Tentative schedule for the week is usually posted at the beginning of the week. By the end of thee week, the schedule is revised weekly to reflect actual class and homework. .
Monday, October 12 Class Collect bookmark. Return tests. Group all past tests. Read and mark chapter three. Homework: Continue to read and mark chapter three. Correct your test and learn from you mistakes later in the week.
Paper clip your first quarter tests. These three should be corrected and should be the major way you prepare for the exam. Remember to really learn, not just memorize. you will be tested on the same material but often in a different way. Pay attention to ALL the questions in the multiple option sections.
Print out
First Quarter Reviewand use it in your study for the coming exam.
Tuesday, October 13 Class You should have read all, or most of chapter three. Do a skeletal outline. Homework: Finish your chapter three work. Finish worksheet for Thursday.
Wednesday, October 14 No Freshman class. PSAT for sophomores and juniors. Homework: Review and study for chapter three test tomorrow.
Thursday, October 15 Class Chapter 3 test. Homework: Correct Ignatius/JP2 test and learn from your mistakes. Begin to study for the exam.
Friday, October 9 Class In class prep for exam. Homework: Study for the exam.
Monday, October 5 Class Pax Christi prayer service. Return father interview and give assignments for week. Go over Ignatius worksheet. Homework:Book Mark assignment, due next Monday. Take home essay on Ignatius and the text due Thursday.
Tuesday, October 6 Class Quick homework check. Frontline video John Paul II. The Millennial Pope from Frontline. View Introduction and Part I: Landscape. Homework: Finish take home essay, due tomorrow. Note the change in due date.
Wednesday, October 7 Class Hand in take home essay, then get it back. Continue John Paul II video, Section II: The Jews. Homework: Take home essay will be returned. Finish it. Have someone proofread it for grammar and spelling and content. Make sure you followed directions on form and content.
Thursday, October 8 Class Hand in take home essay. Continue JP2 video. Section VI: The Culture of Death. Homework: Ignatius/JP2 test tomorrow. Finish up your one page worksheet.
Friday, October 9 Class Ignatius/JP2 test. You can use your one page worksheet/notes. Hand in both. Homework: Finish bookmark assignment, due on Monday.
Fifth Full Week of Classes: September 28-October 1
Monday, September 28 Class (1) Prayer (2) Return tests/answer questions. Homework: Correct tests and learn from your mistakes.
Tuesday, September 29 Block class Class Check Ignatius website homework and test corrections. Read and take notes on William O'Malley, S.J.'s The First Jesuit. Homework: Continue to read and take notes on The First Jesuit.
Wednesday, September 30 Class Discuss Ignatius and his life. Answer questions. Homework: Finish reading and taking notes on The First Jesuit.
Thursday, October 1 Class Guest: 1st period Fr. Cummings and 3rd period Fr. Tran. Homework: Review and make sure all you r work is up to date, especially correcting tests and learning from mistakes. Three day weekends are a good time to consider extra credit. Any extra credit myst be approved by me before hand.
Monday, September 21 Hand in Parent Interview. Make sure it is read and signed by your father. Tell him he is welcome to add a comment if he desires. Class (1) Prayer: Ignatius' Suscipe (2) Prayer Service/this week's CSP canned food drive and the Grad at Grad (3) Return quiz and discuss key ideas. Homework: R/M/S next section in Zanzig, pages 46-51.
Tuesday, September 22 Block class Class (1) Prayer: Ignatius' Suscipe (2) JSEA Survey (3) Skeletal Outline of "How Can We Know God?" (4) Video: Deion Sanders Homework: Finish R/M/S chapter 2, pages 52-57. Study for test on Friday. Use the Ist Quarter Review to guide your study.
Thursday, September 24 Class (1) Prayer: Ignatius' Suscipe (2) Jim Chee and Deion Sanders. How do these men illustrate key ideas of chapter one and two? (3) Discuss and review last part of Chapter Two. Homework: Study for tomorrow's test.
Friday, September 25 Class (1) Prayer: Ignatius' Suscipe (2) Chapter 2 test Homework: Go on the internet and find three important facts about the life of Ignatius Loyola from three different web sites. Make these facts form his life that help you understand the man. Cite your sources. Please type and hand in proper form.
Monday, September 14 Class (1) Prayer: Ignatius' Suscipe (2) Mr. Curdt Prayer Service Colossians 3:1-11 and "four questionsto ponder." (2) Ignatius Two Standards and the Kingdom. (3) What are your most influential societies? What are the dominant values of each, both positive and negative? Homework: Do first draft of your father interview. Get your first ideas down. Here is a favorite quote I ran across this summer: I write in order to better understand myself.
