) | ||
34 | Eucharist | r.w.7.8 | Recognize the importance of participating regularly in Sunday Eucharist | |
35 | r.w.7.9 | Describe how the Eucharist helps us grow in relationship with God | ||
36 | We Live - Life in Christ is about how we should respond to Jesus' love by the way we live. As his brothers and sisters, we should love as he has asked. The moral life is not an arbitrary list of rules, but laws of love that help us to know how to live and stay close to Jesus. Living life as Jesus asks us to leads to true joy and peace | |||
37 | Dignity of the Human Person | r.l.7.1 | Explain that God desires and initiates a relationship with each person because we are created by God and for God (CCC 27) | |
38 | r.l.7.2 | Recognize the Beatitudes and the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy as guidelines for living a happy life and apply them to one's own life (Mt 5: 3-12, 25: 31-46; Jn 13: 1-20) | ||
39 | The Human Community | r.l.7.3 | Communicate the nature of justice and its relationship to peace | |
40 | r.l.7.4 | Explain that God calls the Church and all its members to the work of the Kingdom and to care for all that he has created | ||
41 | r.l. 7.5 | Recognize actions that demonstrate how a Christian should respond to social, economic, and political situations | ||
42 | r.l.7.6 | Articulate and provide positive and negative examples of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching | ||
43 | r.l. 7.7 | Identify passages from Scripture that model how we are to behave toward others e.g., Mt 19: 13-15; Mt 19: 16-24; Lk 10: 29-37; Lk 10: 38-45; Jn 13: 12-16; Jn 15: 8-10 | ||
44 | r.l. 7.8 | Explain how Mary is the model of Christian holiness | ||
45 | r.l. 7.9 | Infer how God's power and justice are evident in Mary's response to Elizabeth in the "Magnificat." (Lk 1:46-55) | ||
46 | Grace | r.l. 7.10 | Personalize natural law (a moral law that can be known in principle by every person by reason) | |
47 | r.l.7.11 | Identify grace as the power by which we live out the moral life | ||
48 | r.l.7.12 | Understand that our attitudes toward our neighbor reflect our acceptance or refusal of grace | ||
49 | Virtue, Sin, and Forming Conscience | r.l. 7.13 | Define and explain hope as the theological virtue by which we desire the Kingdom of heaven and eternal life as our happiness | |
50 | r.l. 7.14 | Describe how external factors can form the conscience and signal what is right and wrong, as well as how to behave | ||
51 | r.l. 7.15 | Associate one’s growing sense of moral understanding as part of an emerging identity | ||
52 | r.l. 7.16 | Identify and explain the three sources of the morality of human acts: object, intention, and circumstance. | ||
53 | r.l. 7.17 | Understand that the reality of sin is impossible to ignore | ||
54 | r.l. 7.18 | Understand that social sin is cooperating in another’s sin either directly or by doing nothing | ||
55 | r.l.7.19 | Distinguish guilt from harm. | ||
56 | r.l.7.20 | Explain how we are to form our conscience well: following the Word of God, the Church's teaching, the advice of competent people, and the Holy Spirit's inner prompting | ||
57 | The Ten Commandments | r.l. 7.21 | Connect natural law and its expression in the Ten Commandments | |
58 | r.l. 7.22 | Understand that intentional euthanasia goes against the Fifth Commandment | ||
59 | r.l. 7.23 | Understand that Fifth Commandment teaches us that terrorism and torture are gravely wrong | ||
60 | r.l. 7.24 | Understand that the Fifth Commandment teaches that although innocent human life can never be deliberately taken, there is a legitimate right of self-defense for the individual and society | ||
61 | r.l. 7.25 | Understand that the Seventh Commandment forbids the misuse of another's goods and requires us to keep promises and contracts | ||
62 | r.l. 7.26 | Understand that the Seventh Commandment teaches that we are called to show a preferential love for the poor | ||
63 | r.l. 7.27 | Understand that the Sixth and Ninth Commandments require purity of heart | ||
64 | We Pray - Prayer is an essential way we respond to God who loved us first. Prayer is necessary if we are to know God personally and to do His will. Living the Christian life is only possible with the help of prayer. | |||
65 | Prayer | r.p.7.1 | Understand that prayer is one pathway to knowing God and to deepening understanding of self, others, creation, and God | |