Tuesday, September 15 song: Cassandra Wilson "You Gotta Move" Class (1) Prayer: Ignatius' Suscipe (2) Vocabulary and etymology. (3) first part of a short video: "A Time for Justice" The American Civil Rights Movement will be a recurring topic this year. Also illustrates the idea of negative societal values. Homework: Finish your father interview. Click here for an example of past Father Interview web site. This is good but the first section should have more detail about what his father said and it should be 1.5 spaced or double spaced. And it needs to be signed by his father. Begin to R/M/S Chapter 2, pages 33-36.
Wednesday, September 16 Song Simon & Garfunkel's "He Was My Brother" Class (1) Hmw check (2) Finish "A Time for Justice Video." Dicsus how it illustrates a key idea form chapter one (negative culutral values) and some key idea from chapter two (worldview and faith). Homework: R/M/S Zanzig pages 37- 42. Always be ready for a quiz.
Thursday, September 17 Mavis Staples "We Shall Not Be Moved" Class: Homework check. Discussion of video in light of chapters one and two. Homework: R/M/S Zanzig pages 42-45. Always be ready for a quiz.
Friday, September 18 Song "Take Lord Receive" by the St. Louis Jesuits. Class (1) Quiz. My story and how it influences what I am trying to do in class. Homework: Finish you father interview. Make sure you follow directions.
Monday, August 31 Theology Department Day of Reflection/ Mr. Missey (1st) and Mr. LaBoube (3rd) will sub Class (1) Begin with Ignatius Prayer for Generosity. (2) Fill out Questionairre (3) Read over Class Guidelines. Homework: (1) Read over Class Guidelines" booklet and let show this to your parents. Know the guidelines. You will be expected to follow them. I am open to explaining/discussing even changing any rules or guidelines.(2) Look over the course web site, bookmark it and show it to your parents.
Tuesday, September 1 Class (1) Begin with Ignatius Prayer for Generosity. (2) Bible: the story of the rich young man, Mt 19 (2) Check homework (3) Quiz (4) Snail question: experience of what real learning is all about. Homework: In your spiral, list the biggest changes, the greatest challenges, you are encountering in your transition into SLUH. You should learn Ignatius Prayer for Generosity by the end of this week.
Wednesday, September 2 Class (1) Prayer (2) Bible: The Greatest Commandment (3) Return quizzes/discuss grading (4) Challenges Homework: Correct quiz and learn from your mistakes. correct in a different color pen or box the correct answers. Learn first section in Zanzig and be read for a quiz.
Friday, September 4 class Return quizzes. Talk about how to really get an assigned reading. Homework: correct quiz and learn fom your mistakes. R/M/S pages 14-22 in Zanzig. Time how long it takes. Always be ready for a quiz.
When you do not have any specific homework in a subject, still give 10-15 minutes. Take care of what you did not do or need to do. Learn what you missed. Go over and review all you have done and learned.
Thursday, August 27 Class Group challenge "Seat yourselves in reverse alphabetical order." Greeting and introductions. Prelection: Student Survey. Handouts: prayer pages and letter home to parents. Copy assignment in your SLUH assignment book.
Organization: lockers, daily planner, pen case
Keys to success at SLUH: organization + discipline + openness
"Are you open? Are a good listener?" Bible Reading for the Week & Review. Mass readings of Direction Days
Homework
Bring my letter home and give it to your parents. Read it with them. Skim over the Goals of the course and "What I Really Learned." Give them some time to read it, but bring it back to class tomorrow.
Come to class tomorrow ready to learn. Come to class with:
a two pocket folder which will be used only for this Theology class. Include about 10 sheets of loose leaf paper. Paste the page given to you on to the front of this folder with other side showing. Put your name in the middle of the page.
a one subject spiral notebook, ideally college ruled
text: Understanding Catholic Christianity by Thomas Zanzig
writing utensils (a pencil case is recommended)
Visit my Freshman Theology Course Home Page and bookmark it. Show this to your parents. Check out my course website. I want them to know they can look up what we are doing and what the homework is anytime they want. You all can look at my "All-Stars" and see the semester grades for my freshmen. If you do not have the internet at home, you can do this in our library.
Be open and ready to listen, talk, share, work. Be ready for some kind of �homework check� then offering your reactions, conversations, maybe even reflections, on what you were assigned to read.
Friday, August 28 Class (1) Begin with Ignatius Prayer for Generosity. Know it for the first test. (2) Check homework and assignment book (3) Set up folder and spiral. (4 if time permits) Note some of the advice pages, from recent seniors and from recent freshmen. Homework
Review the booklet of information with your parents.
a) Skim over the entire booklet. Just take in the headings.
b) Read completely pages �How to Get Off to a Good Start� through �Study Tips�. That�s ten pages of big print. On these pages:
Put a √ next to at least four pieces of advice that seem valuable to you.
Put a ? mark next to any you do not understand or wonder about
Add comments where you or your parents desire.
Have your parents sign this booklet but only if they read over this and discussed this with you.