66 | r.p.7.2 | Recognize that prayer reflects human hope for union with God | ||
67 | r.p.7.3 | Explain how prayer can form a relationship with Jesus through both speaking and listening. | ||
68 | r.p.7.4 | Understand that prayer can console those in need of mercy and healing and develop a practice of praying for the sick and dying | ||
69 | r.p.7.5 | Recognize that belonging to a spiritual community includes supporting others through prayer and sharing our spiritual gifts. (1 Cor 12:1 - 13:13) | ||
70 | r.p.7.6 | Recognize and respond to the needs of others in our world through various modes of prayer. | ||
71 | r.p.7.7 | Describe and practice meditation and contemplative prayer | ||
72 | r.p.7.8 | Understand prayer’s capacity for praising God and construct prayers of praise | ||
73 | r.p.7.9 | Review and practice all prayers previously learned/memorized; e.g., Glory Be; the Our Father, Hail Mary, The Angelus,The Memorare, the Anima Christi, Apostles Creed, Act of Contrition, the Rosary, traditional meal prayer(s), etc. | ||
74 | r.p.7.10 | Utilize Scripture as a source of prayer | ||
75 | r.p.7.11 | Articulate how the Our Father summarizes the Gospel | ||
76 | r.p.7.12 | Understand that God, our Father, does not "lead us into temptation" but guides us through them (see James 1:13) | ||
77 | r.p.7.13 | Distinguish that at The Visitation, Mary responded to Elizabeth’s greeting with the words that are known as the Magnificat, the Canticle of Mary (Luke 1:39-55) | ||
78 | r.p.7.14 | Understand and recite The Magnificat | ||
79 | COMMUNICATION ARTS (Updated 2/6/23) | |||
80 | DOMAIN | CODE | ARCHDIOCESAN STANDARDS | PRIORITY STANDARD |
81 | Reading | ca.r.7.1 | Draw conclusions, infer, and analyze by citing several pieces of textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly, as well as inferences drawn from the text | |
82 | ca.r.7.2 | Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative meanings using context, affixes, or reference materials | ||
83 | ca.r.7.3 | Using appropriate text, determine the theme(s) of a text and explain the relationship between the theme(s) and supporting evidence | ||
84 | ca.r.7.4 | Summarize the text distinct from personal opinions | ||
85 | ca.r.7.5 | Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text | ||
86 | ca.r.7.6 | Analyze how specific word choices contribute to meaning and tone | ||
87 | ca.r.7.7 | Analyze how the setting, characters, and plot of a text affect each other and contribute meaning | ||
88 | ca.r.7.8 | Explain how characters and settings reflect historical and/or cultural contexts | ||
89 | ca.r.7.9 | Read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, independently and proficiently | ||
90 | ca.r.7.10 | Explain the central/main idea(s) of a text and explain the relationship between the central idea(s) and supporting evidence | ||
91 | ca.r.7.11 | Analyze how a text's organization or overall structure contributes to meaning | ||
92 | ca.r.7.12 | Analyze how an author develops his/her point of view or purpose and distinguishes it from those of others | ||
93 | ca.r.7.13 | Evaluate an author's argument, assessing whether the reasoning is sound and the evidence is relevant and sufficient to support the claims | ||
94 | ca.r.7.14 | Compare and contrast information presented in different mediums and analyze how the techniques unique to each medium contribute to meaning | ||
95 | ca.r.7.15 | Read and comprehend informational text independently and proficiently | ||
96 | ca.r.7.16 | Explain how contemporary texts make use of archetypal characters or universal themes from older or traditional texts | ||
97 | ca.r.7.17 | Read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions of the human experience (i.e. moral, philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) | ||
98 | ca.r.7.18 | Participate as knowledgeable, reflective, and creative members of a variety of literary communities | ||
99 | ca.r.7.19 | Establish a personal connection within various forms of literature in regards to personal faith, family, and community | ||
100 | Writing | ca.w.7.1 | Conduct research to answer questions by: a. gathering relevant information from multiple print and digital sources b. using search terms effectively c. assessing the credibility and accuracy of sources d. quoting and paraphrasing while avoiding plagiarism e. using a standard format for citation (MLA, APA) | c,e |